topic Re: how to get viewport color to match layer color after applying material in 3ds Max Forum

how to get viewport color to match layer color after applying material

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:38:14 GMT

hi, i'm new to 3dsmax and just made a model with several layers and the viewport shows the color of the layer the object is in, which is what i want

then i started applying materials to some objects an the object in the viewport color changed to the material

but now i want it back to the layer color, but i want to keep the material for rendering

i can't figure out how to get the viewport to display layer color again

thanks

Re: how to get viewport color to match layer color after applying material

10DSpace — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:37:43 GMT

@Anonymous

There may be some confusion about terminology here, but I will address what I think you mean which is how to toggle between the display in the viewport of an object's color and it's material once it has an assigned material. There is a toggle to do this in the display menu:

The toggle is for the entire scene and not just the selected object.

Regarding terminology, Layer Explorer shows in the Color column, the color of the individual objects in a layer as well as the layer color. These can be set separately. Hope this is clear.

Re: how to get viewport color to match layer color after applying material

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:34:37 GMT

Hello~ This Script May Help you

Copy The code Below into Text then Change the Suffix type to .ms (Max Script)

Then Drag it into 3DSMax and Release

it will display a Dialog named "LayerManager" includ 3 button

1 "DeleteEmptyLayer" Used for Old Version

2 Select the Other Objects in the Same Layer with the Object You're Selecting

if Objects You're Selecting is in two or more Different Layers . They will Select All of them too

3 This is your wanted

Select the Object you want to Turn the Wire Color as LayerColor

Then Click the 3rd Button , Turn is On the Function Will Activate

Of Cause , to get the Final effect you want ,you need swich the Display Mode to Object Color as the Bro in 2 Level said.

rollout ET_LayerM "图层管理" width:114 height:70 ( local T_SelArray = #() button DEmptyLayer "删除空图层" pos:[2,2] width:75 height:20 toolTip:"快速清理空图层\n右键:可将清理空图层加入右键菜单图层" button SelectLayerByNow "全选图层包含物体" pos:[2,24] width:110 height:20 toolTip:"按当前选择物体全选其所在图层的所有物体" checkbutton SwicthColorByLayer "切换图层线框色" pos:[2,46] width:95 height:20 toolTip:"将物体的线框色转为所属图层的颜色\n右键:随机图层线框色" on ET_LayerM open do ( T_SelArray = selection as Array for i in selection do ( if SwicthColorByLayer.state == on then ( i.colorByLayer = true T_SelArray = #() append T_SelArray i ) else ( i.colorByLayer = false T_SelArray = #() append T_SelArray i ) ) ) on ET_LayerM close do ( T_SelArray = selection as Array for i in T_SelArray do i.colorByLayer = false ) on DEmptyLayer pressed do ( ET_DeleteEmptyLayer() ) on DEmptyLayer rightClick do ( AddItemToQuadMenu (#nonePressed) "Default Viewport Quad" 1 "ET_DEmptyLayer" "ET_Tool" 7 ) on SelectLayerByNow pressed do ( if selection != undefined do ( for i in selection do ( local S1 = i.layer.name local S2 = LayerManager.getLayerFromName S1 S2.select on ) ) ) on SwicthColorByLayer changed state do ( T_SelArray = #() for i in selection do ( if SwicthColorByLayer.state == on then ( i.colorByLayer = true T_SelArray = #() append T_SelArray i ) else ( i.colorByLayer = false T_SelArray = #() append T_SelArray i ) ) ) on SwicthColorByLayer rightclick do ( for i = 0 to layerManager.count-1 do ( nowLayer = layerManager.getLayer i nowLayer.wireColor = color (random 60 240) (random 60 240) (random 60 240) nowLayer.backfacecull = true ) ) ) Createdialog ET_LayerM

Re: how to get viewport color to match layer color after applying material

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:45:14 GMT

that's exactly what i needed, thanks