applying colors

[Anonymous]

First off, I'm very new at this program, so my questions will most likely be very elementary, so I apologize. At the moment, I was wondering if their is a way to create your own color and apply it to the siding of a wall. Or even if there is a way to extract a color from a JPG photo. Thanks

[Dwight]

All surfaces are covered with a material.

Materials are accessed through the material settings dialog where surface behavior is established relative to the rendering engine selected: Internal, OpenGL or LightWorks.

You'll see a "Surface color" box. This color is valid in Internal Engine 3D views and in OpenGL views if textures are not enabled. Any color at all. Doesn't have to be black. We modern.

Otherwise, in Internal Renderings and OpenGL 3D views [with textures enabled] the surface texture provided by an image is used. In LightWorks, depending on how the material is constructed, an image, a shader or a combination of the two is used.

You can extract the color of a Jpeg only by sampling it in Photoshop or similar.

BTW: The Sun color and Ambient color are important to material success - setting these colors also affects the outcome of OpenGL and Internal 3D views.

[Dwight]

And now I re-read your question and wonder if initially, I gave a good answer.

If your siding is a picture, you must do one of two things to change color:

either change the image color to suit your needs - in Photoshop

OR:

ONLY FOR LIGHTWORKS:
as on page something-or-other in my book… page 96…
in the LightWorks Color Class, there's a Shader called "Wrapped Filtered Image" that allows for the placement of a tint over a photo. The tint only affects the lighter parts of the image overlaid.

[Anonymous]

Oh I see; I've just been looking in the object properties, I'll have to look for the material settings. And I don't think that the siding is a picture, I just selected siding in the modeling options. I don't quite get what you mean by sampling a JPG in photoshop though. Thanks

[Dwight]

TISUE wrote:
Or even if there is a way to extract a color from a JPG photo.

There.
You said it.

Photoshop has an eyedropper that picks color by sampling an adjustable range of pixels and averaging them....

[Anonymous]

how do I go about bringing the color in to AC from photoshop, though?

[Dwight]

You have an appropriate avatar with those big scared eyes....

MAC or PC? Original baptist or reformed? 1879 or 1915?

http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~lkozar/EmoPhillips.html

Don't know from PC but on Mac you sample a color and store it in the color picker. In ArchiCAD you use it. PC must have something like it but it will be clunkier, no doubt.

Then there's copying the RGB values.....

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

haha, alright, I'll play around with it, thanks