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Smooth color

Smooth color - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Smooth color

- [Instructor] This video is on the smooth color command, which is actually pretty fun to play with, but first, you need to make sure that you are viewing in the correct mode. This bunny is shaded with this blue shader here, but since we're going to be dealing with color in this video, I want to make sure we scroll up to the top and choose the default Meshmixer shader, which is the second one over. It makes the bunny more drab, but that's actually a good thing. Then, I hold down the space button, and we're going to switch to color mode. Right now, the color is set to seeing all of the different face groups. We won't be able to see the color unless we switch to this one. And I'll let go of the space bar. You can also go to file, to preferences, and go either into group color or vertex color. So group color allows you to see the face groups but will not allow you to see the colors that you would actually 3D print with. So we've switched to vertex color, but just a shortcut is holding…

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