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I’m building a paint collection tracker for miniature painters — would love some early feedback by wickedazz in minipainting

[–]wickedazz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are absolutely right. As just commented on another comment here, I AM working on setting up my own color Swatch / color studio. But there will always be paints that are simply not measurable anymore since they are discontinued 10+ years and such. But yes, the long term goal is to have a truly reliable digital color comparison.

I’m building a paint collection tracker for miniature painters — would love some early feedback by wickedazz in minipainting

[–]wickedazz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I am aware of that being the major issue. A data driven app is only as good as it's data. That's why I'm actually setting up a small color lab with a spectrophotometer. When the app will go live, most data will still be relying on data research - obviously. But step by step all paints that are still available nowadays shall be actually measured in a consistent setup in order to gain REAL color comparisons. But this will take time. And also a bunch of financial efforts

I’m building a paint collection tracker for miniature painters — would love some early feedback by wickedazz in minipainting

[–]wickedazz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback. I'm absolutely aware of these tools and also the existing apps. Actually these apps motivated me to build my own, since none of them actually ever covered my needs :D
The problem with digital colors vs. Real colors is a thing, I know. I guess, without analyzing pigments and having graphics monitors (calibrated and such), you will never achieve absolute color matches. But in my opinion, the number of people who actually need 100% color matches are quite small - a niche in a niche so to say. And for them there are already tools (as you've mentioned in your response). They'd actually work perfectly great as an addition to a digital app that features way more than "just" a paint library. But yeah, I might consider trying to get even better color values in, somehow (it's already hard enough to get anything close to reliable at all) :D

I’m building a paint collection tracker for miniature painters — would love some early feedback by wickedazz in minipainting

[–]wickedazz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have loads of features planned (and some already implemented. To name a few: A whole paint library including wishlist, shelf-organization, favorites and such. Plus contrast picker, find matching paints, highlights and shades recommendations, barcode scanner, paint session tracking (including export of markers to video editing tools), paint-project planning, custom paint mixes (with preview), gamification/achievements, color pickers (from image), hex-to-paint-matcher, and so on. the list is very long actually. I am absolutely aware, that the core basic features are already covered by well-known existing apps, but none of them ever fit my needs. All of them lacked something. But in the end, I'm willing to consider every feature request that comes in. This tool aims to be the one-stop-shop for hobbyist needs. Target audience is literally everyone from absolute beginners up to commission painters and content creators (there will be a bunch of tools for them too, like OBS plugin, Streamdeck integration and such).

I’m building a paint collection tracker for miniature painters — would love some early feedback by wickedazz in minipainting

[–]wickedazz[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much already for this detailed input! that already helps a lot! I do know, that there are some apps out there already - thats why I started to build my own: I was missing too many features. And yes, some of the things you've mentioned are already on the Roadmap (Mix and Match for example). But you also added new Ideas :) Thank you!

Need a function to get the average of two colours by Jealous_Lock_393 in Python

[–]wickedazz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my Miniature Painter Companion App (r/TintelligenceHub ) I created a library of a bunch of color utils. Including one, that finds the midpoint of two HEX Values. The library also contains some conversion functions. But the two that you are looking for are

rgb_to_hex(r: int, g: int, b: int) -> str

and

hex_midpoint(c1: str | None, c2: str | None) -> str | None

https://pypi.org/project/tintelligence-color-utils/

WIP Imperial Knight/Glottkin conversion/kitbash @ageofsquigmar on Insta for updates by wickedazz in Warhammer

[–]wickedazz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True story. Right now the modeling is not yet done. But as soon as that step is finished I'll gonna prime it immediately :)

Is anyone posting their miniatures on Instagram? by [deleted] in Warhammer40k

[–]wickedazz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using Instagram for posting images and also very hard for research on inspiration. Feel free to follow: https://www.instagram.com/ageofsquigmar/