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- From: mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca (Mark Worden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Imagine 4.0 - Object colours? HELP!
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 01:23:06 GMT
- Organization: Compusult Limited - Public Access Unix
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- I'm new to Imagine for the Amiga, and I'm using v4.0. I'm having a
- problem changing the attributes of a group of objects that are supposed
- to be "grouped".
-
- Here's my situation:
-
- I go into the Spline Editor, choose "Load Font" from the Object menu,
- select the PostScript Font I want and type in a word I want to make into
- an object (for example, I type the word AMIGA) and hit return.
-
- The font loads, and the letters appear in the Spline Editor screen. I
- choose "Add Points" from the Object menu to turn it into a 3-D object.
- No problem so far. I then choose "Save Points" (not "Save Object" as
- this would not work) to save the word (i.e. AMIGA) as a 3-D object. I go
- to the Detail Editor and load the object, and it appears in the edit
- windows. The entire word (i.e. AMIGA) is already selected and is shaded
- brown. I press 'F1' to Pick it, and it now turns purple. I choose
- Attributes so I can change the colour of the entire word. I click on the
- Colour button in the Attributes requester so I can change the colour. I
- choose the colour, then I click on Qick Render to test it out.
-
- This is where the problem arises: the Quick Render refuses to use the
- colour I selected for the object and simply renders it in white. If I go
- back and select a texture to add (i.e. Wood) then try the Quick Render
- again, the Wood texture does indeed appear, but white still appears for
- the object's colour (the brown colour defined as part of the wood grain
- appears correctly). If I click on 'OK' and exit the Attributes requester
- (keeping any changes I made), then go back into the Attributes requester,
- the colour I had selected does show up when I click on the Colour
- button. It's just that whenever I do a Quick Render (from the requester
- or the menu), the whole word renders in the colour of white instead of
- any colour I choose.
-
- HOWEVER, if I choose 'Pick Objects' from the Mode menu (changing from
- 'Pick Groups'), then select each individual character of the word and
- change the colour, the Quick Render works with those colours I selected.
- After doing all this, I go back into 'Pick Groups' mode again, and when I
- bring up the Attributes requester, the colour that I had originally
- chosen for the whole group of letters (i.e. the whole word AMIGA) is
- still there.
-
- Why can't I seem to change the colour of the grouped letters? I know
- that I am selecting them correctly, because if I perform a function on
- them such as Move or Rotate, it does indeed operate on them all at once.
-
- Please e-mail me with any advice. Thanks.
-
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