Hue/Colour Identification

[Mens Rea]

Hail thee,

I was wondering if there is any way to identify what "hue" or "colour number thing" an item is dyed.

Is there any way? For a regular joe without any knowledge of l33t programming skills to do this?

Regards,

Mens Rea

[Pro]

Razor > display/counters > add > target item > hue # is in the box called Color(-1)

[Dagon]

not really.. at least not in any meaningful way to be re-used in UO.

there are programs out there that will grab whatever color is under the cursor and display it in various color codes, but that wont help you reproduce the color in UO except by trial and error of dying the item over and over until you find the matching color

if i'm wrong please correct me.

--edit, ah yea, forgot about that Pro ... nice one. but still requires dying and redying until you find the correct shade.

[Pro]

he just said he wanted to identify hue

[SJane3384]

Maybe ask a GM to help? I know they will match furny/special dye tubs for people on occasion, maybe they can look at hue too?

[Mikel123]

Maybe ask a GM to help? I know they will match furny/special dye tubs for people on occasion, maybe they can look at hue too?

Fact: GMs see UO entirely in code, like the programmers looking at the Matrix:

[MatronDeWinter]

Thing is, the hue changes the color of items. The underlying gradient/shading of the item's original color can be different. So if you dye two different things with the same dye tub, you often get different results.

[Rammar]

This will get your color.

Razor > display/counters > add > target item > hue # is in the box called Color(-1)

Maybe ask a GM to help? I know they will match furny/special dye tubs for people on occasion, maybe they can look at hue too?

Just do it yourself. Heres an off-the-cuff formula for matching a standard color (hues 2->1001, 1000 hues total):

Round all divisions ("//") down to nearest integer (0.99 would round to 0).
row = (match - 2) // 100
column = (match - 100row - 2) // 5
slider = match - 100row - 5column - 2

All three variables start from 0. The color slider has 0 for darkest, 1 for default, and 4 for brightest.