I found a script fairly recently from chromoly, called “Color Wire” which lets you choose the color of the wireframe for each object. It seems like a really useful script, but it was written for 2.55 and doesn’t seem to work in 2.58.
I’m not the best at python, so I was wondering if someone could point me at the line or lines of this script that are incompatible with 2.58, or even post a fully working 2.58 version.
Here’s the script: http://www.pasteall.org/23192/python
Thanks for any help 
There must be a problem with mapping the shortcut ctrl+shift+D. Does anyone know the new syntax? (Line 143)
Could I just remove the part that does the keymapping? I doubt I’d ever use the shortcut anyway.
I couldn’t even see it in the add-ons tab of the user preferences window, despite it being in the correct add-ons folder. Is that the case for everybody, or is my blender version behind or something?
Maybe I do not undestand?
Give your object a material, choose your color and there you can click the choice: Wire ?
This is for the viewport, not in a render.
On further investigation there are other problem, but I have no clue what they are.
mod :
but does not work :
‘SpaceView3D’ object has no attribute ‘color_wire_solid’
I’m not sure you can setup a particular wire color to an object in 258
you can change globally in the theme :
bpy.context.user_preferences.themes[‘Default’].view_3d.wire.r = 1
but it doesn’t help here. I don’t find something about wire color for a particular object (and there’s nothing in the ui btw…)
it looks like one can use :
bpy.context.active_object.color[0] # 012 = rgb
as a replacement.
but the script would have to unwrap each mesh, add an object_color flag to each face, check if bpy.context.active_object.draw_type is solid / viewport shading solid…
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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bl_info = {
'name': 'Color Wire',
'description': '',
'author': 'chromoly',
'version': (0, 158),
'blender': (2, 5, 8),
'api': 37702,
'location': 'View3D > Ctrl + Shift + D',
'warning': '',
'wiki_url': '',
'tracker_url': '',
'category': '3D View'}
import math
import bpy
from bpy.props import *
#import mathutils as Math
#from mathutils import Matrix, Vector, Quaternion
dtdict = {'BOUNDBOX':0, 'WIREFRAME':1, 'SOLID':2, 'TEXTURED':3}
class VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_toggle(bpy.types.Operator):
bl_idname = 'view3d.color_wire_toggle'
bl_label = 'Toggle Color Wire'
#bl_options = {'REGISTER', 'UNDO'}
def execute(self, context):
v3d = bpy.context.space_data
print(v3d)
dt = v3d.viewport_shade
if dtdict[dt] <= dtdict['WIREFRAME']:
v3d.color_wire ^= 1
else:
v3d.color_wire_solid ^= 1
return {'FINISHED'}
#def invoke(self, context, event):
# return {'FINISHED'}
class VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_copy_color(bpy.types.Operator):
bl_idname = 'view3d.color_wire_copy_color'
bl_label = 'Copy Wire Color'
bl_options = {'REGISTER', 'UNDO'}
@classmethod
def poll(cls, context):
return context.active_object != None
def execute(self, context):
if not (context.active_object and context.selected_objects):
return {'FINISHED'}
usewcol = context.active_object.color_wire
wcol = context.active_object.wire_color
for ob in context.selected_objects:
ob.color_wire = usewcol
for i in range(3):
ob.wire_color[i] = wcol[i]
return {'FINISHED'}
#def invoke(self, context, event):
# return {'FINISHED'}
class VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_select_same_color(bpy.types.Operator):
bl_idname = 'view3d.color_wire_select_same_color'
bl_label = 'select by Wire Color'
bl_options = {'REGISTER', 'UNDO'}
@classmethod
def poll(cls, context):
return context.active_object != None
def execute(self, context):
if not (context.active_object and context.selected_objects):
return {'FINISHED'}
usewcol = context.active_object.color_wire
wcol = context.active_object.wire_color
for ob in context.visible_objects:
if not ob.select:
for i in range(3):
if ob.wire_color[i] != wcol[i]:
break
else:
ob.select = True
return {'FINISHED'}
#def invoke(self, context, event):
# return {'FINISHED'}
class VIEW3D_MT_color_wire(bpy.types.Menu):
#bl_idname = 'view3d.color_wire_menu'
bl_label = 'Color Wire'
def draw(self, context):
v3d = context.space_data
cwstate = [v3d.color_wire, v3d.color_wire_solid]
ls = ['', '']
ls[0] = 'ON' if cwstate[0] else 'OFF'
ls[1] = 'ON' if cwstate[1] else 'OFF'
dt = v3d.viewport_shade
if dtdict[dt] <= dtdict['WIREFRAME']:
ls[0] = '[' + ls[0] + ']'
else:
ls[1] = '[' + ls[1] + ']'
layout = self.layout
layout.operator_context = 'INVOKE_REGION_WIN'
layout.operator('view3d.color_wire_toggle',
text='Toggle ({0}, {1})'.format(*ls))
layout.operator('view3d.color_wire_copy_color',
text='Copy wire color')
layout.operator('view3d.color_wire_select_same_color',
text='Select same color')
# Register
def register():
#km = bpy.context.window_manager.keyconfigs.active.keymaps["3D View"]
#kmi = km.items.new('wm.call_menu', 'D', 'PRESS', shift=True, ctrl=True)
#kmi.properties.name = 'VIEW3D_MT_color_wire'
bpy.utils.register_class(VIEW3D_MT_color_wire)
bpy.utils.register_class(VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_select_same_color)
bpy.utils.register_class(VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_copy_color)
bpy.utils.register_class(VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_toggle)
def unregister():
#km = bpy.context.window_manager.keyconfigs.active.keymaps["3D View"]
#for kmi in km.items:
# if kmi.idname == 'wm.call_menu':
# if kmi.properties.name == 'VIEW3D_MT_color_wire':
# km.items.remove(kmi)
bpy.utils.unregister_class(VIEW3D_MT_color_wire)
bpy.utils.unregister_class(VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_select_same_color)
bpy.utils.unregister_class(VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_copy_color)
bpy.utils.unregister_class(VIEW3D_OT_color_wire_toggle)
if __name__ == '__main__':
register()
So… in 2.55 you could change the color of an individual object’s wireframe, but not in 2.58?
Also, with the script you posted, I can enable it (unlike the un-edited one), but it doesn’t do anything.