TIG, Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, I should have looked at the plug in’s…

Jim’s gray scale script just might work; I’ll have to play with it. In some scenes I need the components to be gray, but in other scenes I need these same components to then be colored. From what I read in the posts, with Jim’s script, once I change a face to gray, it will then be gray in all scenes which is not what I want. I need to change the gray scale / shaded entities scene by scene. There may be a plug in for a scene by scene change that I can use in conjunction with the Gray Scale plug in…I’ll look.
Thanks,
Greg

I am a novice user of SU Pro, but believe I have a decent understanding of the basics. I am trying to illustrate via LayOut the process of assembling, step by step, a small room built of blocks. (Think Lego’s) By using scenes, layers, sections, and the hide function, I am able to create each step and show it within LayOut.

What I would like to do is highlight specific blocks in my scenes and keep them shaded, while de-emphasizing other blocks by making them monochromatic. So I would like to show both monochromatic and shaded components in one scene…it this possible with SU or LO?? It seems that every time I try to make a change, it changes globally and not just for a specific block.

I am assuming that this can only be done with a rendering program, or by exporting images and manipulating them via Photoshop or similar program. I thought I’d ask it here before giving up.

Thanks for your thoughts.