| Objects | Components | Geometry Views
Display colors of objects and components in their selected, unselected, and unselectable state. You can also specify the color of viewports, background area, and grid. You specify the color simply by clicking on the color chip of an element then using the color selection controls that subsequently appear.
To display: In an explorer, set the scope to Project. Click the Scene Colors node directly below the Scene node.
Selected
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Node |
Color of selected scene elements. |
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Branch (children) |
Color of selected branches of objects. |
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Owner of Subselection |
Color of the owner of selected elements. This would, for example, affect the wireframe color of an object whose property or cluster has been selected. |
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Active Geometry |
Color of objects that are active for component selection (points, edges, polygons, and so on). |
Non-Selectable
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All Objects |
Color of unselectable objects. |
Currently Inspected Nodes
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These settings don’t apply unless Highlight Property Set Owners is on in your Display preferences. |
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Owned By |
Color of objects whose properties are currently being inspected in a property editor, if the objects aren’t selected themselves. |
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Inherited By |
Color of objects who inherit properties that are currently being inspected in a property editor, if the objects aren’t selected themselves. |
Unselected
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Geometry |
Color of unselected geometric objects. |
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Null |
Color of unselected nulls. |
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Light |
Color of unselected lights. |
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Camera |
Color of unselected cameras. |
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Control Object |
Color of unselected control objects. |
Controls the color of various types of components in the viewports. To see component type, make sure that it is on in the viewport’s Camera Visibility Property Editor.
Selected
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Component |
Color of selected components. |
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Cluster |
Color of selected clusters. |
Unselected
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Point |
Color of unselected points. |
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Knot |
Color of unselected knots. |
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Cluster |
Default color of unselected clusters. |
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Normal |
Color of normals. |
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Tag |
Color of selected points on unselected objects, or selected points on selected objects or active geometries when the selection filter is not Points. |
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Isoline |
Color of unselected isolines. |
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Boundary Curve |
Color of unselected boundary curves. |
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Surface Curve |
Color of unselected surface curves. |
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Sampled Point |
Color of unselected sampled points (texture UVs). |
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Background |
Color of the viewport background. |
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Viewport |
Color of the viewport in Camera view. |
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Grid |
Color of the grid or “floor” in viewports. |
Autodesk Softimage v.7.5