haha. Man, it's times like this when I realize why I'm the one using grasshopper and your the genius writing the code. And your completely right, when you point it out, I realize how subconsciously useful that grid is, even if I can't snap to it.
Well, I went to the registry file, however I didn't see a CustomBackground. I have Grasshopper version 0.5.0099, is this ".6" ? I went to the download site, and it was going to have me download the same version. Can you see what I'm doing wrong? On Mar 18, 9:11 pm, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > The grid is there so you can see movement of the canvas when there are > no components around. Also, I found it gives a reasonable indication > of zoom-scale. > > In very early versions of Grasshopper (back when it was called > Explicit History) the grid actually had units. The vertical lines had > 'generation' numbers. Initially the idea was to only allow connections > to components that occupied a higher generation value, and all > components would be skewered on a generation line. I abandoned this > approach because it was incredibly annoying. The grid somehow stuck. > > I suppose at some point in the distant future we'll expose a lot of > colour and UI options for customization. I'm not looking forward to > write that code... settings UI is soooo boring! :-) > > -- > David Rutten > [email protected] > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Mar 19, 2:01 am, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks David, print is exactly what I'm going for. Need to make a > > presentation to some faculty at the university I'm at. Those > > background changes should deffinitely help. > > > Quick side note question, is there any way to snap to the grid on the > > current canvas background? I love the look, but I always find myself > > saying why is it there if you can't snap to it! lol. > > > On Mar 18, 8:06 pm, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Mat, > > > > if you're making screenshots for purposes of print, you may want to > > > override the canvas background drawing. > > > > I added two new registry settings in Grasshopper 0.6 called: > > > > CustomBackground > > > CustomBackgroundColor > > > > you'll find them in this registry folder: > > > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\McNeel\Rhinoceros\4.0\Scheme: Default\Plug- > > > ins\b45a29b1-4343-4035-989e-044e8580d9cf\Settings\ > > > > Change the value of CustomBackground to bln-True > > > The default custom background is solid white. If you want another > > > colour, also change the CustomBackgroundColor setting. The 4 integers > > > represent Alpha-Red-Green-Blue (in that order). So if you want perky > > > orange instead, change it to col-255;255;155;0 > > > > You have to restart Grasshopper for these changes to work. > > > > I'll probably at some point write a bitmap exporter for the canvas. It > > > shouldn't be all that difficult since the drawing code is all there > > > and reasonably flexible already. > > > > -- > > > David Rutten > > > [email protected] > > > Robert McNeel & Associates > > > > On Mar 19, 12:52 am, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > That sounds good. I was trying to avoid that;) but will have to do. > > > > lol. Thanks again. > > > > > On Mar 18, 7:50 pm, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I had to create an image of a very large definition for an > > > > > architecture competition. I did it by zooming the canvas to 100%, > > > > > taking screenshots of every part of the definition (don't change zoom, > > > > > only pan) and pasting all together in photoshop. > > > > > > On Mar 18, 10:35 pm, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm still new to this, bare with me and thanks. But just wondering > > > > > > how > > > > > > to "save as .jpg" or some image file, from grasshopper? Like when > > > > > > you > > > > > > see tutorials and they give a screen shot of the family tree of > > > > > > their > > > > > > grasshopper string. I would just screen shot it, but its so large I > > > > > > can't get good resolution, is that how they do it? Thanks.
