The Color
Chooser window appears when you click any color swatch
in Mudbox (for example, in the Properties window
or Preferences window).
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 frequently 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
-
Lets you 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 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.
- Click to select a color from the palette.
- Relocate a color value to another location
within the palette by dragging and dropping it on the new location.
- Right-click a square in the color palette
to store any current color.
- Click Load to load
existing color palettes (including those from other applications)
or click Save to save your current palette.
- Select other color palettes from the
drop-down menu.