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    • opalO Offline
      opal
      last edited by

      I've just discovered (read in here) that I can set up my workspace the way I want to.. found many of the changes that I can make under the window preferences. I haven't found anywhere to change the background colors (ground and sky) for my workspace. Is there a place to do this? I have been using the random background plugin a lot but sometimes I just want to have either dark or light pallets for a particular model. It will be awesome to not have that girl appear on startup every time. πŸ˜„

      edited for spelling πŸ˜’

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      • GaieusG Offline
        Gaieus
        last edited by

        It's a style setting and can easily be saved with your template. Go to Window > Styles > In model (the small house icon) > Edit > Background settings...


        background.jpg

        Gai...

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        • opalO Offline
          opal
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          ty ty! I looked at those cubes and thought they were for changing line styles face palms

          yeah! no more default colors!

          um.. while you're around.. is there a way to kill off most of the default materials that come up in the materials tab that I never use? I set my front and back face materials, yet I do still get 7 (3 grey) materials that I end up purging.

          oh and and.. is there a way to make projects that I made with a default template open without dragging that template back in with them?
          I just opened a project with my spanking new workspace and thwap default colors and such are back

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            Those materials are probably the shirt colours of Susan (whom you probably deleted from your template already). After deleting her, go to Window > Model info > Statistics and Purge all.

            Now as for opening old projects with your new template settings; that's not possible. In fact, setting up a template this way is only possible because these things are saved with the file itself (templates are just empty - or sometimes not even empty - files stored in a special place). So once you started a project with a different template, you can only change it if you go through all these settings in that file and change them (or copy all the content and paste it into a new file - but you will lose scenes and such in that case).

            Gai...

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            • opalO Offline
              opal
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              ty again πŸ˜„

              You've just saved me hours of trying to figure out how when it's not possible. At least my new stuff will have better settings.

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