Thank you, 2021, I will give it a try!

Hello Brian,

First, my condolences on the loss of your friend.

We did something similar to your problem with SAT (SimFonIA animation Tool). The fly datas were from Flight-simulator.

Regards,
SimFonIA teal

@mike lucey said:

I think Solo (Pete Stoppel) is a Master Renderer in my humble opinion. Now if only he would do a series of Mini Publications for SketchUcation we could make him Rich and Famous!

http://www.solos-art.com/

I also go for that!
Always Solo has been a source of inspiration to me!
Also there is a great potential of masters that may brings energy to our forum more than ago..

Yeah, his previous book was excellent. I've been excited to see this one as well. Should be great!

Chris

If you import an image-file as an Image you can have it NOT glued by simply inserting it in free-space.
If you have imported it an placed it onto a face it will glue onto it... BUT all is not lost...
Select the Image and the context-menu has an item 'Unglue': if you use that tool then the Image will be no longer 'stuck' onto that face, and it can then be move/rotated etc as desired - much like a Component that has gluing/cutting behavior like a window or door, that can also be 'unglued'...

Maybe you could lighten the Edge color from the Styles dialog.

Thank you!

Here is a link I discovered that gets down into the details of colors, plus it basically has cross references to all brands and all color names:

Hex color codes, HTML colors, paint matching, directory and color space conversions.

The front page is fairly sparse, so you have to type in a search term, or you have to click on the hyperlinks under the search bar.

I found this because I had an existing paint in my home that I wanted to match and I was looking for RGB values (I find the sampling technique a little fussy). So I just make a new material in SU and type in the RGB values. Volia!

This site breaks down your chosen color into 22 "colorspaces" (e.g., RGB, RGBA, RYB, Hex, HSV, and an host of alphabet soup which I don't understand), shows "color wheel" compliments, analogous, split, triad, square, etc..., hues and saturation variants, related colors, color variants, and a complete mapping to all colors to paint schemes from all paint manufactures (I can't count them all) to include home (Behr, Glidden, Sherwin-Williams), designer (Martha Stewart, Ralph Lauren) Automotive (DuPont), Models (Testors, Revell), and even Crayola!

I think if you want a great resource for the real details of color this is it! Plus -- the place isn't plastered with advertising and doesn't ask for registration or a fee. I think I saw one advertising banner inconspicuously placeed somewhere on top.

Let me know what you think!

Frank

I gave it a shot some time ago and it did not work well. I will see if anything has chenged. Thank you for the suggestion.

I see. I used a screen capture application too last night to try it.
Save it as png. Haven't try to use it in a model though.
I thought you could use any of those webpage's buttons. Thank you.

Great idea to break it by rooms. I didn't think of that. FYI, as 3D printing is getting larger, it would be great to have a plug-in that allows you to bind the model as a complete unit, then chop it up however you want. Just a thought. Thanks for your help.

ThruPaint looks very useful, of course. Perhaps PaintThru? And don't forget PaintThru For Dummies.

That made a huge difference, thanks