Quick Color Chooser
Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:12 am
Just getting back into paper modeling, and thought of what I think would be a very useful feature.
The coloring tools are currently usable, but a little tough to operate. I propose a simple recoloring window wherein you can see the current colors in the model and remap them to new colors all at once.
For instance, I'm playing around with a stellation of the rhombicosidodecahedron right now, and turned on the dodecahedral 6-color scheme and icosahedral 5-color. I would like to turn all the dodecahedral faces to slightly different shades of blue, and the icosahedral to shades of red, but the way the coloring is set up now this takes a very long time. If I just had a 2x11 array of the colors as they are now and could fill in the colors that I would like them to be, I could accomplish this in seconds.
Not a huge deal by any means -- I have the patience to color nonconvex snubs face-by-face, which takes for.ev.er -- but it would be a nice feature to get models that looked pretty on screen.
The coloring tools are currently usable, but a little tough to operate. I propose a simple recoloring window wherein you can see the current colors in the model and remap them to new colors all at once.
For instance, I'm playing around with a stellation of the rhombicosidodecahedron right now, and turned on the dodecahedral 6-color scheme and icosahedral 5-color. I would like to turn all the dodecahedral faces to slightly different shades of blue, and the icosahedral to shades of red, but the way the coloring is set up now this takes a very long time. If I just had a 2x11 array of the colors as they are now and could fill in the colors that I would like them to be, I could accomplish this in seconds.
Not a huge deal by any means -- I have the patience to color nonconvex snubs face-by-face, which takes for.ev.er -- but it would be a nice feature to get models that looked pretty on screen.