THIS IS NOT A THREAD TO DISCUSS COLORHAXING IN ITSELF AS A MAPPING TECHNIQUE. THIS IS A THREAD REGARDING HOW TO COLORHAX IN A NOT-PAINFUL WAY.
^ colorhaxing in a nutshell: you can use the little arrow next to the New Combo button to give combos specific colors. This is often times used to give different sections of a map different color schemes (such as darker, stronger colors for kiai, as an example).
So, seeing as how a lot of people like colorhaxing (combo color systems), I figured I'd make a thread on the "ideal" way of colorhaxing. By that, I mean the way that will cause you the least headache when you need to do make changes to your combos and stuff. I realize that this may seem obvious to some people, but I've seen a lot of maps that do it in a less-than-ideal way. By that, I don't mean "wrong" per se, but they certainly give the mapper a lot more trouble later. I just want to make colorhaxing easier for the people that like do it.
In English... DON'T put all the colors of the first set, then all the ones of the second set, etc. etc.. Rather, put one color of the first set, then one color of the second... so on and so forth.
EXAMPLE: Let's say you want four light colors to make up one set, and four dark ones to make up another set.
EXAMPLE OF POOR (as in, will cause much headache in future) COLOR SYSTEM:
Here, the first set is 1,2,3,4 and the second is 5,6,7,8. Seems pretty ideal, and this is what I see a lot of people doing. But if you need to NC or remove an NC... well, have fun!
EXAMPLE OF BETTER (as in, will cause less headache in future) COLOR SYSTEM:
Here, the first set is 1,3,5,7 and the second is 2,4,6,8. If you need to NC or remove an NC, you won't screw up everything after it! Yay!
\:D/
(will make a video later...)
^ colorhaxing in a nutshell: you can use the little arrow next to the New Combo button to give combos specific colors. This is often times used to give different sections of a map different color schemes (such as darker, stronger colors for kiai, as an example).
So, seeing as how a lot of people like colorhaxing (combo color systems), I figured I'd make a thread on the "ideal" way of colorhaxing. By that, I mean the way that will cause you the least headache when you need to do make changes to your combos and stuff. I realize that this may seem obvious to some people, but I've seen a lot of maps that do it in a less-than-ideal way. By that, I don't mean "wrong" per se, but they certainly give the mapper a lot more trouble later. I just want to make colorhaxing easier for the people that like do it.
TECHNICAL WORDING
Let's say you have m color sets of n colors each. (m x n cannot exceed 8, since there are only 8 slots for combo colors.)
Then, you should make all the colors in the kth color set congruent to k (mod m).
Then, you should make all the colors in the kth color set congruent to k (mod m).
In English... DON'T put all the colors of the first set, then all the ones of the second set, etc. etc.. Rather, put one color of the first set, then one color of the second... so on and so forth.
EXAMPLE: Let's say you want four light colors to make up one set, and four dark ones to make up another set.
EXAMPLE OF POOR (as in, will cause much headache in future) COLOR SYSTEM:
Here, the first set is 1,2,3,4 and the second is 5,6,7,8. Seems pretty ideal, and this is what I see a lot of people doing. But if you need to NC or remove an NC... well, have fun!
EXAMPLE OF BETTER (as in, will cause less headache in future) COLOR SYSTEM:
Here, the first set is 1,3,5,7 and the second is 2,4,6,8. If you need to NC or remove an NC, you won't screw up everything after it! Yay!
LIST OF POSSIBILITIES
2 sets of colors: Put one set in the left column, and the other set in the right.
2 colors each:
3 colors each:
4 colors each:
3 sets of colors, 2 colors each: Put one set (light blue and green, in this example) in Combos 1 and 4, another (dark purple and blue, in this example) in 2 and 5, and the last (brown and gray, in this example) in 3 and 6.
4 sets of colors, 2 colors each: Put one set (light blue and green, in this example) in Combos 1 and 5, another (dark purple and blue, in this example) in 2 and 6, another (brown and gray, in this example) in 3 and 7, and the last (red and orange, in this example) in 4 and 8.
2 colors each:
3 colors each:
4 colors each:
3 sets of colors, 2 colors each: Put one set (light blue and green, in this example) in Combos 1 and 4, another (dark purple and blue, in this example) in 2 and 5, and the last (brown and gray, in this example) in 3 and 6.
4 sets of colors, 2 colors each: Put one set (light blue and green, in this example) in Combos 1 and 5, another (dark purple and blue, in this example) in 2 and 6, another (brown and gray, in this example) in 3 and 7, and the last (red and orange, in this example) in 4 and 8.
\:D/
(will make a video later...)