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HOW TO ENTER CUSTOM RGB VALUES ON SURFACE COLORS??"?

Anonymous
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I'm a little rusty from not using Archicad in a few years but there used to be an easy way to enter custom RGB values in the surface settings but I cant seem to find how to do it anywhere.

I'm sure its right under my nose but can someone point me in the right direction?

thx!

(FYI-I have the RGB values from Sherwin Williams and want to match them for doing colors on exterior materials--I realize its not an exact match but its good enough for my purposes)
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David Maudlin
Rockstar
Davidjones1:

Surfaces dialog box, Engine Settings: Open GL, Exposure to Light panel > click on Surface Color. On the Mac the color picker will appear, select the Sliders icon at the top and RGB Sliders in the pop-up list.

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Tim Ball
Expert
I also find this website useful

https://imagecolorpicker.com

You take a screenshot of say a product website image an then get the RGB numbers to set up[ your own colour.
Tim Ball

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User since V5
DGSketcher
Legend
If you are on Mac then Launchpad > Digital Colour Meter will give you RGB values.
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