funny magic numbers

[Stefan Andersson]

One number is green, one is gray.

#python script
current = Application.Preferences.GetPreferenceValue("Scenecolors.backgroundcol")
if current == 16711935:
Application.Preferences.SetPreferenceValue("Scenecolors.backgroundcol",
2139062271)
Application.LogMessage("Viewport Color will be gray")
else:
Application.Preferences.SetPreferenceValue("Scenecolors.backgroundcol",
16711935)
Application.LogMessage("Viewport Color will be green")
Application.SceneRefresh()
# end python script

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[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

These are 8-bit RGB color put in an integer.
I don't have python installed on this machine.. but here is the code in JScript

var value = 16711935;

// this already tells you everything...
LogMessage( "Hexadecimal Value:" + value.toString( 16 ) );

LogMessage( "Red:" + ((value>>24) & 0xff));
LogMessage( "Green:" + ((value>>16) & 0xff));
LogMessage( "Blue:" + ((value>>8) & 0xff));
LogMessage( "Alpha:" + ((value>>0) & 0xff));

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Autodesk Softimage Team Leader

[Matt Lind]

And if you want to make people really ill, create an OnPlayBack event to modify the values every frame ;-)

Matt

[Graham D Clark]

ah the xsi pranks we've played :)
bad Matt
cheers

Hey Stefan, view source on this to see an example of setting it:
http://www.grahamdclark.com/Studentresources/tutorials/XSIGUI/gdcXSIGUInetEg.html
part of the script before that doesnt work anymore in newer versions of xsi, but hey maybe something useful to gank out
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