Convert black + white patterns to color
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The pallet of black and white patterns in the materials inspector......can the samples be changed to, say, blue and white? I moved the slide bars to create a 180/100/100 cyan color, but the result remained black.
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I don't think this can be done 'on the fly' as you have found. However, the following should work (on PC).
From the pattern palette, paint a surface with the required pattern. Select the surface and from the right click menu select 'Texture/Edit Texture Image'. I have Gimp as my preferred image editor, other editors will probably be a different sequence. When Gimp has loaded the selected texture go to the 'Image' dropdown menu and make sure 'Mode' is set to RGB. Select the pixels to change and then select the 'Bucket Fill' tool. Set the fill colour to your desired colour and fill the selected pixels. Export the image, with a new name, to a suitable folder for further use.
Back in SU, create a new material from the saved, altered image. It will now appear in the 'In Model' materials palette. If you wish to use it in other models complete a 'Save As' and save as an SKM file, again to a suitable folder. You could add it to the shipped SU patterns but it would be lost if you had to do a re-install I believe.
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