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    • J Offline
      Jim
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      I think it's a bug in the tool, in afterthought. Using Alt-Tab should not cancel the tool as it does currently.

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        I have a color picker freeware thingy on my PC that I use for picking colors outside the SU window. I just minimize SU and use the color picker. You have to make a note of the RGB values and enter them manually but it isn't that difficult to do. I don't recall the exact name but it something like HexColor Finder.

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
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          Here's the link: http://www.tucows.com/preview/240092

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          • J Offline
            Jim
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            Ya know that got me thinking. I use FastStone Capture which can copy the picked values to the Clipboard - so there could be a simple function to add the material where the color values could be pasted into the Ruby Console. Such as..

            1097.png

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            • Bob JamesB Offline
              Bob James
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              I use ColorPix (http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php) and SnagIt

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                Bob James
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                @jim said:

                Ya know that got me thinking. I use FastStone Capture which can copy the picked values to the Clipboard - so there could be a simple function to add the material where the color values could be pasted into the Ruby Console. Such as..

                [attachment=0:3mw55dxe]<!-- ia0 -->1097.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3mw55dxe]

                How about taking it one step further: click on a screen color from a photo or whatever and the plugin automatically makes a texture. Think of the steps thatwould save!

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                  Jim
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                  @bob james said:

                  How about taking it one step further: click on a screen color from a photo or whatever and the plugin automatically makes a texture. Think of the steps that would save!

                  That's exacty what I've been thinking about, but can't see a good way to get the picked color into SketchUp. I suppose a shortcut which activates a input box which then accepts the pasted values from the clipboard would be OK?

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                  • pbacotP Offline
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                    I can do that with a Mac, using the magnifier glass in the paint tool. But how true it is, I don't know. For one thing you are picking only a pixel and the first image may have a field of a gradient or different color pixels. It certainly doesn't always look exactly the same once I splash it on Sang's shirt, but that can be an effect of SU shading.

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                    • Bob JamesB Offline
                      Bob James
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                      @pbacot said:

                      For one thing you are picking only a pixel and the first image may have a field of a gradient or different color pixels.

                      On a PC you make a new texture, use the eyedropper that picks up the pixel color from an on-screen picture, give it a name and now you have a new texture/color. That's what the simple version of the ColorMaker plugin (precursor to TextureMaker πŸ˜„ ) would do automatically.

                      If the texture is more than a single color here's what I do:

                      1. Take a snapshot of a square of it with Snagit
                      2. Import the snapshot as a texture and make it a unique texture
                      3. Scale it
                      4. Apply it

                      This works, unless, of course, the texture is not tileable (like a gradient).

                      Ideally the TextureMaker plugin would be able do this in addition to single-color textures (in my dreams) πŸ˜„

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                      • TIGT Offline
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                        This freeware http://www.linxexplorer.com/colorpicker.html lets you pick colors off any screen pixel...

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