How to see color code of specific color of model?

[Destroyah340]

Like in Photoshop with the eyedropper tool, is there a way to what color a model has specifically in SFM so I could type in the numbers to the settings of the $color2 attribute & find it there? I basically want to take a headhacked model & make the body's skin color match the head's if that's possible?

[Marco Skoll]

No. There is no eyedropper function in SFM.

You could try exporting an image and then using the eyedropper in Photoshop, but bear in mind that Source automatically applies a Gamma of 2.2 that you'll need to compensate for.
That's explained here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/$color

(You can only expect approximate results however, as the end result is not 100% proportional to the albedo texture's brightness, and may be affected by other things such as Phong and normal maps).

[Zappy]

Originally posted by Marco Skoll:

No. There is no eyedropper function in SFM. -

I'm not quite sure, but I think there's an eyedropper in the colour selection dialog for "Color"-type variables (though not "Vector3"-type variables). But again, I'm not quite sure about that.

[Marco Skoll]

Well, even if there is, I don't believe it'll be fantastically useful in respect to colour matching two bodies, simply because of how colour tinting and gamma work in Source.