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Colour Wheel ideas and saving presets - advice please!
hugzncuddles
Posts: 223 Member
Hope this is in the right section. 
I'm forever drooling over all the wonderful creations here in this section and admire your custom colours for all aspects of furniture, walls, floors etc.
A few questions:
1) Do you 'find' your colours manually on the colour wheel at random, or do you work from palettes with rgb numbers or hex codes already made? I'm aware of a few colour sites with palettes, but finding the exact colour I want is time consuming. Often it's by experimenting with the light/darkness on the colour wheel, but still struggle to get the desired colour/shade.
2) Do you save your custom colours in the colour wheel section on the right, or in the object variations on the left?
3) How does this impact on lag/ bloating etc in the game if you save many custom colours? Should I be worried about saving presets in the dozens or hundreds?
Many thanks for your advice. I'm trying to be a better builder and decorator and eventually will share my creations when I develop a shred of confidence. Until then, I'll keep recommending everyone's superb builds and hope to learn as I go along.
I'm forever drooling over all the wonderful creations here in this section and admire your custom colours for all aspects of furniture, walls, floors etc.
A few questions:
1) Do you 'find' your colours manually on the colour wheel at random, or do you work from palettes with rgb numbers or hex codes already made? I'm aware of a few colour sites with palettes, but finding the exact colour I want is time consuming. Often it's by experimenting with the light/darkness on the colour wheel, but still struggle to get the desired colour/shade.
2) Do you save your custom colours in the colour wheel section on the right, or in the object variations on the left?
3) How does this impact on lag/ bloating etc in the game if you save many custom colours? Should I be worried about saving presets in the dozens or hundreds?
Many thanks for your advice. I'm trying to be a better builder and decorator and eventually will share my creations when I develop a shred of confidence. Until then, I'll keep recommending everyone's superb builds and hope to learn as I go along.
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1) I usually work with the colour wheel. I sometimes go in with a specific colour in mind to try to create, or sometimes I just drag it around until I find one that I like.
2) Both. If I really like the way an object looks, I'll save the object, but if I just stumble across something that I like but that doesn't really fit the object, I'll save it in the colour/patern presets.
3) I think it all boils down to what your computer can handle. I've got more saved via colour wheel than object presets, but I haven't noticed much lag either way. Ocasionally if I have lots saved in one particular category it'll take a second or two longer to load that category.
One thing I can't seem to find is a nice yellow shade on the colour wheel, tried many times so might try using preset rgb numbers - bookmarked a couple of sites that list them.
I'll try saving in both categories then, hopefully the new pc will laugh at it instead of crying like this one does lol.