Modify wall texture color/hue/saturation on the fly to "play around"

[Painter21]

As plain colors look very unrealistic for walls, I always use some kind of texture like "sponge painting light green" or similar.

Now I want to "play around" with the exact shade of green for a room, make it maybe a bit more intense or a bit more yellow-ish.
The problem is that there are only very few textures available.

I could use e.g. GIMP to create individual PNG files of one texture in 50 shades of green and import them as texture library but this is quite tedious. Especially as I would have to do it for different textures of other rooms as well.

I dream of a feature that lets me add a filter to the texture and give me something like a colorwheel to modify the color on-the-fly. Maybe even refreshing the "photo view" whenevery I change something.

Is there anything like that already in Sweet Home 3D or planned?
How do you create interiors? Do you always know which color you want before you draw?

Best Regards!

[mazoola]

This has been mentioned as a desirable feature to add. I've been working a lot lately using Sketchup in conjunction with SH3D, and SU includes a 'colorize' option in its color/texture editor.[1] Personally, I'd like to see this ability added to SH3D, and I find SU's handling of it works well in terms of balancing between the original texture and the added color. However, I've mainly used it to add color to primarily monochromatic textures -- for instance, changing faux chrome to faux copper -- or textures with a narrow range of colors, such as wood grain or granite, so I can't speak to how well it works when the original texture contains a wider range of hues.

If you're not already familiar with it, you might want to check it out -- Sketchup Make is free for personal use -- and let Emmaneul know if and how well similar functionality might meet your needs.

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1. Accessed by selecting the 'edit' tab on the 'Materials' window.

[Painter21]

I've used Sketchup for some small things before and yes, that's *exact* was I was looking for.

[Painter21]

BTW, How should I let Emmanuel know? Copy this thread to Wishlist or mail him directly?

[Puybaret]

You can open a feature request for this, even if I don't think it will happen soon...