@lt72884 (Lt72884) posted a new topic, subject "How to change color of one object and not the others". It read:

   I ahve made a cool picture and i have used the rough metal material for 3 different objects, however, i need to change the color of one of them, but every time i change the color, it changes it on all the others using the same material. Anyway to make it independent of each other?
    
    thanks. I usually do not color me projects, but this one i wanted to haha:)

Then @DaveR (Dave) said

    Sounds like you have three instances of a component. Use Make Unique on the one you want to pain with a different material.

To which @lt72884 (Lt72884) replied

    none are components. i just checked that. they are just groups

Then @lt72884 (Lt72884) said

    wont keep the color1844×636 2.09 MB

To which @DaveR (Dave) replied

    Are they all lumped into a single group that you are painting?

So @lt72884 (Lt72884) replied

    no:) each one is its own group. no nested groups or components

@DaveR (Dave) replied

    So they are painted with the same material and you are editing that material. Of course they will all change. Paint one of them with a different material.

Then @lt72884 (Lt72884) said

    correct, i understand thats the default behavior, but i want to use the same material but different color and i dont know the process of handling that

Then @DaveR (Dave) said

    lt72884:
    
    > but i want to use the same material but different color
    
    That's like saying I want to use tomatoes to make a salad and fried chicken.
    
    You can't use the same material and have a different color. You would need to use a different material.

So @lt72884 (Lt72884) replied

    lol, maybe im not saying it clearly. I want to use the cherry wood material on the handle as well as the posts because i like the texture it yields for my render, but the handle needs to be a different color. people paint pine 2x4's different colors all the time… thats what im getting at

After which, @DaveR (Dave) added

    Of course people paint pine all the time. You need to create a _different_ material if you want it to be a different color. Right click on the material in the In Model and export the texture. Then open that image and edit it. Save the file with a new name and import the edited material into SketchUp as a new texture.

To which @lt72884 (Lt72884) replied

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    the blue wood is also the cherry material, and for whatever reason, it was able to change color without effecting the other materials. i am trying to accomplish the same thing. the roof, posts, and handle are all seperate un-nested groups. its odd that the roof had no issues changing the color, but if i try and change it on the handle, the posts change as well.
    
    EDIT: ok, i will try and create a new material. I hardly use materials so i was not sure of the process and how to accomplish this task haha:) i usually stick to my engineering grey since thats all i have ever needed.

Then @DaveR (Dave) said

    Look at the In Model materials. You must have more than one wood texture in there for them to have different colors.

@lt72884 (Lt72884) replied

    in model materials lists “wood cherry original” “wood cherry original 1” now how it ended up with a 1 in the name is beyond me. I do not know how to create a material so i would have not created it. how it got there… i dont know. all i did was open up the group, paint it, change the color to blue, closed the group. did the same thing with the other cherry wood color as i did the roof. Unless there is a hotkey on new installs of SUpro that copies a material that hit by accident.

After which, @DaveR (Dave) added

    You probably clicked on the Create Material button in the upper right corner of the Materials panel.

So @lt72884 (Lt72884) replied

    possible, it could have came up and i just hit ok, thinking it was something else haha. thats happened before. ok. so i will create a new material with a different color for the texture and see how that works.
    
    thanks again:)

@lt72884 (Lt72884) replied

    ok, i think it worked:)
    
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