Hi,
Since colored wire frames are now in Blender 2.80 here is an Addon that can do a couple of things:
select a multiple objects and give them a random color
select multiple objects and give all of them the same color
change wire color to Viewport Display color in Material
select multiple objects and give them a random range of colors
The last one is useful if you want to differentiate between groups of objects but also among each other.
For example you might want all plants to be green. But you dont want all plants to be the same type of green but different shades of green.
Thanks for sharing!
Would it be possible for Wireframe to automatically take the corresponding Viewport Display color of material Tab in selected objects?
I think that this should be an official feature, but in the meantime it would be nice to be able to achieve that from addon.
This is how it works now. The viewport display color ( technically called the object color) is used as the wireframe color.
Or at least a derivative of it. The way Clement implemented colored wires in the source code the color is changed depending on whether the object is selected or not. If the object is selected it is brighter and if it is not selected it is darker.
I have no influence on this with Python because that is a method defined in the C source code.
[edit]Arr… brainfart. I just read you post again and saw that you meant in the material panel.
It should be relatively easy to do that with a button in the object panel. If the user presses the button the script would check what the material display color is and change it accordingly.
If an object has more than one material it would need to autmatically chose one of the materials, though which means that probably the first material would be used.
It would probably be more complicated to implement a method that would automatically change the wire color if the user changes the material display color.
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Yes, unfortunately Blender provides no way to change the wire frame colors in solid or rendered mode.
I agree that this would be great. It would also be nice to be able to change wires of empties, lamps and similar objects but unfortunately this is not possible at the moment because of limitations in Blender.
I was digging the code a bit, looking for clues. There is a wirerfame engine in the Wireframe mode, with some variables that define how it goes and what it goes to/from, but it’s somewhat involved to also add those features to the other modes. Though I’d love to. My C is not so great though.
But it must be possible! The code is all there, it’s just directing it correctly in the viewport draw modes.
Ah, ok. Yeah I tried this addon. Like some others said, is too bad how blender wireframe works/you gotta get into a special mode/situation to see the colors.
I don’t think it is possible as an addon. If anybody know how to do it I’d be very interested, though.
If you change the C code you would have to fork Blender which is overkill for a feature like this. And I don’t know how to do that anyways.
Blender allows multi color in wires in wireframe mode but I know of no way to add this to the wire overlay in solid mode. I think you would have to implement that in C.
The multi color wire overlay in your last gif does not really show multi colored wires. It just makes the wires transparent and reveals the object color bellow. This is a good option, though, imo.
I guess I could implement a button that sets up an overlay that makes the wires transparent but I am not sure if this addon is supposed to mess with the users overlay settings. The rest of this addon operates on a per object basis and setting up transparent wireframes is just two clicks away anyway in the UI. So would a feature like this be an improvement at all?
I have been looking for a way to change an objects colour if it is set to Wire display. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be possible. It would be great if someone could add a colour box for Wire display in a Blender patch though.
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