Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 8 SP1 Feature Request

Whichway opened this issue on Aug 07, 2009 · 200 posts


MikeJ posted Sun, 16 August 2009 at 4:18 PM

Quote - I would like a better color contol/picker. The one provided now (in the materials room) is very barebones. I am color blind (I see some colors, but not all of them). The sepia gradient at the bottom of the first picker really does not produce browns, and I cannot pick out the different colors from the swatches on the secondary color control.

LMK

I totally agree. I don't have any problems seeing, but that color picker is just plain stupid and I can't believe after all these years it's still being used.

The Windows color picker is bad enough, but it's a lot better than what you get in Poser when you click on a color. You get that stupid gradient picker first and then have to click another button to get to the real color picker.
Now why is that stupid? Because the first level is completely inaccurate, no way to get an exact color, just slide your little cursor along and select something. Do you want black? Well, you can get black if you get the cursor just right, but you migth end up with RGB 0,3,7. How about pure yellow? Will you settle for RGB 255,251,6? That's close enough, right?

I don't mind the gradient thing, but for God's sake, make that the option, not the default in future Poser versions.

Better yet, they really ought to create a new color picker entirely. Just pick an app out there to model it on; since every 3D and 2D app in the world has a better color picker, whatever you settle on will be better.