Another color question

[mjabon]

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

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.

[farshizzo]

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?

[mjabon]

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

[farshizzo]

Hi,

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

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.

[mjabon]

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