We have started using the new MS Office feature that allows 3D SU models to be imported and placed onto pages within Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This gives our clients the ability to incorporate interactive models within their text-based presentations.
The problem is that textures used within SU change when imported into Office. Red becomes blue and vice versa, orange becomes cyan. Green doesn’t appear to change as much and stays ‘a’ green.
The native SU colours are okay, it’s just imported raster files that aren’t.
I suspect this is a MS issue, but does anyone know of a fix for this either within SU or the MS apps?
Looks to me like mismatched ordering of the bytes in the color lookup table, e.g. reading bgr instead of rgb, or perhaps a different color representation such as cmyk (typical printing) vs rgb. I don’t have MS office, so I can’t investigate. Perhaps you can poke around to see how it is reading colors from SketchUp.
I’d consider that, but as far as I’m aware the profiles are display or application specific and not system wide. I’ve looked to see if there’s anything within both SU and Office that I can change but neither appear to have any sort of colour settings.
I’ve even considered that it may be a graphics card issue, but until someone else can reproduce the same issue on a different machine, I won’t know.
I had considered altering the texture colours so they were incorrect in SU but viewed correctly in Office - bad idea I know, but even with that idea and years of experience in Photoshop, I can’t accurately transpose the colours without multiple filters and more work than is warranted.