From: Dylan Penhale <dylan@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Colours in iRush
   Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:58:31 -0400

Hi there

Regards

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Dylan Penhale wrote:
> I know colours were covered recently in irush but it has recently  
> been mentioned to me that compositors prefer a much darker colour  
> scheme, especially when using shake in a dark room). The reason is  
> that when they have to switch to iRush to check render job status  
> they are blinded by the whiteness. It takes their eyes a few seconds  
> to readjust to shake again. We have been able to modify the colour  
> schemes in all of our other applications but not iRush.
> 
> Is it possible to have either some control of the background colour  
> in iRush, or perhaps a reverse colours switch in the prefs? I'm  
> pretty certain we can't change the colours at the moment.

	Right, you can't change them currently.

	However, I just now hacked a 'colormap' command into the
	irushrc file loader, so that one can redefine any of the
	colors in irush's colormap.

	Name one of the platforms (linux/osx/win), and I'll provide
	you a binary and an irushrc file you can experiment with.

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Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
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Fantastic, thanks Greg!

However, surely you mean colourmap  (sorry, couldn't resist) :)

OSX would be great.


|-----Original Message-----
|From: Greg Ercolano [mailto:erco@(email surpressed)]
|Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2007 3:57 PM
|To: void@(email surpressed)
|Subject: Re: Colours in iRush
|
|[posted to rush.general]
|
|Dylan Penhale wrote:
|> I know colours were covered recently in irush but it has recently
|> been mentioned to me that compositors prefer a much darker colour
|> scheme, especially when using shake in a dark room). The reason is
|> that when they have to switch to iRush to check render job status
|> they are blinded by the whiteness. It takes their eyes a few seconds
|> to readjust to shake again. We have been able to modify the colour
|> schemes in all of our other applications but not iRush.
|>
|> Is it possible to have either some control of the background colour
|> in iRush, or perhaps a reverse colours switch in the prefs? I'm
|> pretty certain we can't change the colours at the moment.
|
|	Right, you can't change them currently.
|
|	However, I just now hacked a 'colormap' command into the
|	irushrc file loader, so that one can redefine any of the
|	colors in irush's colormap.
|
|	Name one of the platforms (linux/osx/win), and I'll provide
|	you a binary and an irushrc file you can experiment with.
|
|--
|Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
|Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/
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|Fax: (Tel# suppressed)
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Dylan Penhale wrote:
> OSX would be great.

	Done:
	http://www.seriss.com/rush/releases/patches-for-102.42a8/irush-102.43-pre-mac-colormap-theme.tar.gz

	Follow up with all questions to me directly via email, not the group.
	(let's save everyone some noise)

	1) To install, extract the tar file, which contains:

		irush    -- mac OSX binary
		.irushrc -- Sample .irushrc file containing colormap and theme commands

	2) Install the irush executable here, renaming out the old one first:
	   /usr/local/rush/Applications/irush.app/Contents/MacOS/irush
	   (Make sure it's chmod +x of course)

        3) Install the .irushrc file on the target machine (renaming out the old one first):
	   /usr/local/rush/etc/.irushrc
           When irush starts, it loads this file automatically.

        4) Try running irush; it should load normally, quit.

	5) Now you can play with the colors in the .irushrc file.
	   All the colormap commands are commented out.. there's one line
	   for all of the 256 colors in irush's colormap.

           If you want to e.g. change the color of irush's tty background
	   from white to gray, uncomment the 'colormap 255 255 255 255' line,
	   and change it to read:

		# colormap 255 255 255 255
		colormap 255 50 50 50		# makes tty window gray

	   You may also want to change the 'theme' line from 'theme Default'
	   to 'theme Plain+Gray' or 'theme Plain+Tan', so that the colors you
	   get are accurate. (The default theme on OSX is 'plastic', which
	   lightens all the colors by default, so setting the theme to Plain
	   will prevent this 'color lightening')

	   Other colormap entries can be changed similarly. If artists want
	   to change particular colors, they can try by experiment, or ask me
	   what the color index number is for specific parts of the irush interface.

	Once you've made changes to the .irushrc file, just start up irush,
	and it will use the colors/theme you set.

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