Name colours in tailor

bobsy26

Something I'm always finding irritating is trying to remember which precise colour to use on a costume piece. If I've used several similar shades of blue in a costume, it's actually very hard to pick out the exact one I want from the recently-used colour list. It's even worse if I'm trying to recreate a colour scheme on a different character.

This could be alleviated by naming every colour in the palette, so that there's something more tangible to remember. Rather than trying to remember row 4, column 5, it'd just be 'Toxic Green', or 'UNTIL Blue'. They don't all have to be unique names either, the grey scales could just be named as percentages: '40% Gray', for example.

Essentially, a quality of life suggestion.

jasinblaze

I just count down and over to remember, there is no room for text maybe as a mouse over but that would be the only way

eiledon

hell if they added A - J (or however many columns) over the top, and 1 - 10 (or however many rows down the side) I could live with that. so you could remember or tell people the colors quickly - A10, D4 etc.

meedacthunist

STO has both features, color names and numeric values visible next to the body sliders.
It's not a complex change, data are there, just make them visible in UI.

/signed

chaoswolf820

eiledon wrote: »

hell if they added A - J (or however many columns) over the top, and 1 - 10 (or however many rows down the side) I could live with that. so you could remember or tell people the colors quickly - A10, D4 etc.

Now that might work.

bluhman

Less intrusive than that: Hover over a color for a couple of seconds to get a name and coordinate position; it'll appear as a tooltip:

jerax1011

bluhman wrote: »

Less intrusive than that: Hover over a color for a couple of seconds to get a name and coordinate position; it'll appear as a tooltip:

signed!!! (silly pun color names are also approved :P)

vorshoth

As someone who is colour blind and suspects he's made multiple pinkredders, loads of purple people eaters who were meant to be blue, and green sun-themed characters, such a thing would make playing CO much more enjoyable.

zamuelpwe

eiledon wrote: »

hell if they added A - J (or however many columns) over the top, and 1 - 10 (or however many rows down the side) I could live with that. so you could remember or tell people the colors quickly - A10, D4 etc.

This or the hover tooltip would help so much.

bobsy26

bluhman wrote: »

Less intrusive than that: Hover over a color for a couple of seconds to get a name and coordinate position; it'll appear as a tooltip:

Yes, this is exactly what I meant but explained poorly. It's so nice that you live in my brain to do all the good thinking for me, Bluhman.

bluhman

Having done HCI/UI design, stuff like the distinction between tooltips and labels is something that I sort of focus on. It's only natural that it gets forgotten sometimes.