Custom viewport shading presets

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As we all know there are 4 spheres in the top right of the 3d viewport for wireframe, solid, material preview and render. These are also accessed with the z hotkey.

I’d like to setup a few more custom setups such as silhouette and vertex color. is there an addon or way to make custom presets for the 3d viewport?

thanks

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The Z key not working seems to be a key map problem.

Quick Favoritees is a quick way to use features.

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You may have a look here:

for vertex color you might switch to vertex paint mode or temporary use an Attribute node in the shader editor as input for the color in some shader… like so:

VertexColorInput
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thanks but its pretty easy to make silhouettes in viewport by changing shading to ‘single’. I want to get a quick toggle for this though instead of having to change settings in the solid viewport menu

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z key works fine thank you. looking for a way to add presets for viewport shading settings

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Where is this found? I see Wireframe, Solid, Material Preview and Rendered.

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That is accessible, in Viewport shading popover, in Solid mode.
And Lighting can be changed from Matcap to Flat.

For those settings, it is possible to assign a shortcut through right click menu.
But to change both, at same time, it is necessary to create a custom operator in python, corresponding to a macro making both changes.

Maybe somebody wrote addons for that.

For Material Preview or Rendered modes, it will be necessary to create silhouette display set-up, at material level.

For people afraid of python scripting, it is possible to create a workspace with a 3D Viewport dedicated, and to swtich between Workspaces.

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See pic:

single
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(I don’t know of a preset addon/feature that sets these up, but feels like a custom operator would be not difficult.)

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Thanks, never experimented with those settings beyond ‘texture’ because of my painting obsession - but this could be a cool way to make a fast mask :smiley:

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Thanks for the clarification, that works well. I suppose I can make my own use of it now.

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Indeed, adding a button to the header to set these settings would be very easy. The header is written in Python

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Ohh yes… you know something simpler but searches for a quick way to do so…
…why didn’t you say so in the first place… (the trick and the wanted resolution) :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Maybe have a look at this (?) :

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