Specular material, color vs. transparency

[matej]

But I try to be reasonable about it... In the end I want the same thing as you want - Octane to kick ass

Sometimes is easier to think in HSV, than RGB. The picker should eventually evolve in something more compact (alongside the requests for better GUI ergonomics).
The sample below is small, compact, and has it all:

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The vertical palette thing could serve as a savepoint for colors. The ability to store colors has been also requested by others.

This stuff is of a lower priority, of course.

[Jaberwocky]

I get the impression that this one may be implimented in V5.6 when Radience is old and grey,hunched over the keyboard mumbling to himself why he ever decided to create a rod for his own back.