[Bf-funboard] selected/active/colours/etc.

Ton Roosendaal bf-funboard@blender.org
Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:17:22 +0200


Hi,

I'm talking about wire colors!

>  the issue is
> totally confused by reusing the 'unselected object' colour (yellow)

Do you mean the tiny object center... the color of that one has no  
meaning yes.
But you're hardly aware of that... I made it yellow just to make it  
stand out among the black wires...

> as the
> 'selected vertices' colour. If you want to show the relationships, a  
> better
> system would use more than 2 colours, such as:
>
> unselected object colour ->
> selected/active object colour | deselected obData colour ->
> selected obData colour.

unselected Ob = black
selective/active Ob = purple
unselected Ob-data = purple
selected Ob-data = yellow

Or is black no color?

We also could use white for 'being transformed' in editmode, as for  
objects. With white as 'hottest' color of course!

What to do with the object-centers is another issue...

> By re-using the yellow again, (keeping 2 colours) and re-using it for  
> the
> visualisation of selections, it just reinforces the idea of binary  
> off/on,
> of two possible states, which reinforces the idea of  
> selected/deselected,
> and not of the more complex multi-tiered relationships of the objects  
> and
> obData. The hierarchies get confused if you try and represent them by  
> using
> only 2 different colours since when they are re-used, it prevents a  
> clear
> definition of what a colour means and represents.

I still don't understand where yellow is 're-used'....

-Ton-

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