Monochrome and shaded components together in one scene?
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I am a novice user of SU Pro, but believe I have a decent understanding of the basics. I am trying to illustrate via LayOut the process of assembling, step by step, a small room built of blocks. (Think Lego’s) By using scenes, layers, sections, and the hide function, I am able to create each step and show it within LayOut.
What I would like to do is highlight specific blocks in my scenes and keep them shaded, while de-emphasizing other blocks by making them monochromatic. So I would like to show both monochromatic and shaded components in one scene…it this possible with SU or LO?? It seems that every time I try to make a change, it changes globally and not just for a specific block.
I am assuming that this can only be done with a rendering program, or by exporting images and manipulating them via Photoshop or similar program. I thought I’d ask it here before giving up.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Jim has a gray scale mode script that does this - you can then color a few parts later as desired... It's also 'reversible'... It's thread is here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=88720#p88720 with a movie and all...
It's download-able from Smustard at the modest cost of $4 - well worth it... -
TIG, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I should have looked at the plug in’s…
Jim’s gray scale script just might work; I’ll have to play with it. In some scenes I need the components to be gray, but in other scenes I need these same components to then be colored. From what I read in the posts, with Jim’s script, once I change a face to gray, it will then be gray in all scenes which is not what I want. I need to change the gray scale / shaded entities scene by scene. There may be a plug in for a scene by scene change that I can use in conjunction with the Gray Scale plug in…I’ll look.
Thanks,
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When you change to monochromatic, what you are changing is the view, not the material. That's whay you see that it changes "globaly". The materials are still there.
So I'd say that what you want can't be done directly on SU, because you can't change that view just for a specific component.
I'd save a monochromatic image, or just outlined, and a shaded one. Then show one detail or another from an image editing program.I don't have the pro version, so I don't have idea of how layout works, but I suppose you can place images and not just the models... am I wrong?
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Yes, you can place images on top of each other in LayOut but the ultimate (read easiest and most straightforward) solution here is indeed Jim's plugin that TIG suggested.
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