[LSC] colors

[Philo]

Michael Heidemann wrote:


>   Good work Philo.


Thanks.


> No, you are not blind. I tried MLCad an there is Trans_Black no. 32. I 

> am very confused with the colors and therefor I think it is time for the 

> LSC to takeover the ownership and maintanence for that!

> 

> There are several aspects that we have to care about. First of all the 

> name of the color. Should it be with abbraviations like "DrkStone" or 

> all written with "_" between the words (Dark_Stone). I think, as it is 

> already like a standard the second version should be fixed.

> 

I prefer the _ version as it is already in ldconfig.


> For the communication about the colors we should use html-files, because 

> everybody can read that on their system and it is easy to change it. A 

> sample what I am talking about is attached.

> This is because I had wrong colors in the excel sheet (maybe because I 

> am using Excel 97).

> 

No, I think the Excel colors are plain wrong (at least in Brickfinder 
file), indeed html would be best.

My problem with colors is that RGB values as received from LEGO do not 
quite match LDraw definitions. I guess there are good reasons for that, 
but I'm lacking background here.

Philo