Script request:Video color picker OR Video Tracking mod

super8mm · Post by **super8mm** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:48 pm

Basing its plausibility with the video tracking script that samples a color in a video to track.

It could even be a combo tool that tracks a video and displays the color it's tracking. Displayed as a hex or RGB.

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:05 pm

why would you need to know the exact colour it's tracking? out of interest...

super8mm · Post by **super8mm** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:27 pm

funksmaname wrote:why would you need to know the exact colour it's tracking? out of interest...

I wanted to overlap an actor with an animated character but some parts need some patches. When the actor isn't completely hidden I would put patches that match the background color.

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Sat Sep 25, 2010 11:41 pm

ah right... hmm...

super8mm · Post by **super8mm** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:03 am

After searching here I'll have to resort to 3d party software.

http://www.wincatalog.com/getcolor.html ... GetColor_m

Rudiger · Post by **Rudiger** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:11 pm

I'm sure the 3rd party solution you found will do the job, but just wanted to mention that it is possible to do it all inside AnimeStudio. Under windows, the Lua interpreter in AS lets you import functions from dlls and these function can have the low-level system access you need to access the pixel colour. I wrote such a dll to access clipboard. Unfortunately, the library I wrote for accessing the pixel colour was for the Mac OS. Anyway, I just though it was worth mentioning in case you wanted to have the patches automatically track the color of the video background or something.