Request: Black surfaces as black in shaded, ghosted, x-ray display modes

Rhino
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Request: add ability to display black surfaces (and polysurfaces) as black, rather than white in display modes such as shaded, ghosted, and x-ray.

In shaded, ghosted and x-ray display modes Rhino always displays surfaces which are black (RGB of 0,0,0) as white. (White surfaces usually appear to be very light grey in those display modes.) Sometimes it is desirable to have black surfaces displayed as black in these types of display modes but that is not currently possible. The usuall work-around is to set the color of the the surfaces or layers as RGB of 1,1,1 which is essentially still black. Thisis sort-of satisfactory if the user always wants black as black in those display modes. But currently there is no way to switch between black as white and black as white without changing the RGB colors of all layers and surfaces/polysurfaces with the 1,1,1 color.

So the request is for a method to display black as black without changing the RGB color. Ideally there would be an option within the display mode defintion for this. Then users could change the default display modes or create new display modes with black as black. An alternative would be a global option.

Similar requests have been made multiple times before in this forum but don’t appear to have ever made it to the YouTrack system. Could it be added?

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Another need for this request is it frequently is simply not possible to change “black” surfaces from RGB 0,0,0 to RGB 1,1,1 when the surfaces are in attached Worksession files or imported blocks.

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I also vote for that proposal. Having the option to choose either way is the best approach.

P.S. I very much like the classic behavior of having white surfaces, polysurfaces, meshes and SubD while their wireframe and the curve objects remain black.