Custom template question

opal · 29 Aug 2011, 21:01

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.

edited for spelling

Gaieus · 29 Aug 2011, 21:09

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...

opal · 29 Aug 2011, 21:26

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

Gaieus · 29 Aug 2011, 21:58

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).

opal · 29 Aug 2011, 22:09

ty again

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.