🪅Colour Choice & Strategy
Learn to use colour like a pro, whether you want to choose from the Sandbox Extended Palette or create a custom palette of your own and develop a unique art style for an Experience.
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Learn to use colour like a pro, whether you want to choose from the Sandbox Extended Palette or create a custom palette of your own and develop a unique art style for an Experience.
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Learn about managing one palette in the Modeler's Palette Panel.
Learn about managing multiple shared palettes in a compound or animated asset in the Animator's Library Panel.
Hue is the colour base
Saturation is intensity
Lightness is:
⬆️tint (whiter)
⬇️shade (blacker)
This button switches the colour into a mode that creates the illusion of casting a glowing light from the asset when used in an Experience. Tip: To make an asset shine light on other assets placed in an Experience, use Light behaviour.
A colour sphere (below) is a 3D representation of hue, saturation, lightness, and darkness.
Hue - the pure base of a colour
Tint - lightness applied to a hue
Shade - darkness applied to a hue
Saturation - the intensity applied to a hue
A colour wheel (below) is a simple 2D visual aid that arranges colour by wavelength. It's useful for selecting colour combinations that can be adjusted in lightness/darkness and saturation to create the mood for your art.
A variety of colour strategies are shown below: primary, analogous, secondary, complimentary, square, and split complementary.
EXPERIENCE ART & NFT SALES
Create a unique and cohesive art style for an Experience or a group of related assets to sell on the Marketplace so they blend together quite well.
An easy strategy for creating an attractive palette of colours that work well together:
Pick a hue combination (above)
Set saturation and lightness for mood
Make multiple colour blends with different hues, but similar saturation and lightness
VoxEdit allows for 5 custom palettes per asset in the Animator (one palette per model).
Sometimes an asset just doesn't look right and it's hard to figure out why. Use the ideas below from Designmantic to try some potential solutions.
To save time with pre-made palettes, you can find many resources online, such as Color Hunt.
↕️ Hue Selection
↕️ Light ↔️ Saturation
Emissive Colour (Toggle)
Then you can either copy the colour code shown and paste into VoxEdit's Material Panel or use the new colour picker button in the Palette Panel to add any colour from your screen to the selected palette swatch.