Sketchup in gray scale?

djh

Is it possible to export, as a jpeg or render a model, without the light affecting the colors? For example, if the walls of the house have the color "Color 001", all of the walls will have the same color and won't be affected by the sun or the lighting. Can one render in Sketchup similarly to a vector program like CorelDraw. The color one uses is what he/she gets. To make a not so long story even shorter, if one wishes to print and publish in gray scale, is it possible to export from Sketchup in gray scale?

Dave R

Maybe something like this?

Gray Stool.png

Enable Use sun for shading and cross up the sliders. Set the Light slider to the left and the Dark slider to the right.

Screenshot - 2_18_2015 , 4_04_18 AM.png

djh

Thank you Dave R. A simple sweet solution.
Next question: Is there a gray scale option for "Paint Bucket"? Also, simliar to a vector program - 10%, 20% 30%, ... gray?

Dave R

No. But I suppose you could make your own library of gray scale values. Find a gray scale online that you could sample from and make a set of "color" swatches to save as a local collection.

TIG

There's this Plugin, by Jim...
http://www.smustard.com/script/GreyScale

Dave R

I thought about suggesting that plugin. I used it to make the grays in the image of the stools. I think it creates grays in more than 11 steps, though, doesn't it?

Box

50 steps perhaps.

TIG

It converts the existing material color's RGB into an integer, and then uses that for the linked GreyScale material's RGB.
So in theory you could have from 0 to 255 ?
Black to white in 256 steps ?

djh

@tig said:

There's this Plugin, by Jim...
http://www.smustard.com/script/GreyScale

Sketchup 2015 doesn't seem to want to install a rb plugin, only rbz.

Dave R

Where did you get that idea? It's not correct. You can indeed install .rb files in SU2015.

Since this plugin downloads as a zip file, though, change .zip to .rbz and use Install Extension.

TIG

As Dave says...

OR if you have the SketchUcation PluginStore Toolset installed, then you can use its submenu item to 'Install Archive...'
The native Installer expects an RBZ archive, but the SCF installer works on both RBZ and ZIP archives - meaning you don't need to fiddle around with the file renaming step - just install from the ZIP in one step.
Also if you happen to have a lone RB file... then you can also zip it, and use the SCF installer directly on that new zip file too...