Reply To: Volume darker than it should be.

[Sid Edwards]

They’re expecting the colors to match, that’s all, the rest is up to me and watching CG Cookie videos.

Think of it this way: if you spend $2000 for someone to develop a Sky Blue logo, do you want someone to come back and start branding everything with Turquoise or Purple? Not generally, no. There are specific, well-thought instances where you don’t follow the beaten path, but this isn’t really “highly” demanding so much as just an average expectation when doing work for a professional business. Sometimes it’s even worse than that, sometimes businesses spend something like $30,000 paying a marketing agency to develop a brand guide or logo based around market research, so there’s potentially a lot invested in maintaining very specific qualities.

But, I think you’re right to some extent too, if I can fake the lighting so that the human eye can’t see the difference, that’s often good enough too, as long as there’s a record of what the right color should be. But, really, it’s less desirable because the settings change from color to color, I was hoping there was just a single streamlined way to get volumes to appear as a certain color. 

Also, look at CG Cookie. You notice how most of CG Cookie’s usage of color is the same (or similar to) as Blender’s orange? That’s not a coincidence, CG Cookie WANTS you to know that they’re associated with Blender because it’s the basis for the whole platform. If you use a significantly darker or lighter orange, there could be a case for that, but honestly it might just be annoying or incongruent to notice that difference unless you built your platform around distancing yourself from Blender in some way. I do actually see a couple other oranges used too, I don’t know if that’s intentional or not, it might be worth unifying but maybe CG Cookie does want some distance from the Blender foundation too, I don’t know.