gmax is a truecolor program. When you pick a color in the program, you are specifying 24 bits of color data, which provide a range of over 16 million colors.
Object wireframe colors are used primarily as an organizational tool. Object naming strategies, named selection sets, and object wireframe color strategies provide a rich set of tools for organizing even the most complex scenes.
You can use two dialogs to specify colors:
The Object Color dialog contains two preset palettes of colors that you use to set an objectÆs wireframe color. This is also the surface color you see in a shaded viewport. The two color palettes are gmax palette and AutoCAD ACI palette.
The Color Selector is a generic dialog that you use to define any color in the 24-bit color range. For the purpose of defining colors to assign to objects, it is available only through the gmax palette.