Colors: and how to use them

[MangoMan5689]

As many of you may know when you attempt to change colors of things in Besiege whether it be the color of rocket explosions or the color of objects in the level editor there's a slider with an array of colors and some obscure 6-digit letter and number combination with a hashtag(#) before it such as #ff0033 or #0037ff(Red and Blue).

These number are called HTML or Hex codes and obviously allow a long range of colors to be picked with a simple line of letters and numbers. Since Besiege's slider doesn't allow as large a range of lightness and darkness of colors that exist with HTML and Hex codes, below I've added links to a few sources where you can utilize the range of light and dark colors along with colors such as black, grey and white.

Google's featured snippet slider:

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https://www.google.com/search?q=hex...2.69i57j0l5.3700j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

A more detailed color picker while a bit harder to use:

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https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp

Basic colors not available via the slider:

Spoiler: Pure White

#ffffff

Spoiler: Solid Grey

#808080

Spoiler: Pure Black

#000000

Side note: This is my first post, sorry if it isn't easy to navigate, find key points, and that the picture didn't help or didn't work.

 

[ITR]

Actually, these aren't called HTML, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is used to code websites, which uses a 24bit color system, meaning it uses 3 bytes to represent color. These 3 bytes are basically numbers ranging from 0 to 255, which then are used to represent the amount of Red, Green, and Blue the color should have.

The useful thing about the numbers being from 0 to 255 is that it makes them range from 0 to 16^2-1, meaning you can represent them in hex, which allows you to use a pair 0-9 and a-f to represent each number, making it so you easily limit each number to be two digits without having to check for illegal values. This means that FF4C00 (which is split up into FF, 4C, 00) is the same as 255, 76, 00, as in, 255 red, 76 green, and 0 blue.

So basically, though it is hex, hex isn't exclusive to colors, it's just a way to represent a number that's often used for colors, and HTML is just a markup language that uses that representation

 

[MangoMan5689]

Actually, these aren't called HTML, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is used to code websites, which uses a 24bit color system, meaning it uses 3 bytes to represent color. These 3 bytes are basically numbers ranging from 0 to 255, which then are used to represent the amount of Red, Green, and Blue the color should have.

The useful thing about the numbers being from 0 to 255 is that it makes them range from 0 to 16^2-1, meaning you can represent them in hex, which allows you to use a pair 0-9 and a-f to represent each number, making it so you easily limit each number to be two digits without having to check for illegal values. This means that FF4C00 (which is split up into FF, 4C, 00) is the same as 255, 76, 00, as in, 255 red, 76 green, and 0 blue.

So basically, though it is hex, hex isn't exclusive to colors, it's just a way to represent a number that's often used for colors, and HTML is just a markup language that uses that representation

Do you think I should change the article or leave it since people can just scroll down and see my mistake?

 

[ITR]

Do you think I should change the article or leave it since people can just scroll down and see my mistake?

It doesn't really matter that much, since it's not the essence of the article you can just leave it be

 

[DJSigmann]

Honestly, for anyone that already knows even a bit about hex colours or even just the RGB colour sets, this serves no purpose.
But for those that don't know about it, this more than suffices.
This was not completely pointless.

 

[markgeven]

Check these...color codes

 

[Vouboul]

This really help me. Thanks !