Champions Online Color Picker.

codewar65

I wrote little program this to help me find the best color match in Champions Online. I thought I'd make it available to any who might find it useful.

Click the [Pick..] button and then click on a color anywhere on your screen(s) to find the closest CO color. Or you can enter a #rrggbb color in the textbox to find a color that way. Closest match is determined by the 3D distance between the color you pick and a color in the CO palette. (3D distance is computed in a cube with a R. G. and B as axis).



Software can be obtained here: paragondawn.com/forum/m/27704899/viewthread/26850127-champions-color-picker

To uninstall, remove via your Control Panel / Programs and Features (Add / Remove Software).

C# source code available upon request.

circleofpsi

Soo, what does this to excaly?

Cuz we can't have white/black on powers

sistersilicon

This is the costume palette, not the power palette. Useful if, say, you were making an avian hero and you wanted to color-match the plumage of a specific bird. Or if you insist on your very fast, very British power armour having the proper shade of British Racing Green.

Meanwhile, I'm not even home from work yet, and I already have a question/feature request. Does the app display the hex value of the selected CO palette color? If not, that would be useful for picking colors in other apps.

codewar65

sistersilicon said:

This is the costume palette, not the power palette. Useful if, say, you were making an avian hero and you wanted to color-match the plumage of a specific bird. Or if you insist on your very fast, very British power armour having the proper shade of British Racing Green.

Meanwhile, I'm not even home from work yet, and I already have a question/feature request. Does the app display the hex value of the selected CO palette color? If not, that would be useful for picking colors in other apps.

I've found it useful for matching colors in camo patterns and plaid tartans.

It shows the color of your pick. To get the color from the palette, click the color in the palette.

kemmicals

Any chance we can get a tab for skin colours?

codewar65

kemmicals said:

Any chance we can get a tab for skin colours?

Definitely. Let me work on that.

biffsmackwell

sistersilicon said:

This is the costume palette, not the power palette. Useful if, say, you were making an avian hero and you wanted to color-match the plumage of a specific bird. Or if you insist on your very fast, very British power armour having the proper shade of British Racing Green.

Photoshop has a feature on the eyedropper tool which lets you sample an area of like 5x5 pixels, and you get an averaged result of all the pixels sampled within the area. This is a good way to get something like the plumage color of a bird , since they might have slightly varying colors in the photo. I think this would be a cool option for the "Pick..." feature.

sistersilicon said:

Meanwhile, I'm not even home from work yet, and I already have a question/feature request. Does the app display the hex value of the selected CO palette color? If not, that would be useful for picking colors in other apps.

The hex code is on the bottom left of the screen there.

codewar65

biffsmackwell said:

Photoshop has a feature on the eyedropper tool which lets you sample an area of like 5x5 pixels, and you get an averaged result of all the pixels sampled within the area. This is a good way to get something like the plumage color of a bird , since they might have slightly varying colors in the photo. I think this would be a cool option for the "Pick..." feature.

Agreed. To be added on next cycle.

drgmstr

This is a neat program, but there is one color I got a problem to. I picked a color that is #505078, which is a desaturated dark blue, which I had an armor color for a design I want to do, but it gives me the 6th color in the white to black column, which is a basic grey more or less. From visual perspective, it should be the 12th column either 3rd row, or even the 12th row color, depending on ones eyes as they look at it.

codewar65

drgmstr said:

This is a neat program, but there is one color I got a problem to. I picked a color that is #505078, which is a desaturated dark blue, which I had an armor color for a design I want to do, but it gives me the 6th color in the white to black column, which is a basic grey more or less. From visual perspective, it should be the 12th column either 3rd row, or even the 12th row color, depending on ones eyes as they look at it.

I use an RGB cube to compute distance to try match colors. I will update this to use a HSL cube at some point. It may return a more accurate match.

codewar65

Updated version up with skin colors and 1x1,3x3, or 5x5 click sampling.

biffsmackwell

Very cool, dude.

chaelk

you may have been looking at Paynes grey which is a blue grey.​​

codewar65

With the recent changes to the color palettes, I have removed this application and it is no longer available. And as I am no longer playing cryptic games, I will not be updating it.

markhawkman

You guys are going to keep hosting the maps though, right? Or do I need to somehow copy those to the wiki?

codewar65

markhawkman said:

You guys are going to keep hosting the maps though, right? Or do I need to somehow copy those to the wiki?

The maps are still there. It is just myself that stopped playing. Our SG is still very much alive and its website is as well.
My SG has just made an interest to take the maps over themselves.

markhawkman

Ah, that's what I thought, I just wanted to verify.

codewar65

markhawkman said:

Ah, that's what I thought, I just wanted to verify.

No problem. I've just posted all the handover information about the maps to the SG. If they scream running in terror about the complexity of it all (ImageMagick scripts, lempel ziv compression, javascript, and my own scripting language), we may still make arrangements.