Palette Tools

The palette tool consists of four buttons, which indicate its current mode, and a palette of 256 colors. The currently selected color in the palette has a red outline, and it also appears in the rectangle below the palette.

Modes

There are four different modes to the palette.

Fill

The default mode, where clicking on a paintable panel will fill it with the selected color in the palette.

Pickup

When this mode is active, clicking on a panel will select its color in the palette. For instance, if you have a color on the car that you want to paint another panel with, you would select the Pickup tool, click the panel, then switch over to Fill mode and click the panel that you want to paint.

Darken

With this mode active, clicking on a panel will paint it with the next darker color available in the palette. If there is no darker color, nothing will happen.

Brighten

With this mode active, clicking on a panel will paint it with the next brighter color available in the palette. If there is no brighter color, nothing will happen.

Keyboard shortcuts

When you are on the Cars or Helmets tab, you can use the + and - keys to select the next brighter (+) or next darker (-) color in the palette.

Notes

If you select any color from the second row from the top (the row where the left half of the colors are green and the right ones are gray) then ArgEditor will display a little warning at the bottom. This is because those colors may be slightly brighter or darker at different tracks, depending on how the specific track adjusts the grass and asphalt colors.

For example, Magny-Cours has a much darker asphalt color than most other tracks.

There is also a group of blue colors that will display a warning that these colors turn gray a lot during wet races. For the default cars, you may have noticed this behavior for the Leyton House cars.