Color calculations

[ruffgang]

Right.
I've started playing with 'Replace color' in MMF2. How do you retrieve and set a new color through a calculation? Or rather, how does MMF2 equate the specific color?

I tried setting an object to the brightest red color using the number 255, this worked. When i tried to set the color to 255255, expecting bright yellow, it returned bright green. 510 also returns bright red and setting the color to a random of 16 million seems to only return hues between red, yellow and green, no blues in there at all.

Could someone who knows explain this, please?

[Joshtek]

Use the function GetRGB(>Enter red value<, >Enter green value<, >Enter blue value<).

Example: getrgb(255,255,0) for yellow.

Note: This is the same as (Blue*65536 + Green*256 + Red)

[ruffgang]

Thanks.
I also just found out that MMF can't do random above 100,000 or so. Using the Random object gave a lot more colors... huff, you learns something every day.

[Werbad]

I would use GetRGB(random(256),random(256),random(256)), but I guess the Random object works too...

[xyzzy]

Thanks.
I also just found out that MMF can't do random above 100,000 or so. Using the Random object gave a lot more colors... huff, you learns something every day.

i think it's actually 32767... which by MMF's color format is orange

[izac]

I was going to ask the same question