The Color Chooser window
appears when you click any color swatch while working in the Mudbox
user interface (for example, the Properties window, Preferences
window, Material properties, and so on).
The Color
Chooser lets you:
- Select and specify colors for a property
or material using either the Color Wheel or Color
Palette.
- Select colors visually using either HSV
or RGB color space.
- Select colors from any location within
the 3D View.
- Select colors from an image file you
load in the Color Chooser.
- Blend colors and select colors from blended
values.
- Save frequenty used colors in the Color
History.
- Select colors numerically using float
or integer values (depending on the color model).
- Create and save custom color palettes
(including color palettes from other paint applications).
Controls
Color History
The Color
History section displays the currently selected color
and provides a variety of methods to quickly select and re-select
existing colors in the scene.
- Current/Previous color
-
The large color box in upper-left
region of the Color History is split into
two sections. The upper section displays the currently selected color;
the lower section displays the original or previously selected color.
- Eyedropper
-
Selects whatever color
is below the cursor position. Click the eyedropper icon then click
any area in the 3D View or Color Chooser to
select the color as the current color.
The eyedropper behavior
is as follows:
- Clicking an object samples the combined
results of any visible texture layers as they appear in the 3D
View.
- Lighting and shading on the object are
not taken into account by the eyedropper. That is the color is sampled directly
from the material/texture image. This ensures an accurate match
when painting.
- Clicking an image plane samples the pixel
colors on the image.
- Clicking anywhere else in the user interface
samples the color at that location.
NoteThe Eyedropper is
also available in the Paint Tools tray.
- Persistent color palette
-
Use this to select from
a set of standard primary colors and gray-scale values by clicking
the color palette in the Color History.
This palette always contains the same color set.
- History
-
As you continually set colors
on an object, those colors are added to the history so you can select
them in the future.
Color Wheel
The Color Wheel section
provides a variety of methods to select colors.
Ring
- Drag the tool cursor around the outer
ring to change the color hue that gets displayed in the center shaded
box
- Select the amount of color saturation
by clicking within the center shaded box.
- The Ring selector is also available in
the compact Color Chooser.
Spectrum
Displays a continuous
color range to select from.
- Drag the cursor within the spectrum to
select a color hue.
- Drag the slider below the spectrum to
adjust the color saturation for the selected hue.
Image
The Image tab
lets you sample colors directly from an image.
To load an image into
the box, do either of the following:
- Drag an image from a browser into the
box.
- Click the Load... button
and navigate to your image using the File Browser.
To select a color from
within the image area:
- Click-drag the tool cursor over the image
to magnify a specific region of the image.
- Release the mouse/stylus button to select
the current color under the cursor location.
Blend
The Blend tab
lets you blend four colors together and choose any color within
the shaded region.
- Drag any color from the Color
Palettes to one of the corners to change the colors being
blended in the shaded region.
- Click in the shaded region to select
a color.
Numeric Input
Numerical color values
are entered using the Numeric Input section.
- Type values into the associated field.
- Drag the associated slider to adjust
the numerical value.
- RGB or HSV color
models are supported.
Color Palettes
The Color
Palette lets you store up to 256 colors per palette.
- Select a color from the palette by clicking
it.
- Relocate a color value to another location
within the palette by dragging and dropping it on the new location.
- Store any current color by right-clicking
its square in the color palette.
- Load existing color palettes (or palettes
from other 2D applications) or save your current palette by clicking
either the Load... or Save... buttons.
- Choose between multiple color palettes
using the drop-down menu.