set color scale etc for all children

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Kameelpeerd
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set color scale etc for all children

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I have a point cloud object with dozens of children. The colors are determined by a scalar field. I need to make the same changes to the color settings (color scale and SF display parameters) for all children. I know how to do this for individual children, but as there are dozens of children, I would like to do this for all children at the same time (to save a lot of time and to be sure all children are displayed the same way). How can I do this?
Thanks in advance!
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Re: set color scale etc for all children

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Currently this is not possible. One would have to modify the code to allow for multiple selection (I know Luca Penasa had some ideas to do this, if you are a developer or know one I could give you some pointers).
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Re: set color scale etc for all children

Post by Kameelpeerd »

Thanks very much for your quick answer, Daniel!
In the meantime, I found 2 work-arounds, each with its own disadvantages:
- set each child to have the same color scale name and change that color scale. This probably requires a reload of the data each time (have not tried this out)
- merge the children into one (but that way I need to keep both versions in parallel and use the version that contains the info I need at that particular moment. this is what I do now)

I now realise that in order to make this usable for all/many use cases, the solution I asked for soon becomes very complicated to use and to implement...

Thanks again!
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