<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You’re ncl version is many years old. This might not be a problem of version, but a lot of the colour functionality has improved a fair amount since 6.0. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mainly. in 6.0 colours (or the nearest? equivalent) are pulled from the colormap. When you upgrade, colours do not have to be in the colormap and thus your named colours will be what you expect. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 Mar 2016, at 16:47, Ryan Connelly <<a href="mailto:rconne01@gmail.com" class="">rconne01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="">I'm using V6.0.0. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" class="">Trying to fill in my map background in a light tan and make my state lines a dark brown. Should be easy, but something is bonkers. When I use named color variables, the state line color will sometimes plot as something else ("Brown" plots as red, "Green" plots as blue, "Grey30" plots as purple, etc.). I also cannot get the map fill color to be anything at all, named color or number.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here's the section that contains my map plotting options:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class="">; Set some basic resources</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> res = True</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> res@MainTitle = "REAL-TIME WRF"</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> pltres = True</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres = True</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpGeophysicalLineColor = "orange4" ; inexplicably picks a random different color</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpNationalLineColor = "Black"</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpUSStateLineColor = "Black"</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpLimbLineColor = "Black"</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpPerimLineColor = "Black"</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpMonoFillColor = True</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpLandFillColor = 7 ; inexplicably doesn't do anything at all</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpGeophysicalLineThicknessF = 4.0</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpGridLineThicknessF = 2.0</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpLimbLineThicknessF = 2.0</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpNationalLineThicknessF = 2.0</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> mpres@mpUSStateLineThicknessF = 2.0</font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="monospace, monospace" class=""> gsn_define_colormap(wks,"BkBlAqGrYeOrReViWh200")</font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Ryan</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="1" class="">Ryan Connelly</font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><font class=""><font size="1" class="">M.S. Student in Atmospheric Sciences, </font><span style="font-size:x-small" class="">Stony Brook University</span><br class=""></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px" class=""><div class=""><font class=""><font size="1" class="">B.S. in Meteorology with Minors in Mathematics and GIS, </font><span style="font-size:x-small" class="">Valparaiso University</span></font></div></div><div class=""><a href="mailto:rconne01@gmail.com" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank" class="">rconne01@gmail.com</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="1" class=""><a href="mailto:ryan.connelly@stonybrook.edu" target="_blank" class="">ryan.connelly@stonybrook.edu</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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