Colors Tab Page

Use

You can use this tab page to apply colors for the display of scene elements. For example, you can display the bounding box in green and vertices in red. Once modified, you can restore the default colors. The default material setting can also be modified. The color settings for various elements including the scene bounding box, scene axes, and vertices, are displayed using the Display menu on the Navigation toolbar.

Changing the color of an element affects all file formats. The color can only be changed for elements that have been enabled in the original images or model.

If you modify the bounding box, vertices, wire frame, object axes, and surface normals settings, you must select the related checkboxes on the 3D View tab page to apply your color settings.

The properties for the default material that is used by SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Author can be modified. Changing these properties affects all file formats. Some formats may contain materials. Plug-ins that handle 3D formats with materials may fill only several material properties. Therefore, if you change the default material settings, your scene may display differently, and for this reason, we recommend noting the original material settings should you want to restore them at a later stage.

Features

• The following table lists the maximum number of functions shown in the Colors tab page:

  Fields and Checkboxes	Functional Description
  Background Top	Sets the color of the upper half of the viewports’ background gradient
  Background Bottom	Sets the color of the lower half of the viewports’ background gradient
  Illustration Background Top	Sets the color of the upper half of the viewports’ illustration background gradient
  Illustration Background Bottom	Sets the color of the lower half of the viewports’ illustration background gradient
  2D Files Background	Sets the color of the background gradient for 2D files
  Bones	Sets the color of the model’s bone structure
  Bone Influence Area	Sets the color of the areas influenced by bones
  Bone Affect Area (Minimum)	Sets the color of the minimum area affected by bones
  Bone Affect Area (Maximum)	Sets the color of the maximum area affected by bones
  Bounding Box of All Objects	Sets the color of the bounding box lines that surround all objects
  Bounding Box of Scene	Sets the color of the bounding box lines that surround the scene
  Bounding Box of Selected Objects	Sets the color of the bounding box lines that surround selected objects
  Transparent Bounding Box	Sets the color of the transparent bounding boxes that surround all objects.
  Shadow	Sets the color of the scene shadow
  Default Material Ambient Color	Sets the color of the general light that illuminates the entire scene. Ambient light has a uniform intensity and is uniformly diffuse. It has no discernible source and no discernible direction.
  Default Material Diffuse Color	Sets the color of the diffuse light that is reflected in a scene. The amount of light reflected is the cosine of the angle between the incoming light and the vertex normal.
  Default Material Specular Color	Sets the color that creates highlights on objects making them appear shiny
  Default Material Emissive Color	Sets the color that makes a rendered object appear self-luminous. Emission affects an object’s color and can, for example, make a dark material brighter and take on part of the emitted color.
  Faces in Line Illustration Mode	Sets the color of the faces in Line Illustration mode
  Selected Faces	Sets the color of selected faces
  Border of Selected Face	Sets the border color of selected faces
  Lines in Line Illustration Mode	Sets the color of the line when displaying a scene in Line Illustration and Hidden Wireframe modes
  Lines in Shaded Illustration Mode	Sets the color of the lines in Shaded Illustration and Solid Outline modes
  Lines in Wireframe Mode	Sets the color of the lines in the various Wireframe modes
  Selection Highlight	Sets the color of the selected object’s highlights
  Solid Grid Light Cell	Sets the color of the lighter cells of the solid grid, or “floor” of the scene
  Solid Grid Dark Cell	Sets the color of the darker cells of the solid grid
  Transparent Grid Light Cell	Sets the color of the lighter cells of the transparent grid
  Transparent Grid Dark Cell	Sets the color of the darker cells of the transparent grid
  Subdivision Control Mesh	Sets the color of the subdivision surface control mesh
  Surface Normals	Sets the color of surface normals
  Vertex-Cross Color	Sets the color of the crosses representing an object’s vertices.
  Vertices in Vertices Mode	Sets the color of the vertices when displayed in Vertices mode
  Viewport Labels	Sets the color of the viewport labels
  Wire Grid	Sets the color of the lines of the wired grid, or floor
  X/Y/Z Axis	Sets the color of the x/y/z-axis of the selected object and the world coordinate system, or axes
  Cross Section Outline	Sets the color of the cross section plane’s outline
  Cutting Plane	Sets the color of the cutting plane
  Non Output Size Area	Sets the color for the area outside the output size area
  Output Size Border and Margin	Used to select the color of the border for the output size area
  Illustration Detailed View Border	Used to select the color of the detailed view border when you are in Illustration mode
  Reset	Restores the default settings
  Settings	Opens the Default Material window and is used to modify the properties of the default material

• The following table lists the maximum number of functions shown in the Default Material window:

  Fields and Buttons	Functional Description
  Glossiness	Determines the level of the material’s highlighting. As you increase the glossiness, the highlight gets smaller and the material appears shinier.
  Specular level	Determines the intensity of the specular light. You can set the specular level to a very high value to achieve very strong, tight highlights. This value is also known as shininess strength.
  Opacity	Determines the opacity of the material. Opacity is the opposite of transparency. As you reduce the opacity value, the material becomes more transparent.
  Raytrace Reflection	Determines the level of the material’s ability to reflect light
  Reset	Restores the most recently applied material settings

Activities