Color Editor
Use the Color Editor of the Button Magic Material Palette Editor to
Edit the ambient, diffuse, specular, and emissive color.
Find it: Choose Edit > Background in the main Button
Magic window, or, in the Material
Editor, click the boxes next to Amb, Diff, Spec, or Emis to bring
up the Color Editor.

To select a new color, drag the selection box in the color wheel, drag
the sliders on the color bars, or type new values in the boxes. The
quickest way to select a new color is to use Edit > Match Color,
which when clicked allows you to click anywhere on the desktop and then
places that color in the left color box in the dialog.
The color wheel, sliders, and value boxes are grouped; changing one
updates the other two. Note: the color sliders do not appear by
default. To bring them up, choose an item in the Sliders menu.
The new color appears in the farther box to the left of the color
wheel. The previous color is preserved (in the box closer to the color
wheel) until you save the new color. The saved color then replaces the
previous color. Use the arrow buttons below the boxes to move the
colors from one box to another:
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Right Arrow: copies the color in the leftmost box to the
right box.
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Double Arrow: swaps the colors fromt their current boxes to
the opposite box.
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Left Arrow: copies the color in the rightmost box to the
left box.
Edit Menu
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Continuous: As you move the sliders at the bottom of the
window, the target color is continuously updated.
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Manual: When you're ready to change the target color, click Accept.
This setting lets you experiment with colors. It is useful if redrawing
the scene is slow.
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WYSIWYG: Changes sliders from additive colors displayed to
fixed colors. If you are not in WYSIWYG, you create a color by adding
or subtracting color from lighter to darker, and mixing the combination
of slider values. If you are in WYSIWYG, you pick a color on the
bar--there's no adding or subtracting values.
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Copy: Copies the current color. The color boxes show the
current color (left) and stored color (right).
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Paste: Paste a color that you copied.
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Match Color: allows you to change the left-hand color chip
to any color on the desktop. Notice that the cursor changes when you
click the button; move the cursor around to any location on your
desktop and click. The color chip changes to match the color that the
cursor is pointing to.
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Help: launches a Showcase quick reference card on the Color
Editor.
Sliders Menu
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None: Hide all sliders
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Value: Default, shows value only
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RGB: Red, green, blue
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HSV: Hue, saturation, value
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RGBV: Red, green, blue, value
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RGB HSV: Red, green, blue, hue, saturation, value
For further information...
Material Editor
Material Palette