Hi,
I place jpg’s of plans into my project using pictureFrame. each to its own layer. I normally have them in black. I need to differentiate between two and made the one layer a different colour but the plan does not take its colour from that, unlike objects.
I looked in properties and saw the color option along with glossiness and transparency, now I know the transparency affects it, but altering the colour sees no change.
I alter its property in photoshop to rgb as it was greyscale, save it, go back to rhino, make color purple, it stays black.
Maybe it needs reinserting , so do that, still no joy
I recall choosing a bitmap option in Freehand so as to colour plans up, in Pshop this is greyed out, altering rgb to index colour still sees bitmap greyed out. I know bitmap has no greyscale so I will lose a fair amount of definition in this mediocre quality plan, though I cant make it as such anyway it seems.
Hi Mitch, that makes my plan change colour in the sense that the white background goes a shade of purple etc, I can see the plan move about easier with that but the lines on it are what this quest is about, it is a technical plan line drawing of an item in black lines and numbers etc on a white background, these are not any different really to the other plan it sits under/over in a transparent way, even in the new colour this gives, both are set to 70% and I am needing the black lines on the one to be a totally different colour so as to compare it to the other.
With the convert to bitmap method in Macromedia Freehand the image when given a different layer colour then saw the white remain white and the black details go the layer colour. Something that does that is required.
It needs a tech drawing in b/w to fiddle with, …nice waves and scene though
I guess that’s something you can only do in an image editor like PS. I am certainly not a master, but if the drawing is black and white with a white background, and you use Hue/Saturation and “colorize”, you can change the black to any color you want.
Hi Mitch,
quite right, I can do in Pshop, and have in fact now done so, just means a bit of messing about finding the file, colorizing it, then it should update in rhino or if I wish also for the b/w one, then bringing it in using photoframe again.
downside is I cant change its colour in rhino, another visit to pshop to do so again.
Note that the picture frame is just a reference to an external texture (image). If you open the image in PS and modify it, then save it with the same name/place (overwrite the original file); then back in Rhino, if you run RefreshAllTextures, the picture frame image should update. Otherwise, you can also replace the image in the picture frame with another in Properties>Material tab.