Rendering: changing background color ??

[womanonfire]

in the outliner choose a camera and pull up the attributes editor. there is a Background Color setting under the Environment tab... this changes the background color of the rendering.

[robin]

womanonfire

Thanks a LOT ..... well answered and on top of that really fast

thanks again :D

[womanonfire]

i was inspired by the script in this thread:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8390&highlight=background+color
to try and make something similar which would toggle through render background colors. here is what i came up with. I saved it to a shelf button. It simple toggles through black, dark grey, light grey, white, and sky blue, but the colors could be changed to anything one needs.

it works but, i don't know _anything about mel, there are probably better ways to do this.

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int $ci ;


if( $ci == 0 )
{
setAttr "perspShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .7 .7 .7;
setAttr "frontShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .7 .7 .7;
setAttr "topShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .7 .7 .7;
setAttr "sideShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .7 .7 .7;
$ci = 1;
}
else if( $ci == 1 )
{
setAttr "perspShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 1 1 1;
setAttr "frontShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 1 1 1;
setAttr "topShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 1 1 1;
setAttr "sideShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 1 1 1;
$ci = 2;
}
else if( $ci == 2 )
{
setAttr "perspShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0 0 0;
setAttr "frontShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0 0 0;
setAttr "topShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0 0 0;
setAttr "sideShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0 0 0;
$ci = 3;
}
else if( $ci == 3 )
{
setAttr "perspShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .1 .1 .1;
setAttr "frontShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .1 .1 .1;
setAttr "topShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .1 .1 .1;
setAttr "sideShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 .1 .1 .1;
$ci = 4;
}
else if( $ci == 4 )
{
setAttr "perspShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0.702403 0.854321 0.923;
setAttr "frontShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0.702403 0.854321 0.923;
setAttr "topShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0.702403 0.854321 0.923;
setAttr "sideShape.backgroundColor" -type double3 0.702403 0.854321 0.923;
$ci = 0;
}

print( "Color mode is: " + $ci );

[womanonfire]

i actually altered the code from a script i found on highend3d called MKShiftBackgroundColor 1.1 and can be found here also:
http://www.algonet.se/~xybernic/ANIMATION/mels.html

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