Normals "Colouring"

Orac

After Sane mentioned it I sort of started thinking about it.
You see, rather than the current grey visual scheme for normals, I'd like to see a more obvious spectrum.
Obviously this spectrum would be the red->yellow->green->blue->purple, with gradients between.

It'd make normals painting easier, with a more varied palette of colours and a visual clue as to the orientation of the normals.
There really isn't many clues as to the normal of any given voxel, because the grey only can be seen to change on the underside.

Without this addition to VXLSE, I don't see myself ever really painting normals properly.

Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Sane is already working on the new palette for normals Razz

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Orac · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:54 am Post subject:

Indeed.

SaneDisruption · Cyborg Cannon **Joined**: 14 Feb 2007

indeed i am, i've actually got it done for the TS spectrum, i'm just waiting for Banshee to implement them... so we should hopefully see them soon Smile

HBD · Civilian **Joined**: 01 Oct 2009 **Location**: China

Red may correspond to X, green to Y, and Blue to Z.
For example, we can get the color for a normal like this:
R=floor(X*256), G=floor(Y*256), B=floor(Z*256).
Please have a look at the screenshot of my private modified version of VXLSE III with the feature above implemented. I think it looks great, and it make normalizing no longer obscure to the users.
What do you think?

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Banshee · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:43 pm Post subject:

Good approach. The only problem are the negatives...

Try

R = Round(((X * 2.0) - 1.0) * 255);
G = Round(((Y * 2.0) - 1.0) * 255);
B = Round(((Z * 2.0) - 1.0) * 255);

HBD · Civilian **Joined**: 01 Oct 2009 **Location**: China

Yes, you are right; sorry for my mistake #Tongue

I'm going to take further steps in the normalizing methods, maybe I'll create a 'manual normalizer' someday Smile