Catching the RGB?

[Igloo]

Hello,

I want to get the RGB for shader editing. I got Photoshop and Gimp, but if I would somehow get in this second, would be cool. Though using google haven’t affected with any results, as the format was incorrect :oops: Could someone give me some advices on catching it? (till today I only used “MSPaint” to edit & “IrfanView” to export LOL).

I don’t think that this thread should really be posted here, but I didn’t have time to think 3>

Thanks!

Greetings,
Igloo

[Nail]

not sure what you mean, you can select colour mode on photoshop with Image/Mode

[S14Y3R]

Hi Igloo, do you mean you want to know how to convert your RGB colour into the 0.0-1.0 range used in Q3engine? Or vice/versa, convert the 0-1 range into normal range(0-255)?

red green blue : Color is described by three normalized RGB values. Color will be normalized to a 0.0 to 1.0 range, so it doesn’t matter what range you use.

Design Trick:
Not certain what color formula you want to use for the sun’s light? Try this. Create a light entity. Use the Radiant editor’s color selection tools to pick a color. The light’s _color key’s value will be the normalized RGB formula. Copy it from the value line in the editor (CTRL+c) and paste it into your shader.

I think to get to normalized you just divide your RGB values from photoshop by 255 to get 0.000-1.000, and multiply the 0.000-1.000 by 255 to get the proper color in photoshop/Gimp.

-correct me if I’m wrong

[Igloo]

Yeah, I wanted this. For everyone who didn’t know as me: to use this add light, then from menu Misc -> Select Entity Color… or just press K on your keyboard. Set up what color you want and apply changes (something like OK, dunno how in newer version :-p)

Thanks S14Y3R.

Greetings,
Igloo