Suggestion: Add RGB+W, CMYK, & "elemental" defaults to the Color Gun Palette

[Maehlice]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/5fd4e0593f782a96f442718e

Eight of my presets always turn into RGBW and CMYK. I would love to see these eight colors added to the Color Gun Palette as additional default presets.

Since these are 8 basic colors, they could be solid and non-customizable with smaller icons.

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While on the topic of preset solid colors, "elemental" default presets of the fluid colors would also be welcome. (e.g., Alumina grey, Sulfuric yellow, Oil black, Water blue, Residue purple, Fuel orange, Turbofuel Red).

[Dark Phoenix]

How the colour gun works is about to be shaken up, allowing for better customisation of colours.

[Kaeru Gaman]

I had a bit of a work to do to interprete your request...
so, you want eight of the presets for the color gun be simple red, yellow, green, cyan, blue, magenta, white and ... Kay (black)?
and what about the second color for the preset?

since the number of presets is quite limited, I would rather support some pre-chose buttons within the 'edit preset' palette... there basic combis to chose colors would be helpful, also for these elemental colors you named.

additionally, I would like to see the color gun coloring "personal storage" boxes.
was the first that I tried since I wanted to mark what I stored inside. was very disappointed it didn't work.

[Maehlice]

Because of the UE upgrade, the options for the color gun are going to open up tremendously, so I figured now may be the best time to talk about how it could change.

With the new upgrade, there will no longer be 16 masks each having a different color corresponding to a preset. There will be one skin, and it can be colored to whatever, so the number of presets should be virtually unlimited after the engine upgrade.

These new "primary" colors would be solid, so they would have no secondary: the primary and secondary would be the same color.

K is black, yes.

[Kaeru Gaman]

hm... I don't know. imagine a machine in a single color - it would look dull.
imagine this color be "spectral", like FF0000 for red, it would even be hurting the eyes.
a table of predefinitions would not be bad, and sure then the basic spectral colors should be part of it, but it should be much more allover. remember how many preset colors the windows internal color requester has meanwhile? and it's still kinda crap.
I liked my "colors.inc" include file for the POVRay raytracer that predefined nearly hundred colors by name, such as "midnightblue" and "darkslategrey".
but I would rather ask for the possibility to add such a preset list on my own in form of a XML file or such, instead of asking the devs to include my "two dozen most favourite color codes of all times"....

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by Kaeru Gaman:

hm... I don't know. imagine a machine in a single color

I use my solid presets on single-color objects like fences, walls, pipes, power poles & outlets, belts, splitters, etc.

I would rather ask for the possibility to add such a preset list on my own in form of a XML file or such, instead of asking the devs to include my "two dozen most favourite color codes of all times"....

Being able to upload colors would be awesome.

[Lil Puppy]

I just want graphic designers in games to stop using CMYK, it's a PRINT MEDIA COLOR GROUP and has no purpose in RGBA digital systems. I don't like HSL in games either; here, this one slides to 100, while this one barely goes to 1, and there's this one here, it also goes to 100 and you have no idea which set of them makes a single color you're looking for.

I really just want to enter my colors as hex numbers instead of having to look up a color conversion table just to enter my color preferences. In school you're taught that red + green = yellow - fitting perfectly into the RGB color model, you're not taught any other color space rules like HSL or CMYK or any of the dozens of other attempts to create a color space rule set.

[Kaeru Gaman]

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

I just want graphic designers in games to stop using CMYK, it's a PRINT MEDIA COLOR GROUP and has no purpose in RGBA digital systems.

I strongly agree to this argument

Originally posted by Lil Puppy:

I really just want to enter my colors as hex numbers

THIS!