Default "Selected" objects color

Why is the default color for Selected objects the same as the Normal objects ?

I remember the happy days when selected objects turned green from the get-go...

Cheers,

Olivier

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 23, 2011 at 6:17am

It must be a bug somewhere. They should still be red/green by default. Please have a look at the Preferences Viewport section and adjust the Default Template Materials.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 23, 2011 at 6:20am

I just found the bug, starting with the next version the colours will revert back to the red/green default again.

In the meantime, you can drag+drop this text onto the Material to reset them to the famous red/green.

Unselected:

<Fragment name="DragDropData">
<items count="1">
<item name="Colour" type_name="gh_drawing_color" type_code="36">
<ARGB>100;150;0;0</ARGB>
</item>
</items>
</Fragment>

Selected:

<Fragment name="DragDropData">
<items count="1">
<item name="Colour" type_name="gh_drawing_color" type_code="36">
<ARGB>100;0;150;0</ARGB>
</item>
</items>
</Fragment>

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on August 23, 2011 at 6:26am

Damn ! It works !

Drang'n'drop text on... wow !

I wish components could be installed as easily ;)

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 23, 2011 at 6:33am

They can. If you have downloaded a GHA file or a GHUSER file then you can simply drag them to the canvas

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on August 23, 2011 at 6:38am

Just tried that with the latest Kangaroo, on the latest Grasshopper : no luck

Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on August 25, 2011 at 2:47pm

I always drag and drop GH plugins like Kangaroo, in fact I didnt know there was any other way. Newest Kangaroo on latest GH worked here.

Permalink Reply by taz on August 25, 2011 at 5:16pm

You may want to use the various special folders:

File > Special Folder > Components Folder

I don't the D&D will automatically put GHA files there...

Permalink Reply by WT4 on August 26, 2011 at 4:01am

Where can I get hold of the newest version of Kangaroo?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on August 26, 2011 at 4:04am

Food4Rhino: http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kangaroo

Permalink Reply by WT4 on August 26, 2011 at 5:06am

Thank you for the link

Permalink Reply by Dominic Patel on August 25, 2011 at 2:40pm

this might sound noobish but where am i supposed to be dragging+dropping that script, the no highlight on my selected data is really starting to annoy me...

Permalink Reply by Stan Carroll on August 25, 2011 at 8:13pm

Hi Dominic,

At the Main menu. Under Window Menu, click Preferences, then click Viewport. Drag and drop the appropriate code onto both the 'default template material' and 'document material' Just drop the code on to the appropriate sphere.

This is what worked for me.

Stan