JColdrick Yup, Jason's comment about contrast raises a good point.
I really am enjoying this cool blue 3D scene background now. It's recessive and really serves to separate the default grey GL shaded objects from the background. It's something I saw Lightwave had and was curious if it would bug me.
I was wondering about that. My normal thinking is to avoid colour as much as possible to avoid colour judgement taint, but I might give something like that a go when working in a non-shading/plate context.
They are ‘suppose’ to be HSV 60 0.56 0.45, which is a desat'd yellow. It looks like a nice yellow on my monitor but I've noticed on some people's monitors it falls more on the ‘greenish’ side. I play with it a bit more this weekend and maybe swing it a bit more towards orange. And if that doesn't work I'll try a cyan or blue tint.
Monitor issues and strange tinting aside I'm curious as to what people think about having pickable UI elements tinted ‘yellow’. The original Scheme has things brightened when selected, I did the same but added a bit of yellow to reinforce the whole “Yellow = Selection” in the viewport.
Pagefan JC since you are the COCT (Chief of Custom Color Themes - sorry Wolfwood, Jason and Graham, there is only one who can be COCT and, well, i just appointed JC…) there is a little bug in the With/With All but buttons on the Group/Combine tab. They look a bit sewer greenish….aka ugly…
JC and my UI files are almost identical except for a couple of #defines. I might just add both to the UI file and then do a #if statement.
Well I guess since Wolfwood is junior, then he could be half-COCT
Pagefan JC since you are the COCT (Chief of Custom Color Themes - sorry Wolfwood, Jason and Graham, there is only one who can be COCT and, well, i just appointed JC…) there is a little bug in the With/With All but buttons on the Group/Combine tab. They look a bit sewer greenish….aka ugly…
“gravity is not a force, it is a boundary layer” “everything is coincident” “Love; the state of suspended anticipation.”
Based off everyone's comments. I sort of merged the different design ideas together. I took mine as a base and made it less contrasty to feel more like JC's and Jason's. I also fixed some of the node name colors in the List Mode vs Network Mode. At last but not least I moved all the selections towards orange a little bit so they don't show up as green on some people's monitors.
Rafal.M hey wolf good job, personally the first one (darker) is my favourite, better for my eyes at day and night,I use it all time, thanks
Funny that you mention that. After using this new one for a bit I decided I like the first one better. So I just patched a few things in the original, like node colors, and left the rest alone.
OMG how did I miss this thread? Finally, the goggles do something! Oh wait, no, the goggles still do nothing, the UI has been fixed
Thanks to all for reducing the pain!
Incidentally, I discovered that a reasonable compromise was to go to colour settings and set Gamma to .6 and Saturation to 2 because I had no time to actually fool with the .hcs file itself.
I'd like to see the context colours be more saturated but I'm sure I can make that change myself to the WW/JC/JI file I end up prefering
In my next set of video tutorials I may use one of these new, very handsome, colour schemes. If I do, I would want to provide the colour script with the lessons. Is that alright with you guys?
“gravity is not a force, it is a boundary layer” “everything is coincident” “Love; the state of suspended anticipation.”
Cheers Woolfwood - I've also added a few minor tweaks of my own to your second offering… I'm loving it, very retro.
Wolfwood @SESI, you folks are more than welcome to grab one of these and add it to a future release of Houdini.
Indeed, to my eye, these Dark themes make Houdini stand out as the ‘prettiest’ looking app out there - not so important really, but could reel in a few more punters for next to no effort. What's the time scale for 9.1 anyway?
