Hi,

Using current v4 beta.

What determines the default object colors?

I find the edge color too dark for my liking and end up changing all edges from time to time to the color I prefer.

Is there any place to specify the default colors for new objects?

Thanks.

Frederick

CTRL + Left Click on the Color's Square color Default of the Browser "Object" "Type" here "Style" / Default

Hi Frederick, if you right-click on a color swatch in the Styles section of the scene browser, that will set the "active style" which is the style color that will be assigned to newly drawn objects.

There are other options for adjusting the display though, under Options > View > Colors > "Edge colors".

There you can set edges to always be displayed in one fixed color instead of the style color, and another option is you can set it to a darker or lighter version of the style color and you can adjust the dark/light factor there.

- Michael

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

If I draw an object using a color other then the Default color (say Red) I can see the effect of the "Lighten" and "Darken" option on the Edges of the object.

However an object drawn using the Default color doesn't seem to respond to those options. It does respond to the "Fixed" option.


Also, somewhat related, the Default style color shows in "style selector" and the "color editor" as RGB = (0,0,0) but clearly it doesn't appear that way on an object. It seems to be RGB = (188,188,188).

So where does the Default color get it's default RGB values from?

Thanks.

Frederick

Hi Frederick, yes a color of all black like the "Default" style will not be modified by the lighten/darken factors. That color is handled as a special case with black being used as the color for wire objects like curves and edges and white being used for surface shading.

> So where does the Default color get it's default RGB values from?

It's just built in to the display system that an RGB color of full black draws wires in black but uses white for shaded surfaces.

If it did not do this and used black for the shaded surface color it would be pretty weird because that looks like this:



If you want it to look like that, you can do that by setting the color to something very close to black like r=1, g=0, b=0 . It will then also respond to lighten/darken options but it will be hard to see any result from darkening something that's already almost full black.


> but clearly it doesn't appear that way on an object. It seems to be RGB = (188,188,188).

It gets switched to full white, RGB = 255,255,255 . But it will only be that color at areas that receive the most amount of lighting.


- Michael

Hi,

Thanks very much - it all makes sense now.

Just FYI - as an experiment I edited the Default color to RGB = (0,0,1) and then back to (0,0,0). After that I got all Black objects as in your example.

So there appears to be something special about the default Default color settings. Once edited the only way I could find to get back the original Default was to click on the "Add default styles" item in the Styles "drop down menu".

Thanks again.

Frederick

Hi Frederick,

re:
> Just FYI - as an experiment I edited the Default color to RGB = (0,0,1) and then back to (0,0,0). After
> that I got all Black objects as in your example.

Seems to be a bug, some cached information not getting rebuilt. It seems to be fixed for the next beta already.

- Michael