River-Ocean Blend Color RGB Values....

[Strip]

This is a pallet I worked on showing colors of the river to ocean blend.


Basically I moved the slider to each hash mark and created a section of water blend. Then I exported the
waterc.bmp file and took the values of RGB. While it while it will export 17 colors it will only import and draw
4 shades. So each section of four colors will import and draw as one blend of river-ocean. Hope it makes
sense and helps people draw blends.

Strip

[Saxman]

So wait, are these what it looks like in the game, or is this just the color-coding it uses?

[Strip]

This is the color coding it uses for water color when you export the waterc(d) file....

[Saxman]

Do you have an example of what the ACTUAL colors look like?

[Strip]

You can change them outside the T.E so it would be different for everyone who played with the original ocean color.

[Strip]

Original post edited to show water color with stock settings.....

[Saxman]

I wish HTC had used grayscale for water color too. Transitions would be easier to do that way.

[zmeg]

    Both waterc and waterd are always greyscale for me, strip must be inadvertantly applying a custom color table. I've found I get the best results by using only 3 colors, 0,0,0  130,130,130 & 255,255,255, Using more colors adds little or nothing to the look of the water and it caused the size of the res output file to jump from 8 megs to over 50 megs.

[Saxman]

Hm, I may try copying my waterd into waterc and see what happens, because the depth should correspond to my "shallows."

[Strip]

    Both waterc and waterd are always greyscale for me, strip must be inadvertantly applying a custom color table. I've found I get the best results by using only 3 colors, 0,0,0  130,130,130 & 255,255,255, Using more colors adds little or nothing to the look of the water and it caused the size of the res output file to jump from 8 megs to over 50 megs.

It seems like we are working off three or four versions or something, that or language/term/naming confusion.

The waterc/d files are always 256 color .bmp when I create one and check its properties. Your right tho, only makes sense to input three colors as you only have three levels of water shade.

Strip

[Saxman]

Interesting enough, I made a copy of my waterd.bmp and renamed it waterc.bmp, and the water color DID change.

[Strip]

How did it turn out?

[Saxman]

I'll probably want to fine-tune it, but not too badly. On the whole, I think the effect would be better with a smoother transition like the water depth, however.

[Waffle]

The exports are / should be gray scale.

[Saxman]

Incidentally, I was able to change the River color in the editor but even after changing the Ocean color it's not updating in the TE, just using the default.