How to get an appearance color?

[Anonymous]

Hi there!

I'm trying to get render data (such as diffuse color, roughness and so on), and faced that RenderStyle from Material contains material color (titanium on the screenshot below), but I need a representation color (Anodized - dark red), and I can't find how to get it.

Does anybody know something about this all? 🙂

Thank you!

[JhoelForshav]

It sound like you want to get the appearance, not the material 🙂

An example rule to get the appearance name of a part body:

Dim oSurfBod As SurfaceBody = ThisApplication.CommandManager.Pick(SelectionFilterEnum.kPartBodyFilter, "Select Body")
MsgBox(oSurfBod.Appearance.DisplayName)

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reply!

Actually, I'm trying to collect physical-based data, such as color, opacity, refraction, and so on.

And in this particular case, I faced this anodized appearance of titanium and I need to get RGB data of it... and I can't find how 🙂

Your snipped doesn't work on my side - throws COM exception (I use C#), but thanks to your idea I found that I can get the surface body's Appearance through SurfaceBodies from ComponentOccurrence. And that's correct Appearance, but this appearance struct (Asset) doesn't contain information about the color which I'm looking for...

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

All render data one can get from RenderStyle for each Face of Body:

foreach (SurfaceBody surfBody in compOccurrence.SurfaceBodies)
{
    foreach (Face face in surfBody.Faces)
    {
        StyleSourceTypeEnum StyleSourceType;
        RenderStyle faceRenderStyle = face.GetRenderStyle(out StyleSourceType);
    }
}