ktulu1347
Knight Lieutenant
Force Alignment: 87
Posts: 201
Nerd for 3 decades plus and darn proud of it
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« on: February 06, 2018, 08:27:24 AM » |
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Headline: I think I've successfully identified which named color each of the 16 color swatches/buttons in the Diamond Express Wizard palette represents. If you just want the data, scroll down to the line across the post and start there. If you want to know the background and my methodology, please read the way too detailed story starting here.
I'm very much a newcomer to the saber world, but I tend to jump into interests with both feet and learn as much as I can as quickly as I can. I recently ordered two Diamond sabers and I was also lucky enough to win an Emerald equipped prize in the recent raffle, so I've been understandably interested in the various blade colors available. Since many of the reference photos on the board are now broken due to PhotoBucket shenanigans, I've searched out the several threads where folks have tried to collect and/or provide suggested settings for the standard and forum colors so that I can try them out on my sabers and get an idea of whether I might want to use one or order a single color saber in a given color.
Of course each author has their own opinion on the settings (which is a feature not a bug according to Deep) and that's cool, but as a nerd and an engineer I like to have defined values for things that I feel have adequate basis in data. I had been guessing at matching colors up with the previous "easy mode" palette (the one still used on the Emerald tab) by comparing values from the threads with values for the various color swatches, but when I tried applying the chosen swatches to my Emerald saber they were way off. I had my Diamond sabers' presets for comparison and I wasn't even close. As I was puzzling over causes and solutions, the recent launcher update happened and changed everything.
Since the new Diamond Express mode palette only had 16 swatches/buttons the probability of picking a match was greatly increased, provided one assumed that the swatches corresponded to named colors. I had also finally thought to look at the color settings from the Diamond default fonts which gave fairly definitive values for a number of colors. Using that information, data from the existing threads, the process of elimination and a little experimentation, I think I've successfully identified which of the 16 color swatches corresponds to which standard or forum color. I think UltraSabers may have changed LED suppliers or the driver circuitry as the mix percentages are sometimes very different from what was listed in the threads of only a few years ago, but the colors seem to look right to the best of my (limited) knowledge using the following correlation. As the RGB sliders are instantly visible in the launcher I've included the values below for the convenience of Emerald owners.
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Diamond Express Wizard Blade Color palette
Row 1 (These are obvious) Blazing Red-Guardian Blue-Consular Green-Adegan Silver R255 | B255 | G255 | W255
Row 2 (Red-Blue combinations) Bane's Heart-Violet Amethyst-Dark Violet Amethyst-Hot Pink R255 B25 | R75 B255 | R50 B255 | R255 B255
Row 3 (Blue-Green combinations) Arctic Blue-Sunrider's Destiny-Emerald Green-unnamed color(Sky Blue?) G255 B255 | G255 B20 | G255 B10 | G55 B255
Row 4 (Red-Green combinations) Sentinel Yellow-Fire Orange-Pyrestone Orange-unnamed color(Lime/Toxic Green?) R175 G255 | R255 G150 | R255 G30 | R50 G255
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I learned a couple of things while doing this. First, the Blue LED US uses is really powerful! Just 20/255 intensity added to full power Green creates the lovely SRD and only 25/255 added to Red gets the striking Bane's Heart. Wow! Second, holy cow some of the forum colors are amazing. I wish more of the photos still existed and/or did them justice, as I was caught off guard by how very nifty some of them looked. Bane's Heart and Pyrestone Orange in particular stood out as extra awesome to me. I'm also a big fan of the unnamed "Sky Blue" of Row 3 Column 4; if it is in fact named and orderable I hope someone enlightens me as I would definitely choose it for a saber or two.
Anyway, I'm glad I tinkered around with this as it opened my eyes as to why many folks love the forum colors and it got me experimenting with my neat new sabers which is an absolute blast. If I got something wrong please let me know, I'd like to get this nailed down for myself at least. If I got it right, I hope others may find it useful. These are my best guesses, your mileage may vary and of course all of the colors can and should be tweaked to your personal preference. Sorry for the long post, I know I tend to ramble but I wanted to explain my methodology so it can be critiqued if necessary. Thanks for reading and happy sabering!
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