What material properties will allow for a solid color fill that appears different in consistent colors and hidden line view styles?

[james]

I want a material that can be assigned to or painted on that is a solid fill color that appears different in perspective views using consistent colors style and elevation views using hidden line style.  In perspective it'll be a very dark color, but in elevation the dark color is much too bold so should be softer and more suggestive.

Thanks for your help!

[Alfredo_Medina]

In the project that I'm working one, walls have a color that has a solid color as background and a pattern of lines as foreground. In the projects, walls show the color both in consistent colors mode and hidden lines mode.

[syman2000]

I would use lighting setting with the shaded view. Here you can change the color to be lighter or completely wash out.

[james]

Your walls are assigned a material that has a solid background color and a hatch pattern of lines in foreground.  This material shows the same in consistent colors mode and hidden line mode.  That makes sense, though not sure why you need the hatched lines since a solid fill foreground color will show the same in hidden line and consistent colors, but I'm trying to have a different color appear in the two different visual styles.  Did I misunderstand you?

[james]

Sorry, thanks? Not sure how relevant this is. Our perspectives are in consistent color style w/ shadows. Our elevations are hidden line style. These are for construction drawings so need to be clean. Shaded view style is too diagrammatic so not usable in elevations.  There are particular panels that need to be distinguished in elevation but appear true in the perspectives.  The true color is much too dark in elevation, so we just want that one material to appear different in hidden line than in consistent color.

Thanks, though!

[syman2000]

Shaded view can be tricked to make the material look lighter. This is what I am illustrating in the screenshot. That way you don't have to figure out how to create different material look for perspective and elevation. You can also try out filter and set your surface material to be lighter in elevation and different color in perspective view.

[Alfredo_Medina]

Sorry, now that you read your reply and read again your question, I see that I misunderstood you. Well, in that case, the only choice is to use different lighting settings for each view. If you want the colors to look lighter, raise the level of ambient light. 

[james]

Thanks, but the principals really hate seeing shadows on elevations.  They say it goes against architectural standards, which is it does.  Seems like this is another example of an long-established standard not being achievable in the industry-standard software.  THIS is why principals hate revit.  ::sigh::