[Plugin] Colors from Style

Jim

What

A small utility that adds colors to the Materials palette from the colors used by the current Style. Colors include:

` BackgroundColor
	BandColor
	ConstructionColor
	FaceBackColor
	FaceFrontColor
	FogColor
	ForegroundColor
	GroundColor
	HighlightColor
	HorizonColor
	LockedColor
	SectionActiveColor
	SectionDefaultCutColor
	SectionInactiveColor
	SkyColor`

Colors are named using the Style name followed by the color name: [Default Style].FaceFrontColor

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jf_colors_from_style.rb

mitcorb

Hi, Jim:
This tool looks very useful. A couple of questions, if you will. Yes, they may be naive.
Can you define BandColor? All the other terms seem self explanatory.
How well, or does this data export into external renderers? Or, is this something you'd want to do?

thomthom

@mitcorb said:

Can you define BandColor?

When you set the aspect ratio of the viewport and you get those shaded areas, which by default is transparent grey.

Jim

@mitcorb said:

Can you define BandColor?

What Thom said.

@mitcorb said:

How well, or does this data export into external renderers? Or, is this something you'd want to do?

I guess that would depend on the exporter used by the renderer. I think all SketchUp-compatible rendering engines have an exporter that supports SketchUp materials. Does that help?

function

How about colors from the layer palette? I find myself coloring by layer quite often, it would be nice to transfer those to the model data itself. Thanks for the script!

TIG

Access to layer colors is very limited [I wrote a way of getting them from a DXF export but it's pretty lame]... AdamB did come up with a 'possible' solution that never got finalized....