Fractal Architect 3 Help Index

Overwrite Gradient With Panel

Applies to:FAFA 3DFA 3D-AV

Roll Dice Button - Easy Random Color Stop Generation

Click on this to easily create a totally random color collection Color harmony schemes are ignored here.

Random Color Stop Generator Tab

This tab provides a random color generator that can create random color collections that obey specific color harmony rules.

Available Color Harmony Schemes

No Scheme

No color harmony scheme used.

Grayscale

Strictly gray colors of varying brightness & saturation.

Monochromatic

Strictly one color of varying brightness & saturation.

Analogous

Starting color plus two other colors offset 30 degrees on color wheel from starting color.

Complementary

Starting color plus one other color offset 180 degrees on color wheel from starting color.

Split-Complementary

Starting color plus two other colors offset 150 and 210 degrees on color wheel from starting color.

Triadic

Starting color plus two other colors offset 120 and 240 degrees on color wheel from starting color.

Tetradic 1

Starting color plus three other colors offset 60, 240, and 300 degrees on color wheel from starting color.

Tetradic 2

Starting color plus three other colors offset –60, 120, and 180 degrees on color wheel from starting color.

Create Totally Random Colors

Specify the number of color stops to generate. Set the Color Harmony setting to No Scheme.

Create Random Colors using Specific Color Harmony Scheme

Specify the number of color stops to generate. Set the Color Harmony setting to desired setting. Select one starting color, if applicable.

Setting Random Color Weights to Specific Color Harmony Scheme

Set desired color’s slider to some value other than zero. Random colors will be chosen proportional to weight contribution.

Add some Random Colors to Specific Color Harmony Scheme

Set Extra Random Colors slider to some value other than zero. Other random colors will be chosen proportional to weight contribution.

Example of Random Grayscale Colors

Here 10 color stops, grayscale color scheme, and extra random color weight of 10% are selected.

Standard Gradients Tab

Over 600 different predefined gradients are included.

Select one of rows with the mouse and click the Use button or simply double click with the mouse on a row.

Dockable Preview pane

Click on the Detach button to detach the preview pane. Move and/or resize it as desired. The preferred location is sticky and will be remembered.

When the preview pane is detached, click on the Attach button to reattach the preview pane.

Gradient Stash Tab

This tab allows you to create a collection of gradients and optionally save them to an external file. Since undo capability is not supported for color gradients, this tab allows you to save the current color gradient to the list.

Overwrite current color gradient with one on list

To overwrite the current color gradient with one on the list, select one of the rows and click the Use button.

Add current color gradient to end of list

Click the + button.

Overwrite gradient on the list with the color gradient

To overwrite one of the gradients on the list with the current color gradient, select one of the rows and click the Overwrite button.

Remove one of the gradients on the list

Select one of the rows and click the - button.

Load the color gradients from an external gradient file (ends with .ugr)

Click the Load button.

Save the color gradients to an external gradient file (ends with .ugr)

Click the Save button.