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Another color question

I have a question about coloring. I want to just make a purple box so I wrote this:

Code:

import viz



viz.go()



#set up view

viz.clearcolor(viz.SKYBLUE)        

view = viz.get(viz.MAIN_VIEWPOINT)

view.translate(0,0,-25)



#add box

box = viz.add('box.wrl')

box.scale(3,3,3)

box.translate(0,0,0)



#color box

box.color(viz.PURPLE)

The thing is, looking straight at the box it appears white. Only when I move around in the world and look at different angles does it appear purple. Why is this? I want the box to always look purple from all sides.

Hi,

It works fine for me here. Are you using the same box.wrl file that comes with Vizard or do you have your own box file?

no, it's the built in one....

Hi,

I believe this might be a specular issue. Does adding the following command fix it:

Code:

box.specular(0,0,0)

The box.wrl file that comes with Vizard does not have any specular color, so your file might have been modified.

oh sorry, actually I had another spurious one in the folder. Now it works