Color Polygon Loops

[Falam]

Is there a way to color, polygon loops on a mesh during modelling, identical to what Silo has ?

[SamHowell]

I think you can change the colour of edge clusters. I have no access to Soft so I can't be sure.

[Falam]

Sets the display color of the cluster's components when the cluster is not selected. If a component belongs to more than one cluster, it uses the color of the last cluster created.

I change the color of the cluster, but the cluster color is not showing up in the viewport on the object ?

[SamHowell]

Go to the eyeball dropdown menu in the viewport and tick Unselected Clusters (except sample).

[Falam]

Go to the eyeball dropdown menu in the viewport and tick Unselected Clusters (except sample).

This option was toggled on, when the object is unselected you don't see the colored cluster

[Hirazi Blue]

It all depends on what you want to achieve exactly, but I wouldn't use "cluster materials" for this. Don't get me wrong, I'd still use clusters as such, as they are a good way to organize the data without breaking the normal workflow, but I think it's best to use the material nodes of the ICE Topology toolset to do the actual coloring/highlighting of the polygons, like I did in my TopoColors plugin (shameless plug of a shameless plug), mainly because they do not "interfere" with the "normal" material: you delete the ICE Tree and they're gone...

I'm thinking about constructing something along these lines (never a good sign)

[SamHowell]

Yeah, now I'm a bit confused. I thought you wanted to select edges and polygon loops to help as some kind of visual reference in the viewport. Is it actaully for rendering purposes? I think I misunderstood your question.

[Hirazi Blue]

The method I described in my earlier post definitively isn't meant for rendering either... ;)

[SamHowell]

@Hirazi. I just checked out TopoColors, it's VERY cool and very usefull. I don't know how I missed that one, I really could have used it on a job not so long ago.

[Falam]

Color polygon loops wouldn't be for rendering, only for visual aid in the viewport, I can't claim it as my idea (although I'd like to, put another one in the bag of Falams Idea ) It is something I saw that Silo has within the software.