Viewport Colors apply different type of colors to your objects in the viewport to improve your viewport workflow.
Writen by: Carlos Dordelly
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###Overview
Viewport Colors is a scripts package for C4D to improve your viewport workflow. With these scripts you can quickly apply different type of colors to your objects in the viewport for reference purposes without losing your C4D materials or 3rd party render engine materials.
VP Custom Color
With VP Custom Color you can add a custom color that you prefer to one or more selected objects (support one object, multiple objects and type of objects with they childrens too).
VP Direct Color
The VP Direct Color is for a more quickly and direct workflow, you can apply one color from a preset color library to one or more selected objects (support one object, multiple objects and type of objects with they childrens too).
Limitations
You can't have a children solid/transparent inside of a wireframe parent because c4d doesn't support different type of visualizations from children objects when the parent have a display tag.
The package include:
-VP Custom Color scripts.
-VP Direct Color scripts.
-User guide for both scripts packages.
-7 explainer tutorials.
You can view the release notes here.
###Features
-You can use it to have a color reference of the scene and avoid wasting time in correctly viewing the materials in the viewport.
-You can add a color to one or more selected objects (supports one or multiple objects as well as parent objects).
-You can add a solid color, Xray/Transparent color, wireframe color and random colors.
-You can create 2 types of color variations from your key color: random variation and adjacent colors variation.
-Don't worry! You do not lose your render materials and you can use it with materials from 3rd party render engines too just like Octane Render, Arnold Renderer, Redshift, etc.
###Install Guide
To install the script package you need to copy the VP Color folder from “03_Scripts Folder” to c4d scripts folder:
WIN:
./C4D RXX root folder / library / scripts
OSX:
./C4D RXX root folder / library / scripts
Compatible with: R18, R17, R16 versions (not tested in older versions, maybe works fine).
###Download
Download the oficial release here: link.
Download the development version here: link.
###Thanks to
- Francisco "Pancho" Contreras.
- Terry Williams.
- Roberto Gonzalez.
###License
Viewport Colors - v1.0
For commercial and personal uses.
The Viewport Colors v1.0 granted shall not be copied, distributed, or-sold, offered for resale, transferred in whole or in part except that you may make one copy for archive purposes only.
Viewport Colors belongs to Dyne Tools (group of digital tools from dyne).
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