Coloring components

Bryan K

I'm not sure how to frame this question.

I have colored individual faces in my component and would like to know if there is a way to undo this. It has created a problem when I try to color the entire component when selected as a group.

In other words, when I select the component and try to apply an overall color or material, it will only color some faces and what seems to me, not the individual faces I colored when I was in edit mode.

Thanks.

pcmoor

open the component, select all (control A) and choose the default (right side top) in the material browser and paint

Dave R

Philip has shown one way. I think a lot of folks miss the "dive flag" in Materials as the default material. Another option that might be faster is to delete the colors from the In Model library. Switch to In Model, right click on the color swatch and choose Delete. You'll be asked if you want to replace the color with the default material.

Generally it is better to paint faces rather than component/group wrappers and, as you've discovered, materials on faces override materials on wrappers.

Bryan K

Thanks Phillip and Dave and sdmitch. That worked perfectly.

I thought it might me something simple I was overlooking. Geez, 5 years (wait. what? 8 years?) and I'm still learning the basics.

Thanks again.

Box

Just to add to all that, Thomthom has an excellent Materials tool plugin that can help even after you've learned the Basics.

Bryan K

@box said:

Just to add to all that, Thomthom has an excellent Materials tool plugin that can help even after you've learned the Basics.

Interesting! Do you have more information on that? Thanks.

Box

Does this help?
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=tt_material_tools

Bryan K

@box said:

Does this help?
http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=tt_material_tools

Yes. Thanks! ThomThom does amazing work.

sdmitch

@bryan k said:

I'm not sure how to frame this question.

I have colored individual faces in my component and would like to know if there is a way to undo this. It has created a problem when I try to color the entire component when selected as a group.

In other words, when I select the component and try to apply an overall color or material, it will only color some faces and what seems to me, not the individual faces I colored when I was in edit mode.

Thanks.

Something like this?

Remove Face Colors.gif

Remove Face Colors.rb