A solid baked dynamic preview for an unbaked geometry?

I am new to grasshopper.

I am making a lofted surface. How can I preview my generated geometry by grasshopper as shaded without baking? I mean, in order to make the red transparent default surface a solid beige one (rhino default colour), I have to press the bake button which makes the generated surface a static one. What can I do to make the surface a dynamically changing yet an opaque one that comes after doing the "bake" ?

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on December 28, 2016 at 1:13pm

use "Custom Preview" with a material/color that has an alpha value of 255. It won't look exactly like Rhino Shaded view but it will be close.

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on December 29, 2016 at 8:44am

There is a really cool way using the Human plugin ;) I use this a lot. You basically bake dynamically and just put in a little switch to go back to the normal grasshopper display.

You can save the cluster as a user object and then you can use it all the time. Just make sure that "preview contents" is enabled on the cluster and that you have selected a shading mode in Rhino. It works with all shading modes, which is pretty neat.

So much fun using Grasshopper with baked preview and anaglyph stereo rendering in Rhino with red/blue glasses!

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Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on December 29, 2016 at 8:51am

Uups, my bad, I didn't really test it with JUST the human plugin, normally I use Elefront and Human together. That way it works as expected, as Human will always bake a new copy, whereas Elefront can just replace it.

@archz2:

Install the Human Plugin and Elefront - both are excellent plugins. Then open the file attached and plug in your geometry :)

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Permalink Reply by mem on July 5, 2017 at 10:45pm

Awesome thank you, I installed both plugins and the baked preview component let me do exactly what I was looking to do. I can use the rhino view settings as I modify in grasshopper. No baking needed to get some quick studies/animations that are legible.

Permalink Reply by Filippo L on July 6, 2017 at 3:22am

Hi Armin,

I'm in the same situation of archz2.

I installed the two plugins, but when open your definition GH doesn't find Create/Modify Layers (human plugin)

What's wrong?

Filippo

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Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on July 6, 2017 at 6:45am

Hi Filippo.

You actually installed the Human UI plugin, not the Human plugin - watch out they are 2 different plugins that do totally different things.

Maybe Andrew Heumann (who was the first to reply here), can eventually name them something a little more different, as they perhaps sound like they belong together much more than is the actual case.

You can find the right plugin here: http://www.food4rhino.com/app/human

Permalink Reply by charles collin on November 1, 2017 at 1:17pm

hi andrew,

its works fine ! the only problem is when I adjust the geometry/move a slider, the preview sunddenly goes brighter and I can't see clearly... Any solution ? thxx

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