Lego Stud.io - Custom Colours Tutorial

[@KAK_PAN]

This content is GOLD. Thank you for sharing!

[@unpixelled]

Thank you!

[@alostbaron781]

dude you're amazing and it's a shame you haven't posted in awhile! You have a really nice voice ngl!

[@unpixelled]

Thanks! I wanna do more videos but work/life balance is hard with all the projects I have currently

[@tK-fg1nr]

Another amazing tutorial! I find these really helpful

[@unpixelled]

Thanks

[@GenoppteFliese]

Great video! I think I now can create lots of "meta" colors, so I can have colors like "wallpaper1", "wallpaper2", or "test_lbg", "test_dbg" etc. and I hope I can much faster cycle through different designs without accidentially merging colors together ( e.g. by using "select by type and color" and then switching to a common color that is used at many more places).

[@timthebuilder99]

Great video! I tried it, but it did not work. I wanted to make a custom Solid color? Did they change something?

[@unpixelled]

I can't know more without specifics

[@Psycho_Nemesis]

my colors are rendering too bright, if i provide my code could you help provide a fix for this? edit: the color is either a brighter version of what i'm trying to get, OR it's defaulting to gray

[@unpixelled]

I see what you've posted in the stud.io discord and some users have already helped you, but I can provide some more assistance there if you want?

[@nk361]

Could you upload the file for your skopio upgrade moc? or the instructions? I know it has some pieces that are not in the existing colors but I'd still love to have one someday. I'd be willing to pay too

[@unpixelled]

As the instructions have to be created manually, it takes quite some time, I do want to finish them one day but currently they have not been completed

[@nk361]

@@unpixelled hmm is there a way I could download the files and see the pieces in place with it built or something? That does sound like quite a lot of work. I'm mostly curious to see how feasible it might be for me to build it in the future (I know it would be expensive) Thanks!

[@TheLucrav]

Hey, I'm having an issue with rendering custom colors - they look way too bright compared to the default colors. I tried to make a variation of black with a tiny tint of blue and in renders it comes out looking lighter than even the default dark blue despite it being almost black in value. Are there any currently available solutions for more accurate rendering?

[@unpixelled]

It may be due to the render mode you're using and some other elements in your colour, without seeing your code I can't do much else other than recommend you use lower values.

[@ToaChronix]

Two questions: 1. What's the difference between CategoryName and category nickname? Do you just make them the same? 2. The RGB numbers are meant to be decimals between 0 and 1, but every hex to RGB converter I try gives me double digit whole numbers greater than 1. Am I doing something wrong here?

[@unpixelled]

As far as I understand it, category name organises them into stud.io's list of colours, making them appear under that (solids, metallics etc) whereas colour nickname lets you make a different new type to appear under ("luminous (render only)" for example). So I use google's RGB stuff to get colours, first pick the colour you want, get the Hex code and the RGB values, divide the RGB values by 255 and you'll get them in decimal form. Then use the hex code and decimal form RGB values. Hope this helps!

[@D44-x7b]

I did a simple solid for a darker grey. It appears in Studio fine but after rendering, its solid white, any suggestions?

[@unpixelled]

What were the RGB values?

[@D44-x7b]

@@unpixelled i did RGB values from 0-256, not in decimal format from 0-1. Kinda dumb on my end

[@Wyattporter]

If we're creating a completely custom color, we can give it whatever numerical ID we want?

[@unpixelled]

Yes, provided it doesn't clash with any existing colour IDs, that's why I recommend starting in the higher thousands to be safe.

[@Wyattporter]

@@unpixelled thanks

[@breadlord2855]

i need help i tried downloading a custom color pack from the internet and didn't know how to install it properly, so i just put the entire folder into the custom colors one at first it seemed to work but now i'm unable to render pictures, and even after removing the custom pack it won't work if you know how to fix this issue i could really use the help

[@unpixelled]

I'd need more information than that, are you bale to join the stud.io discord?

[@breadlord2855]

@@unpixelled I'll try to join later today, i'm a bit busy at the moment

[@TurbopropPuppy]

you need to make a new version of this because following your instructions to the letter does not work and all of the replies to everyone who has asked about it in the discord have been deleted

[@unpixelled]

I haven't deleted any replies? I don't have the time currently to update this tutorial but the basics of this still absolutely do work. If you have any questions, please @ me or dm me.

[@thejerminator877]

Hello, I've tried following this tutorial to make a custom colour, but I'm having issues with the rendering. The render doesn't come out in the shade I want, and changing the RGB values in the Settings file doesn't help. Even when I change the RGB values in both the Definition file and the Settings file to something completely random, the render still has the exact same shade as before. My first thought is that, for some reason, stud.io isn't detecting the new colour in the Settings file, and is instead using a default colour that just happens to be close. However, I've already had that issue, and fixed it (I think). Can you think of anything else that could cause this?

[@unpixelled]

What ID and name are you giving the colour? If you join the Stud.io discord and share images I can help you a lot easier.

[@thejerminator877]

@@unpixelled The ID Number is 100000, and the name is Canister Green. If you could send me the link, that would be great, and I've also made a post abut it on the TTV Message Boards.

[@phillipPbor]

What about multicolor? It's about two colors together Like a fire Lego piece Red translucent and yellow translucent

[@unpixelled]

This is a more complex colour as you'd need to create a node to manage things like gradients, patterns and anything else to separate the two colours, while that is possible this tutorial was primarily about basic colours and colour concepts.

[@singinreyn]

Do you know of a way to change the color of a painted-on design, like on a lot of the torsos?

[@unpixelled]

As in a part with a decal already applied? There's no way of doing this I'm afraid, you'd need to edit the artwork manually and apply it to the part in Parts Designer.

[@riccardopistillo2173]

make a video of you making bionicle mocs with stud.io and make instructins of the mocs with the istructions maker and render it

[@unpixelled]

While that's a cool idea I don't think I'd do exactly that, perhaps a building tips guide.

[@riccardopistillo2173]

@@unpixelled tip 1: unleash your creativity tip 2: make sure the instrution maker doesen't bug tip 3 (last tip) : rendering is not so hard though because you must ask an esxpert for this

[@unpixelled]

@@riccardopistillo2173 I know that, I regularly do a lot of renders and design a lot of intricate models, but I don't think it would be interesting to watch.

[@riccardopistillo2173]

@@unpixelled that would be intersting to watch

[@unpixelled]

@@riccardopistillo2173 I've already said, I'm not making that a build video but I may do a tips video

[@juliad9715]

Is it possible to make dual-molded colors?

[@unpixelled]

Yes it is! however gradients are not covered in this tutorial, I'll be making another one soon on it though.

[@sword42494]

I can’t find any files called custom colors

[@unpixelled]

Were they not at the locations specified at the start of the video? Check which drive you've installed stud.io on.

[@casperyc]

how to create a color guide in studio (for instructions)?

[@unpixelled]

You go into the insert option in the pages section and select colour guide, you can then select any bricks you want to display the colour of.

[@casperyc]

@@unpixelled THANKS!! Now I got how it works! As I am making a 12 by 9 (16x16), total 27,648 studs mosiac, is there a way to automatically add color guide to each sub model (16 by 16) for each of the 108 steps? Manully adding it takes tooo long.

[@casperyc]

@@unpixelled Or for my huge mosiac, is there a quick way to make instructions like the one for the World Map?

[@dedelebon]

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[@kingsidorak]

Nice mic, kid

[@unpixelled]

The iPhone 6s is the greatest mic out there

[@michaelNXT1]

Hi, hopefully someone could help me with this, I edited the text files correctly but still couldn't see the color in Studio, did I do something wrong? Here are the values (I double checked that there are the correct number of tabs in the row): 600000 600000 600000 600000 Spring Berry Spring Berry Spring Berry Spring Berry #F4CC2E 1.0 Solid Colors 18 to_bl,to_ldd Solid Colors