Custom Colours on Edit

I'm somewhat a little confused about this. I have tried and tried but cannot seem to keep any custom colours when you go to edit and change a colour of an object. I click the square, change the colour, click the custom colours and ok button. The colour stays there on custom colours until I relog and then they are gone!!!

Is this normal or is there any way of keeping custom colours.

It's bad behavior, for sure, but it's normal. It's always been that way.

If you want to preserve your custom colors, make your own color picker out of prims. Make up a grid of fullbright cubes, and color them any way you see fit. When you want to repeat a color, simply rez your picker object, eyedropper the color from there. It's a fairly silly thing to have to do, but it works.

Alternatively, you can write down your color values, or make up a sheet of swatches in Photoshop.

thank you, you would think sl would sort that out as they give you the option for custom colours. Thanks for the advice.

Hi Nisa~!

You shouldn't lose your custom colors....but there's one critical step that you need to take.....not sure by your post if you've done it. After you've made your custom color....you need to drag it down from the larger area into one of the smaller color palatte boxes. That will keep the color in your settings, so you just have to click on that little square next time!

If you're already doing that.....then I'm not sure. It could be a new bug, so you might want to create a jira. Which version are you using? I know a while back there was a problem with saving custom colors, in that you couldn't even drag them down into the palette box.....but that had been resolved (I use the regular viewer, no issues so far with colors)

Hmm, thanks, Milla. I thought that even those lower boxes got wiped on relog. If that has indeed been fixed, maybe I just haven't tried it recently enough. I'll give it a whirl.

yea the colour was in the 2 separate rows and I clicked ok and then they disappeared after relogging
I made the colour and it appeared in the larger box and then clicked the custom button and ok button

I've just tried it again made the colour, clicked add to custom colours and the colour appears in the 2 bottom rows, clicked ok. And then relogged and it had gone, but it has been like that for a long time

Maybe this is another one of those truly bizarre bugs that only affects certain people, like the local rotation bug.

If you think of it- drop me an IM and I will send you a neat little color chart i have in world as well as a color cube vector that might be of help in getting colors matched.

Slight de-rail- Chosen what is the local rotation bug? I ask because have been having a nightmare of a time keeping a rotation correct when linking a child prim with a swing script in it and someone mentioned there had been a bug at some point- not sure if related.

lol it's were after linking multiple prims, the local rotation doesn't default to the root prims orientation (or the gomentric average) but instead to the value of a random child prim... they claim it's fixed...

The local rotation bug, if you have it, will make a linkset take its rotation orientation from the first child (second-to-last prim selected before linking), instead of fr0m the parent (last prim selected before linking). It's really annoying.

It was fixed for about five minutes several months ago with either a viewer update, or a server update. I don't remember which. But it returned with the very next update.

Just make the color and drag it to the custom color you want it in. Don't worry about clicking on "add to custom colors".

Is there a hack for it that won't get broken if LL ever does fix the problem?

Haha, nice claim, LL. Way to pay attention. It's definitely not fixed. Here's a linkset I made 30 seconds ago:



Any Lindens among us (not that expect there to be any) want to tell me which way those arrows are pointing?

My habitually sideways palm tree begs to differ

The only work-around for it is to make sure the second-to-last select a prim has the same rotation as the last selected. Depending on the build, this may or may not be possible, though, obviously.

You have not mentioned if this is a prim item attached to you (worn), or something just simply rezzed in world.

If it is attached to you, detach, then reattach, then log and the color should stay

If it is rezzed in world, not sure what the fix would be (I do not have issues with rezzed item keeping their color, only attached items IF I do not detach and reattach before logging)

The attached (worn) prim items also will not retain resize and position changes if you do not detach and reattach.

Nisa isn't talking about the color of the prim face, if I understand correctly, but about the saved custom colors in the SL color picker.

Yes!! You have to DRAG it to the custom box below....the 'create custom color' button doesn't work!!! I always drag mine so I never tried the custom button......But dragging it to the box should save it fine ~

oh my bad I thought she was referring to the coloring of a prim...

(not sure about the custom colors box on the edit window, I never seem to have a problem with it)

*shrug*

The prim keeps the colour that is not the problem. The problem is on any prim you edit and want to change the colour, you have all the standard colours, but you can alter the rgb on any and make that a custom colour. so when you next building and want that particular colour the colour should still be there on when you click on the colour tab in edit, but mine disappear when I relog.

I only once had an ongoing problem saving colours in the custom palette, which was with the last 'stable' release from October of last year: the drag and drop feature just didn't work. That really pissed me.

Otherwise I've been happily building custom palettes since my earliest days as a newbie without losing a single colour. One of the first features of editing I picked up on was to use different hues of off-white to modify the tone of the textures on various prims in order to match them more satisfactorily. I would often save pretty complex palettes of graded whites in the course of doing so.

yep understand the issue now, sorry about the misunderstanding.

I do not have that problem, I used to, but it seems to have gone away, not sure why or how.

Did you check to see if it was reported on the jira?

Seriously.

Ignore the button.

Just drag and drop.

See if that works.