topic Re: Diagnostic shading colours - simple idea in Alias Forum

Diagnostic shading colours - simple idea

danielcUPK8E — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 21:39:07 GMT

Hi,

One aspect of the diagnostic 'multi-colour' tool that I find very frustrating is how easy it is to accidentally recolour everything in your model the same colour after spending considerable time assigning specific colours to surfaces. It might be a good idea to rethink the colouring strategy with this tool. Maybe you should be allowed to change the colour of active objects only, so in the event that you adjust colour with nothing selected, the whole model doesn't change.

Re: Diagnostic shading colours - simple idea

c3systems — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 04:28:15 GMT

Try this Plugin.. It should change the colors to the shader colors.

Is it what you are looking for?

Re: Diagnostic shading colours - simple idea

danielcUPK8E — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:40:55 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I often need to assign colour ranges to groups of geometry and these colours are separate to the assigned shaders from multi-lister i.e. my shaders represent the real-world materials but I still need to hold the colours I've assigned to specific surfaces through diagnostic shading. Hope that makes sense.

Cheers

Daniel

Re: Diagnostic shading colours - simple idea

c3systems — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 02:48:20 GMT

Ah understand. In the automotive domain some call them "clown" pictures with fake colors for C&M specifications. You could use "Switch Shaders" along with "variant lister" to be able to switch between different color variants.

Re: Diagnostic shading colours - simple idea

danielcUPK8E — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:18:58 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion. Although, I'm really interested in how to do this using 'Diagnostic Shading' only, but there doesn't appear to be a way from what I can see. 😞