Painting groups and components without going into them

[lools]

I need to turn all my components and groups to white, and leave two in full colour. I have found that its impossible to paint the outside of the group, if there are nested groups inside that have colours assigned to them. This makes the job almost endless.

I used to use the plugin Greyscale by JF, which allowed me copy the two components out of the model, paint the whole thing, then copy paste the two full colour components back in - job done. Now in 2017 version, for some reason when i bring the two components back in, it turns them into white too.

Does anyone know of another plugin that allows me to choose a colour and paint the outside of groups, avoiding all that ants work of opening them all up?

[VahePaulman]

@lools

I need to turn all my components and groups to white, and leave two in full colour.

Why don’t you select those 2 and make them unique? That would be a workaround.

Also, a week ago @DaveR provided a good explanation about this topic:

Any idea why the material isn't changing

It’s not the only way but it’s the only way I do it. Applying the materials to the wrappers can create issues. You don’t get the option to rotate or otherwise modify the material from the Context menu (this is important especially if the material has a direction such as wood grain textures. There are other problems created by painting the wrapper. On the other hand, if you wanted to do something like showing the same car component in different colors, you could paint the component wrapper inste…

[Cotty]

ThruPaint from the FredoTools can do this…

[lools]

Thanks! i will try it

[lools]

Thanks for your help Vahe