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RGB colour tool for alpha

Archive · 2008 9 old posts

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nix ·

Hey folk, I'm gathering a little of SM graphics now. I made this colour tool if you need alpha colour, or maybe there's another way for alpha?

Cheers

matti ·

nix wrote: Hey folk, I'm gathering a little of SM graphics now. I made this colour tool if you need alpha colour, or maybe there's another way for alpha?

Cheers

What do you mean by "alpha colour"? Alpha is the value that describes how much you can see thru the colour(or element with that colour). So every colour with an alpha less than 255 will look different depending on what is seen behind it. So would this tool be rather pointless without that element behind the chosen colour? One solution could be to have it as a module inside an osm, rather than an exe..

nix ·

Hey, Yep, I meant coloured elements that need to have opacity. You can still get a better idea of which colour you are punching in. Maybe I should show blocks of different colours behind the display? It's handy enough for me because to skin Orion the parameters for the GUI colours are in RGB. Previously it was just trial and error for me. Now what I'm going to try and do is display the numbers so they can be cut and pasted in one block. Any idea how to do? Cheers

matti ·

There's some primitives that enable you to edit a string. That should work for your copying. Can't remember what those primitives were.. maybe look inside the preset manager?

sunsynth ·

Search 4 the 'Edit Box' my friend and feed it with the string... 😉

Walter

nix ·

Thanks very much folk. I'll try the edit box again,ta mate. For now I made it so that it exports to a text file->

I'll make it less purely functional looking some time. Cheers

nix ·

Thanks very much Walter. Control C was the trick. Here is the version where you can cut and paste- http://www.sendspace.com/file/gk3t4y Cheers

sunsynth ·

Usefull tool nick, thanks! Here a little thingy i use real often: ZZoom to get RGB from Screen...

Walter

nix ·

You're sure welcome Walter 🙂 . Thanks for the link, that will be handy. Cheers

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