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gnarlycranium

01-19-2003, 03:06 PM

I don't know if they've fixed this in 5, but in my lowly 4.2 I am getting seriously annoyed that MAX doesn't have a color eyedropper tool. There's a material eyedropper, but not one for colors. This is seriously inconvenient when I want to make a gradient or something from a palette I made in Photoshop or the like-- it's a pain in the rear to use another program to find out the RGB values of dozens of colors, and then type the darn things in.

Does anybody know if there's a script for this?

Stroker

01-19-2003, 04:56 PM

Pencil + paper.
I couldn't tell you how man scrawls I have of RGB or HSB values laying around my computer.

If you can get your hands on ACO and MAT file formats, you might be able to make a converter. Feed it an ACO file, and it spits out a MAT file with a Multi-Sub material with all of your colours in the slots. A hex editor and some free time - a freak like would do it.

Then again, maybe somebody else has a better solution.

edit: Took a quick peek. Looks like ACT would be alot easier than ACO. I don't have a clue about MAT.

gnarlycranium

01-19-2003, 05:14 PM

Ouch... when you've got to resort to pencil and paper again, you know there's a problem!! ;)

I can't script.. at all... I'm just a lowly beginner, so I have to go around asking other people. It seems like SOMEBODY would have done something about this by now... hmm

Anton Andriesh

01-19-2003, 07:49 PM

I have a very good small utility for this - EyeDropper.

I can send it to you.

KiboOst

01-19-2003, 09:14 PM

http://www.debuzz.nl/maxscripts/copycolor/index.html

:beer:

Kib

Equinoxx

01-19-2003, 09:24 PM

or get this one

http://www.maxplugins.de/r4_files/lesha/colorpickerformax.zip

allows you to pick ANY color on screen.

[set it as defaul in customize/preferences. in the general you can choose your colorselector]

gnarlycranium

01-19-2003, 10:13 PM

:bounce: Ahah!! You guys are awesome, thanks!! Now let's just see if I can get these thingies to work!

gnarlycranium

01-19-2003, 10:58 PM

Ack... no good.
KiboOst -- your link is to something that apparently is used for putting in Hex color codes from Photoshop.

Equinoxx -- Yours is nifty, but it only picks things that are already in color swatches. My problem is trying to get the colors I want IN those in the first place.

Guess I should've been more specific-- I need an eyedropper thingie that will pick colors from bitmaps. Just like the eyedropper inside Photoshop or Paint Shop does.

Bobo

01-19-2003, 11:40 PM

Originally posted by Gnarly Cranium
Equinoxx -- Yours is nifty, but it only picks things that are already in color swatches. My problem is trying to get the colors I want IN those in the first place.

WRONG!
It lets you pick any color from any pixel on your Windows screen. ANYTHING! Even the eye color of a smiley :rolleyes:

gnarlycranium

01-19-2003, 11:54 PM

It does?? I must be stoopid then, cause I can't figure out how... I'll fuss at it summore... :p

OH! You hold DOWN the mouse button offa the pick thing and then let go over what... ohhhh okay... :D

KiboOst

01-20-2003, 07:36 AM

With hex, it's easy to copy/paste color from toshop, isn't it ? Faster than remeber three rvb value per color. But Equinox script seems nice too, will try it !!

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