arrays of color?

[woodslanding]

I am putting color values into an array, but it is not working. I get all 0's out..... I seem to remember somewhere that they are not compatible?

What's the proper way to do this?

[nay-seven]

You can use the output of an HSLA color to fill your array

[23fx23]

Colors are RGBA signed int32 values, not float32 like classical values, so depending on their value they will output a number that is above float32 precision,
and display 'NAN', so it's not safe imo to manipulate with 'classical' float wires like arrays and all.
should use dedicaced color modules like color selector or color dispatcher.

[woodslanding]

Nay:

so are you saying the color output on the HSLA is a different format than the regular color? Or are you saying to create arrays of H,S,L and A, and reconstruct the color at the other end?

I might try the latter, and see if it works. In my application, using color selectors seams really, really heavy.

[nay-seven]

yes, 1

[23fx23]

be aware HSLA or RGBA work only for few cases, ie won't work for for exemple HSLA = 0,1,1,1 or with high lum and apha will gets lots of nans. if the hexa result is above float32 precision it still displays Not a Number. so if planing using standards arrays, should check their conversion values first. i think colors array will probably comme with HH3, sdk metion them, by waiting could make a polyphonic patch with ie a simple color fader or colors io to quickly generate a 'color array'

[woodslanding]

by waiting could make a polyphonic patch with ie a simple color fader or colors io to quickly generate a 'color array'

but how would you send it anywhere?? Can colors even go through busses safely? I thought all values in usine were just 1 item arrays....

Are the individual values for HS and L also not normal usine flows?

What I did was make 2 different arrays, one for HUES and one for SATURATIONS. Then at the recieving end, I feed the appropriate items from each array to an HSL module. saturation and level controls are set at the destination. So far it has worked.....

[23fx23]

sorry i retried quickly and saw i made a mistake, they are displayed as nan in array but the values still are passed internally in fact, so yes colors work with busses, and man can collect them to a classical array and send the whole to a bus as well, then demultiplex on the other side. H, S L are floats so it's sure there is no problem if using those arrays. i like to do this way too. the only problems
but so i don't understand, in wich situation did you 'get 0s out' of array?

[woodslanding]

the 0's seem to be from a bug unrelated to color. I got the 0's with H and S also. Seems to be a poly buss receive problem.

I'm happy just sending H and S tho. It works well, and I can control L globally to have a brightness control for the whole wkp!