Matching colours/paint

[redhed17]

Hello all. A question which has probably been asked before, but I have searched and can't find anything.

When I used to do a livery (which I haven't done for awhile) if I opened a design and chose an item which I had chosen a colour for previously, I could open the Colour Picker for that item and see what the values were for the Hue, Saturation and Vibrancy, and so that would show up as a point in the colour picker and a circle below the preset colours so that I could use it on other items. That no longer seems to work! Does anyone know how to get the colour values for an item in an already saved design so as to be able to match colours?

 

[machine1121]

If I'm doing a livery over multiple sessions, I've started writing the HSV values down. PD really needs to fix this because it's extremely annoying.

 

[MMX]

If you paint something custom color, you can get it to recall it, but it no longer works with custom color decals, like it use to. If I have to stop working on a design, I paint the wing, mirror and/or hood the colors that I want to recall later. It works, and you don't have to write it down.

 

[Rizla]

If you paint something custom color, you can get it to recall it, but it no longer works with custom color decals, like it use to. If I have to stop working on a design, I paint the wing, mirror and/or hood the colors that I want to recall later. It works, and you don't have to write it down.

Now that's a damn good idea.

 

[BLiTZ]

Yeah, this 'feature' got broken around the time that they introduced the darker black. I suspect it wasn't an intended feature and was related to how people were glitching the deep black before the update.

I also use MMX's method for colours I know I'll need between sessions, you can also go one stage further and create a 'palette livery', IE paint a car's various sections in the colours I'll need. So long as you don't exit the editor all the way back to the home screen any colours you select on one livery stay in the colour picker as you move between various designs.

 

[Cytoria]

I also use MMX's method for colours I know I'll need between sessions, you can also go one stage further and create a 'palette livery', IE paint a car's various sections in the colours I'll need. So long as you don't exit the editor all the way back to the home screen any colours you select on one livery stay in the colour picker as you move between various designs.

This. The easiest way is to save your livery, then randomly paint the body zones with the colours you need and « save as » so it creates a copy of the livery.

 

[redhed17]

Thanks everyone for replying.

It is a pity there is no easy way around the way it used to be of opening an item already used in a livery and it appearing in the history. My problem is I have been going back to older livery designs to alter/update, and trying to match colours is a pita. If you can't get something new matched then you have to go and change all the previously saved items to match the new non matching colour.

Maybe for new designs I will try MMX's idea. 👍

I hope they change it back to the way it was at some point because it is putting me off getting back to using it.

 

[CayenneGTS]

There's an app called 'GTS color' on the apple store that saves your HSV values and also acts as an RGB/HEX to HSV converter.