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owlman

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Posted: 23rd May 2010 02:42

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hi, I wanted to ask 2 questions about color that I have ..

1, what does a number like 42566773 have to do with color and what are its componant parts? I guess it's connected to rgb in some way but I cant find any inf about it and after time examining such numbers I'm no wiser now than before.

2, when I create a primitive object and try to apply a color to it, the color never shows. I create the object and then color it .. what else do I need to do? ..

thanks ..

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Spectre 117

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Posted: 23rd May 2010 05:00 Edited at: 23rd May 2010 05:05

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well with out seeing your code I can't know exactly what your problem is. So, try this

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sync on
sync rate 60
backdrop on
color backdrop 0

 objNum= whatever number you want your object to be
 make object sphere objNum, 20
 color object objNum, rgb(200,75,150)
do 
sync 
loop
end

by the way if you are using a wait key command that could be causing your problem. If I remember correctly the system has to sync twice before all the data is displayed on the screen. Hope this helps.
Also, I have no idea what that number means. It may be the limit of an integer in DBpro

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owlman

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Posted: 23rd May 2010 10:59

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hi Spectre, thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I'm having problems using the color object command as part of a larger procedural scene I am trying to compose. Isolated and alone such as in your example color object works fine -

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Posted: 26th May 2010 23:02

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That number is too large to represent a color in RGB...

16777215 base 10 = FF FF FF hex = 255 255 255 = white
16711680 base 10 = FF 00 00 hex = 255 0 0 = red
65280 base 10 = 00 FF 00 hex = 0 255 0 = green
255 base 10 = 00 00 FF hex = 0 0 255 = blue

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owlman

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Posted: 28th May 2010 23:35

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@dcpyatt .. thanks I get it now .. dec forms of hex values of rgb colors. not easy for me - but very useful. gotta get my head round it.