I'm sorry if you've heard this before, but I think adding a Pen RGB block would be nice. Using a complicated math problem to find the pen color is kind of random. It would make it much easier (and cleaner) to have an RGB block, and it wouldn't take away the programming. It would make it easier to do more complicated things without using seemingly random math. Again, I'm sorry if you've seen this before.

The math isn’t random, since colors are stored as 1 byte for red, green, and blue, totaling in 3 bytes per pixel. Since a byte is 8 bits and each bit has 2 possible values, you can calculate 2^8 to find that each byte can store one of 256 different values. The pen blocks will take a number input of the color code, so you can input RGB with the below: (I might have flipped the red and blue inputs.)

So, is it basically hex codes in regular decimal?

Yes. If you want, you can also prefix the raw hex number with 0x (either with a variable or the join block) and Scratch will do the conversion to decimal for you.

Support, the workaround is quite tedious and RGB is a crucial part of programming in the real world.

It's already possible to set pen color using RGB. (It's a somewhat hidden feature though)

If you want a suggestion to not have to use the workaround, this would be a duplicate.

duckboycool wrote:

If you want a suggestion to not have to use the workaround, this would be a duplicate.

Thanks for the link! It does look like this is a duplicate topic so I'll close it to keep the conversation all in one place.

Please use the existing topic in the link above.