Alt + Click not working in Artrage 6 to quick sample color. What am I missing?

[markw]

Well this is most strange then
As I said earlier, on Macs, even in past versions of AR, you can not change text colour by alt sampling existing colours from elsewhere on the canvas. Only from Reference Images can you do this.
If you are on a Mac then I’m afraid I can offer no explanation as to how you were able to do this before.

Are you on Windows?
There was an old bug in Windows that for awhile, until it was corrected, would let you paint on a flipped canvas while holding down the H key. But this was never intended behaviour and was never possible on Macs.
And I’m wondering if this might be, or was, a similar quirk that was only possible on one OS and not the other And in AR6 on Windows has likewise been "fixed" for want of a better term.

[Enug]

I've been following this discussion and thought I would try it myself. I agree with Mark. I'm on Windows 10 and have AR4,5 and6. I could not change the colour of the text by choosing a colour from the canvas on any of my AR versions. The canvas colours and text are on different layers and if I go to the colours on canvas layer I lose the highlight on the text. If I merge the text and the canvas colour layer it is no longer a text layer. Another text layer is created.

I can change the colour of the text from the colour wheel and ref image as Mark has already said. I'm also puzzled how you were able to change text colour from the colour on a canvas layer.

[Polioliolio]

Hm. Okay, now I'm checking in artrage 4. I could have sworn I could do this text thing. I must be losing my mind.

However, my original issue was resolved after resetting, as you suggested, Mark.
Thank you. I guess that's case closed.

Except, I would actually make a suggestion for the art rage team to allow text color to be changed in the way I was raving about.
That you can highlight, and then alt click on the canvas, and text color will change. It'd just be a shortcut instead of having to make samples of your decided colors first, highlight text, then click on the sample.


Man, I could have sworn you could do this text thing. Maybe in my dreams.

[mikahawkins1]

Try pressing Alt+Ctrl+Click