How to modify texture color with code?

[renderiza]

Hi,

Is there a way to modify a texture color with code?

Thanks

[TIG]

Methods in https://developers.google.com/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/texture lets you find the material's texture's 'average_color' etc.
Methods in https://developers.google.com/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/material lets you get/set a material's texture and also the material's color, opacity etc.

[thomthom]

Note that the API is missing methods to make a texture Colorized.

[TIG]

You can tell if a material is colorized, via https://developers.google.com/sketchup/docs/ourdoc/material#materialType which returns 2 if the material is 'textured and colorized' [or 0 is untextured and 1 if textured], but as TT says there is no effective way to change a material's 'colorization; settings in the API.

The 'average_color' is useful for representing the material's texture as its RGB color when the view-mode isn't showing textures.

[renderiza]

If I understood correctly it can't display the color changes while in texture mode. I hope one day the API will support such a task. Oh well I guess I need to use another method to achieve what I wanted which was to change the color of texturized clouds depending on the sun or moon is position.

Thank you both

[Aerilius]

I think when setting a color to a textured material, the change becomes visible immediately, however the API does not differ between colorizing (checkbox in the materials browser) and color-shifting (pointer on the color wheel).

Assuming you rotate the color wheel of a material A and get material B:

We can then read the color value of B:
` material.materialType

2
color = material.color
Color(200, 147, 62, 255)then reset it to the texture image's original look: material.color = nil
nilThis way we get A. material.materialType
1then trying to set it again: material.color = color
Color(200, 147, 62, 255)
material.materialType
2`
This time it is also colorized (C) and we have no control about it.