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those arent the 3 base colors...

red, yellow and blue are

they can be mixed to make any color under the sun...

red+yellow = orange
yellow + blue = green

and so on

That's substractive colour mixing, that's with paint. Then the base colours are blue/cyan, magenta and yellow (and black & white for paint).
We're talking light here. Monitors/computers work with additive colour mixing. The base colours of light are red, green and blue.

Here's some links for ya:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color
You're not in our art team, right?

HaLLanHype wrote:those arent the 3 base colors...

red, yellow and blue are

omg, that statement is so ungeeky. i bet the next thing you say is that 256 is not a round number.

traditional knowledge comes in handy, but not in this case



though with subtractive you are working with pigments that arent necessarily CMYK ink lol. You cant print bright red with CMYK, but somehow my apple still is, whats up with that? lol.

Adarias wrote:though with subtractive you are working with pigments that arent necessarily CMYK ink lol. You cant print bright red with CMYK, but somehow my apple still is, whats up with that? lol.

Magenta and yellow makes bright red. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Subt ... Mixing.png

and when you can print that color using CMYK inks ill eat my words ^^

HaLLanHype did make me think though. Tried something out: mixing the hair colour using substractive mixing. This needs you to draw 5 layers, a negative cyan, negative yellow, negative magenta, negative key and a base layer (to prevent plain white hair). This is a lot less then drawing all possible colors we want in the game, which is currently ten. And it allows a lot more freedom for the players and more variation in their looks.

Here's a screenshot from the xcf file with it's layers. All layers modes, except the bottom one, are set to multiply. The Base layer's mode is set to normal.


I tried making the colours in Adaria's post on page 6 of this thread using this method:

I think with some editing of the colour layers they could look even better, because I don't like the highlights enough with some colours. Believe me, this already looks a lot better then colourising.

ok maybe I dont know colors of computers or whatever but im right as far as normal colors go as in art

and at least it helped out ?

HaLLanHype wrote:ok maybe I dont know colors of computers or whatever but im right as far as normal colors go as in art

and at least it helped out ?

Still it's magenta, cyan and yellow. It doesn't work with red and blue. But no matter.
And yes, you got me thinking.

Wow, i didnt know you could do that with those blendings? those look great!

Modanung is my new best friend and hero

Adarias wrote:Modanung is my new best friend and hero

Now now, don't overreact... you can be my slave though, if you want to.

Modanung wrote:

Adarias wrote:Modanung is my new best friend and hero

Now now, don't overreact... you can be my slave though, if you want to.

Ask your master (=me) before you hire new slaves!

Good work

i am still missing the good old squaresoft classic: spiky hair hold up by a bandana.

The hairstyle the main chars from Secret of Mana 1 or Chrono Trigger have.