[Bf-funboard] material RGB values in 0-255 format

[Matt Ebb]

There was a topic in the tracker with research about designing a proper
colour picker for Blender. Unfortunately projects.blender.org is down at the
moment though :(

There's at least one initial rough mockup here:
http://mke3.net:9000/blender/fubo/col_mockup1.png

Matt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Bischoff" <bischofftep@mac.com>
To: <bf-funboard@blender.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Bf-funboard] material RGB values in 0-255 format


> On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 09:30 AM, malefico andauer wrote:
>
> > I guess this must have been requested before, but
> > maybe forgotten. It would be very comfortable that the
> > classical 0-255 format for RGB values were indicated
> > in teh material buttons, maybe next to the normalized
> > value (or even replace it ;-) ). This way I won't have
> > to make the calculations myself everytime I want to
> > match a colour from Gimp (or whatever).
> >
> > It couldn't be too hard to include this in 2.29, right
>
> I wrote this into Blender as a test, and while it did work it was
> somewhat confusing to new users. What was suggested at that time (which
> is, alas, beyond my coding ability) was an option button in the User
> Preferences pane which would permit toggling back & forth between
> decimal (Far more precise) and RGB (the standard for most other
> programs) for those values dealing with color.
>
> This might be a good proposal!
>
> -Bish
>
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