What Colo(u)r Is Your Character?

[NickP]

I was doing some research into colo(u)rs for a new website last night when it finally dawned on me that the codes for web colo(u)rs are identical to UPP's (i.e. six hexadecimals from 0-F).

Cue many wasted hours after this keying in UPP's to see what colo(u)rs a whole bunch of NPC's came out as.

Fancy wasting several minutes or hours or your life for absolutely no useful purpose whatsoever? Then try it for yourself at:

http://palettebuilder.com/hexadecimal.aspx

 

[far-trader]

The, well one of I suppose, interesting thing is the average character (good old 777777) is boring bland average gray.

What colour is my character? Far-trader is usually in the range of 796A84 which makes him violent...

...sorry, violet

 

[NickP]

It's also interesting that a dead character of 000000 would be black, whereas a godlike FFFFFF would be white.

 

[Enoki]

Interestingly, a party of 5 I'm working with has four that are some shade of blue and the violent one in the group is bright orange.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Kind of mid gey/blue.

STR, END & EDU tend to drown out the ones following.

 

[Mithras]

bright blue

 

[BytePro]

I have used RGB coloring of UPCs for decades - especially useful for auto-genned NPC listings. Been doing it for so long, haven't even thought about this being unusual.

Consider:

• Darker shades = lower attribute values (mooks).
• Lighter shades = higher attribute values (protagonists)
• Gray shades = more balanced attributes
• More red = relatively higher Str & Dex
• More green = relatively higher End & Int
• More blue = relatively higher Edu & Soc

In more recent years I called this the UPC_Spectrum and have used it with a slider control (I previously used for a waste water treatment plant app) to select the basic attribute balance of NPC I desired. Along with a slider for how 'powerful' (brightness) it lets one easily select an NPC's attributes without giving specific values.

Do note that it puts more emphasis (16x to be precise) on Str, End & Edu. (They form the high nybble of the hex code for each byte of the R, G, B encoding.)

My intent was to do something similar for skills, but I never finished. Now that I'm reminded of this, maybe its time to revisit that project on newer hardware...

 

[Burocrate]

Wot Colour?

6A5984=BLUE

"Little High, Little Low; Will you let me go?"

 

[aramis]

6a5984=blue

"little high, little low; will you let me go?"

6a5984 Try purple. Not blue.


Average guy:


777777 is medium gray

 

[abomination]

Every charactor I try turns out some shade of blue. I think I'll pick a colour & use it to draw up a charactor.

Mmmm bright green 33ff33. That'll be interesting

 

[Rover]

Every charactor I try turns out some shade of blue. I think I'll pick a colour & use it to draw up a charactor.

Mmmm bright green 33ff33. That'll be interesting

That is a very intersting means of chargen.

R