Author:  Admin_Russell  Posted:  Oct 11, 2023 09:31  Subject:  Re: Color issue with 2546p02, Bird, Parrot with S  Viewed:  51 times  Topic:  Colors Cancel Reply

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In Colors, SylvainLS writes:    In Colors, Jacob_Pf writes:    The red variant of   *  2546p02 Bird, Parrot with Small Beak with Marbled Red Pattern Parts: Animal, Air    does not exist. It is not part of a set and has no images. Its existence is just a result of people disagreeing whether the green or the red part of the parrot is the base color. Therefore, the red version should be removed from the catalog. Sorry, my fault for not being clearer / more complete on the Studio forum last night. The problem stems from a difference between LDraw and BrickLink: — for BL, the part has a Red marbling on a Green part, — for LDraw, the bottom is Green (fixed) and the rest is in the variable colour. Studio uses the LDraw part but with the BL catalogue.  So, following the catogue, the only available colour for Studio is Green… but if you paint the part Green, it comes all Green.  The part needs to be painted Red to look as the real part… but then it’s marked as being in the wrong colour and you don’t get the price in Studio. There’s two possible solutions for that: 1. Have Studio use a modified 3D model (with the colours swapped) to match the catalogue, 2. Have the catalogue change its view to match LDraw’s: the part is Red with a Green marbling not Green with a Red marbling. (1) may be the easiest.  There’s others parts for which it’s been done (dual-moulded arms for instance). For (2), well, note that the part is named 2546p02 for both BL and LDraw.  It’s not 2546pb02 for BL.  So, if there’s a policy to keep older common IDs common (as examplified by the keeping of, and reverting to, x… IDs), changing the BL part doesn’t seem impossible. It was changed in the BrickLink Catalog from Red to Green in Jan 2015: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogReqList.asp?nID=&viewDate=Y&viewType=E&viewStatus=A&itemID=82842 So this suggestion would simply be a reversal of that.

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Re: Color issue with 2546p02, Bird, Parrot with S - SylvainLS (46)

[...] (Part 2546p02) [...] Sorry, my fault for not being clearer / more complete on the Studio forum last night. The problem stems from a difference between LDraw and BrickLink: [...] (8 months ago, Oct 11, 2023, to Colors)

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Re: Color issue with 2546p02, Bird, Parrot with S - SylvainLS (46)

[...] Ah yes, indeed :) I wonder what was the rationale at this time (and if it still holds): bottom is Green so it’s the main/variable colour and Red is the “pattern”? (8 months ago, Oct 11, 2023, to Colors)

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