Identify Paint or Panels?

[Mully]

Is there anyway to identify already existing paint or panels so I can keep painting with the same color? Some of them look so similar.

[MARKFITZ]

No you have to try it first. I know what you mean, some of the colours do not even match the colour in the pictures. It is not the light as I have tried the same colours with out Day night cycle and with or without Eco settings.

[Itz2L84Me]

I would love that. Also, just being able to point at a can of paint that I've purchased and see what the color is, since I often forget which it was.

[CyborgJellyFish]

On the one hand I agree with the swatch approach of testing colours to see what was there before you purely on the basis of immersion. You wouldn't know what it is, so working it out is fair. Additionally, they could use existing systems to add paint knowledge with the painting skills so that you could identify other paints by using the (for example) "paint many walls".

On the other hand, if it wasn't already there? Totally agree. If you that placed it then you should have an in-game prompt to say what you did. I especially agree with the paint cans on the floor need to have a tooltip / identifier. I mean, it would say on the tin so of course we'd be able to figure that out. Just my opinion, others may vary.

[Oz Gaming]

Originally posted by markfitz2014:

No you have to try it first. I know what you mean, some of the colours do not even match the colour in the pictures. It is not the light as I have tried the same colours with out Day night cycle and with or without Eco settings.

Agreed. I bought some cans of "White" paint but when I used them the walls looked like Light Grey.

[Meta03]

It is driving me crazy that I can't identify wall colors and floor tiles. When I take some walls down, there are usually just a few places needing repaint, or retile, yet matching it from the store is insanely difficult, and it is easiest just to repaint everything, wasting money.

VERY bad choice from the developers not to let you match floor and wall covering easily. I am surprised they overlooked this.

[Alyshae]

I honestly think they had a few flooring options when they built the houses that weren't made available in the store. I have methodically gone through every time / panel without finding a match on a few houses.

[Ducky]

This game needs an eyedropper tool.

[Braveheart]

Originally posted by Ducky:

This game needs an eyedropper tool.

HF2 will have this feature

[Grizzus]

I started playing now and I also wanted the tool to choose the color or identify, it is a little difficult to match in some cases. A sadness after a few years of this post and we don't have it.

[Lilykatze]

Originally posted by Grizzus:

I started playing now and I also wanted the tool to choose the color or identify, it is a little difficult to match in some cases. A sadness after a few years of this post and we don't have it.

Since the devs listened a lot to what players requested in the five years this game exists and since exactly this tool will be in HF2, it probably just wasn't technically possible to implement in HF1 with any kind of reasonable afford / expense.

[Copeteles]

Originally posted by Lilykatze:

Originally posted by Grizzus:

I started playing now and I also wanted the tool to choose the color or identify, it is a little difficult to match in some cases. A sadness after a few years of this post and we don't have it.

Since the devs listened a lot to what players requested in the five years this game exists and since exactly this tool will be in HF2, it probably just wasn't technically possible to implement in HF1 with any kind of reasonable afford / expense.

Nahh, it's perfectly possible. You just hold some stuff that people want back so you can sell again. Tale as old as time.