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    • R Offline
      remus
      last edited by

      perosnally i wouldnt mind just having a little greyscale checkbox in the export options, although more control of it in styles would also be good.

      http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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      • utilerU Offline
        utiler
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        That's it Dave, just add another tab to the face style toolbar.....
        Obviously the extent of grey scaling could be altered by switching to shaded or shaded and switch face color and it should convert to a varied grey scale.....Does anyone ever need monochrome anyway?

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        You'll see that it is a consistent theme throughout the presentaiton and is quite effective with the addition of a small amount of color....

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
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          Indeed. The addition of a single color is good. The challenge with making a gray scale face style though would be incorporating that single color.

          I actually use Monochrome most of the time when drawing so I'd hate to lose it.

          Perhaps another approach would be to create a gray scale materials library and use that for most of the model.

          Or suppose there was a plugin that would read the values of the materials applied in a model and modify them to equivalent grays. And even better, suppose you could choose a filter from a dialog. Maybe a drop down menu with choices like 25A, K1, 23, 12, etc.

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          • utilerU Offline
            utiler
            last edited by

            @unknownuser said:

            Perhaps another approach would be to create a gray scale materials library and use that for most of the model.

            I would have thought it would be easiest to just view the colored model in grey scale..... coloring the faces different shades of grey would mean that it could not be view in color without re-painting it....

            Thanks for your input with this Dave, much appreciated...

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
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              Yeah, you're right. I would like to be able to switch back and forth, too.

              So going back to the plugin idea for a moment, suppose when running the "gray scale" plugin, it first purges the unused materials from the file. Then it generates and saves a file of the original materials. Then it converts all of the materials in the model to values of gray with the desired filtration added. And then it replaces the originals with the gray scale materials.

              And when you want to return to the colored view, you activate that in the plugins menu and the original materials are restored. Perhaps the gray scale values are saved for later use if desired, too.

              I love thinking all of this stuff up but of course I have no idea if it is even possible. πŸ˜‰

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              • utilerU Offline
                utiler
                last edited by

                Ditto on your last comment, Dave. If only I knew Ruby... πŸ’­

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

                  Alan, thank you for that.

                  So, if this were to be automated, we need a plugin that will manipulate the HSB settings. H and S to zero and B rounded to the nearest 10. πŸ˜„

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                  • Alan FraserA Offline
                    Alan Fraser
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                    You actually only need about 10 colours in a greyscale palette....any more and it gets difficult to discern any difference. This is the gs section of the FormFonts palette. Just paint an array of objects different colours then edit the In Model colours so that the B value runs from 0 to 100 in HSB mode....with H and S always set to zero.

                    Arguably you could squeeze another one or two in between blocks 4 and 5.
                    Number 9 in this array is 90% of the way to pure black. I called it Visible Black because it's about as dark as you can go without getting the completely saturated effect of true black. It's as dark as pure black on vertical surfaces, but is just light enough to show a slight difference on more horizontal surfaces...good for stuff like black pipework or tubing, because that slight difference means it doesn't come across as a 2D black silhouette


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                    • utilerU Offline
                      utiler
                      last edited by

                      Thanks Alan, thanks cool...
                      how about the edges though? I guess the ruby [if it was done with ruby] would find a custon edge style with altered edge color......

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                      • J Offline
                        Jim
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                        I posted a Greyscale plugin here:

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                        Hi

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                        • utilerU Offline
                          utiler
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                          thanks mate, πŸ‘

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                            nightfly
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                            great view

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                              nujak
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                              Hello Jim (and everyone),

                              I've been looking for a plugin like this, but the link to the download is now broken. Anyone know if I can still get it anywhere? for SU2015 or 2016 BTW.

                              Thanks!

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                                nujak
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                                Nevermind! I found it on Smustard's site.

                                LOVE IT!!!! Saves me so much headache!!

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