Well over the last few weeks I have been talking about design elements and how they work with modding. For a little break I thought why not talk about something everyone usually starts off when describing what mod they are going to do. Seems like that is the jumping off point for everything, “I am going to paint it ……...”



Color is going to visually give character to the mod, and it’s a lot harder than just saying “”Blue and Black”. What color Blue? That a Charcoal Black? How does it fit into the over scheme of the case? Just for this into I am going to give some tips that I have learned to help out on seeing why some colors work and some do not.



First things firstÂ…

What is the persona of the mod?

If you think that this is just a bunch of over analyzed load of whatever. I am here to tell you its not. I mean you go through all that work making a BF2 mod one a case you sure are not going to paint it yellow and purple are you? Color will give an over all closure to a piece, it has meaning, and it has a statement. In addition to that each color will have different effects on a person that looks at it. There are a ton of studies on how color sets persons over all mood and feeling. Just one small and easy to read article I found was this one.



http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html



Second:

Why does one blue look different that another?

You always hear it weather itÂ’s a car paint job or a house paint job. Always buy more than you need because the mix is always going to be different. The blue that you are using that is the royal blue from one manufacture is going to also vary from another. It all depends on what color they use on getting the intensity down. Some will use green, some a little purple and another maybe orange. That is why some colors look better than others when laid next to each other.



Here is a trick that is going to help when looking at the color and deciding if it is going to work for you or not. On a scrap piece of metal spray on a little bit let it dry. Get a stark white piece of poster board or paper and cut a window in it. Put it over the sprayed color and look at it. The reason in doing this is the eye can be confuse with any other element that surround the color making what was mixed in it disappear. The white window will let you see the green in a blue. In addition to that you can also do it with a black window as well. Reason for doing that is to see how it plays against the black. That dark blue might not look to dark against black and can also show off a green tint.



Have a good week and have fun with this little test. See if it describes you

http://www.saunalahti.fi/jawap/colour/colortest.html

Nice write up !!!

Wow, I still remember Roy from grade school. A couple of years ago, I (yes, and I'm doing it again the night of the 18th of July) was waiting until midnight at the bookstore to pick up the new Harry Potter book. When I arrived, they gave me an orange colored slip and said that I would have to wait behind those with the red strip. I said, "Roy G. Biv?" The lady looked at me with suprise and said, "Yes, he's here tonight" (jokingly, of course).

Great write-up, bro....keep 'em coming.

Rob

lucky . .. i can't get my copy until i come home in august. already bought though so it'll be waiting for me. found out two days after i bought it that i paid $10 too much though . .. bought it from the local small bookstore for $29.99 and when i went to see star wars saw it for $17

Another excellnet addition to the series flounder!

My next project is going to be more about color and paint. So this will be referenced.