Chris Dee Wrote:To provide only official LEGO Part Shapes, but allow them to be rendered in any colour, including non-issued colours. The library will not include custom shapes, but by rendering a patterned part in a different colour you can obviously generate something that was not issued by LEGO.
Thats is absolutely understandable. For shapes this is a good final answer. But it is no answer for patterns, is it? If you handle them the same, color 16 would be the right choice for the discussed parts. Otherwise: May I submit the attached part to the parts tracker (don't worry! I won't)? It is an official LEGO Part Shape, but it is precolored (patterned) in a way it does not exist physically (it is used in the computer game LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, so it could even perhaps treated as an official LEGO part ). I think this is a custom pattern.
My achivements giude exactly to the initial statement:
Chris Dee Wrote:By convention, we only model the printed colours of patterns and use colour 16 for any unprinted areas.And my opinion is that we should keep the convention.
Rolf