Site has a collection of Ponds. Some are above grade others lie below grade. Ponds are Components using Auto-Glue & Cut origins. This forces me to place a Ground-Plane at grade.
For the life in me, I cannot get the Style Ground Color to match that on the Ground Plane geometry I added. Have looked into shadows, styles, material color match. Can’t find a logical explanation.
Image enclosed.
Regards
Nino
I was able to get a match, at least on my computer.
See if it works for you.
Background Groud Color Match.skp (32.9 KB)
Thanks for prompt reply.
I had tried your approach Question is; the Color Spec (RGB, HLS etc.) on the geometry and the background are still NOT equal, right?
Thanks again
Nino
No, not right. They are the same.
RGB valuses are 210, 208, 185 in both cases. I shared the .skp file. Did you look at it.
Sorry I failed to notice SKP previously enclosed. Will take a look.
Again; thanks
Nino
I’m definitely getting different results. Perhaps it’s my new WIN-11 PC or the Graphic Card. I’ll explore how it reacts when exporting PDFs from LO.
Video attached.
What are your shadow settings? These are mine:
Faces are affected by the “sun” while the background color is not.
Instead of trying to get the ground color to match the faces on which you put the pool, you could make the face larger and leave the ground turned off.
Or instead of setting the Ground color, leave Ground turned off and set the Background color.
Yeah; setting shadow intensities brings the color closer together.
Maybe the solution -as you suggested- is not using the Style Ground and extending the Grade Plane to far away extents.
Thanks
Nino
I guess if you can’t get a perfect match like I do, you can put that down to graphics card differences.
Extending your grade plane will probably do what you need. Might be that you really don’t need to show the ground running off to the horizon anyway. Maybe there’s other ways you could deal with it.
Really APPRECIATE your Opinion, Assistance and time vested.
Kindest Regards
Nino
If you need more info on the topic of shadows, color vs texture, and “use sun for shading” here’s a good oldie skill builder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izdbKfhvaJc
