Use of RGB or HEX codes in Livery Editor

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Hi all,

I’m coming out of semi-retirement to post something about this officially. There are many talented painters in the Forza community that can create amazing replicas of real-world racing liveries. In my experience, one of the (many) hurdles that livery designers have to overcome is that Forza still uses a version of HSB codes for their in-game colors.

From my experience, HSB color codes are not nearly as widely used or publizied as some other web color code systems such as RGB or HEX. These types of color codes can easily be found online just through a little Googling. Search results for HSB color codes however are not as common. There are a wide variety of conversation websites that can easily transform RGB and HEX to HSB, but as Forza uses a different version of HSB, these conversations are never perfect. Painters still have to do more work to find the right color. It would help the livery designers of Forza had the option to type in these colors and have the in-game editor convert it for them.

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CMYK would also be welcome!

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While natively changing the colour system to something the rest of the design landscape uses would make sense (and would no doubt aid developers too), this should serve as a workaround for anyone doing the conversions themselves. I’ve intentionally set up the math to produce answers to three decimal points, as we (as the end user) do not know what the “Left” and “Right” painters refer to the number pairs as, actually mean as numbers on a 0.000-1.000 scale.

This was only developed to the point where a small user group could reasonably utilise it at one time, and, while I’m not here to hawk myself or my work, I encourage anyone who has a Google Sheet of their own to duplicate the sheet/s off to their own document, or I’m happy to help with that if need be. I just want to make life easier, I’ve sunk enough time into trying to understand the math required and getting it to work nicely within a single formatted page.

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