color index with material properties

[rajesh_jagmohan]

i want the various index with ambient,diffuse,specular and shininess properties to light the materials with different colors
for example
GREEN
ambient:0.0, 0.0, 0.0
diffuse:0.1, 0.35, 0.1
specular:0.45, 0.55, 0.45
shininess:.25
i want to know other color specification.from where i can get this.

[_arts_]

Don't use index color, it's old and useless now.

[rajesh_jagmohan]

sir,i am not asking for the index.i am asking for the values of ambient,diffuse,specular and shininess values of different colors.

[Alfonse Reinheart]

i want to know other color specification.from where i can get this.

That's not how it works. What you call "green" would still be "green" if you changed the diffuse value to be 0.1, 0.4, 0.1. Color names do not specify a specific wavelength of light; at best, they specify a range of actual wavelengths and colors. There is no one configuration that represents "green." There are configurations that would be seen as various shades of green, but none of them have any greater claim to that name than any others.

The color of a surface depends on its reflective properties (as specified by the material parameters) and the lighting environment. It is entirely possible for a "green" surface to appear grey if you shine a "red" light on it.

[rajesh_jagmohan]

The color of a surface depends on its reflective properties

can u plz tell me the property of surface which make it red,or ble or green or any other color ....i want that properties of material
thanks

[ZbuffeR]

RED:
diffuse:1.0, 0.0, 0.0
BLUE:
diffuse:0.0, 1.0, 0.0
GREEN:
diffuse:0.0, 0.0, 1.0
etc...
To find your exact color, you can use any 2D painting tools such as Gimp to play with settings until you find your color.

For the other parameters, it depends on the type of material.
Most material have white specular, only some metal paints are colored.

[rajesh_jagmohan]

thanks for ur reply

but i m searching for material property in light ie. its diffuse,specular and ambient and shininess to make the material colorful

[_arts_]

Check for material color database, or use a modeler like 3DSMax.

[The Little Body]

Hi,

They are different colors that are used by OpenGL

the ambient color (when the surface isn't lighted)

the diffuse color (when the suface is lighted with a "big" angle)

the specular color (when the normal and the vector defined by (light-position) have a little angle the surface is hightlighted)

We can add

the refracted color (when the normal is "negative", it's an index into a "translucent mocaic")

It's seem that colors materials properties can be shared with different ambiants, diffuses, speculars and refractives colors in each entry

They can be "unified" into a palette with the more 16 ambients colors first, diffuses materials after, speculars materials after and specials refractives colors at the end of the palette

Ambient colors are the more near the "black material"
(cf. index is near 0)

Diffuse colors around "grey values"
(cf. index is between say 16 and 128)

Speculars colors near "white values"
(cf. hightlighed, when indice is > 128 but < 240 for example)

The finals entries on the colormap store the refractives colors (colors 240..256) for handle refractive parts of this "mosaic picture"


Each facet on the mosaic is identified with a specific fragment ID shared in a 256 LUT

The palette store 256 differents (ambiant/diffuse/reflect/refract) colors/pixel shaders IDs, where each entry select a "specific/programmable" fragment shader ID to use.

[The Little Body]

Arts, why the material/color index method is useless ???

Ok, it's effectively very old

But not as useless as this ...
(this can be used for simple toon shading too for example)

And with a palette, we have the possibility to select the good "color/material" into a palette => this can to be an advantage for to select the four colors/materials to be interpolated into a futur extented DXT compression that handle directely the ambiant, diffuse and specular term (in this case each palette entry isn't only a RGBA color, but a "colored material properties" that have a RGBA ambiant term, a RGBA diffuse term and a RGBA specular term).

Using only one indexed texture that can work with an ambiant/diffuse/specular palette (cf. a texture with width*height 8 bits index values + a palette of 256 entries with distincts ambiant/diffuse/specular RGBA terms) seem me very more economic is size (in fact something like 12x) that to use 3 width*height textures filled by 32 bits rgba8888 values ...

This can certainly to be make with a fragment shader ?