[Feature Request] Custom Thumbnail Color

[dw-0]

This might be a rather a rather playful feature request. At the moment, thumbnails will always be generated in that specific orange-ish prusa color.

Would it be possible to make the color of the model displayed on the thumbnail customizable? Through an user defined hexcode in the Gcode thumbnails printer settings?

Iirc, you are a Klipper guy and using Mainsail yourself (?), where thumbnails will be shown in the gcode list and (which is a new feature) as a preview in the status screen when printing that model. With such a feature, it would be possible to either match the Mainsail color scheme or at least make that color user defined and much more appealing.

What do you think of it? Too much gimmick?

[n8bot]

What about matching the actual colour of the print? Some colours might have low-contrast with the bg, though.

[dw-0]

@n8bot Might be also a cool idea. Either having the option to specify the thumbail color through HSL/RGB values or like have a checkbox to enable to color from the filament profile.

[neophyl]

Theres a feature request on the Prusa github for the thumbnail to match the filament colour I remember seeing. I reckon you have far more chance getting it on Super Slicer though :)

[lixxbox]

Maybe you could use the extruder color from printer settings. If ‚undefined‘ I think the filament color is taken instead.

The render color (orange) is defined there:

SuperSlicer/src/slic3r/GUI/GLCanvas3D.cpp

Line 4271 in 845b842

static const GLfloat orange[] = { 0.923f, 0.504f, 0.264f, 1.0f };

It might also be a good idea to add an option to not render the bed, there seems to be a boolean option for that.

[supermerill]

I change the color to the current object color (from the filament color set on the top-right widget)
I added a checkbox to make the bed disappear.

It is really useful to enforce a specific color? I'll do a release without, and if there is a real need, i'll add it.

[dw-0]

Enforcing a color: no, why? thats exactly what we (at least me) don't want...therefore that feature request :P

Make color current object color: good

what about this approach?
Make color selectable by user in the settings (which can be different to the object color and would overwrite it!): would be cool!

[supermerill]

Make color selectable by user in the setting

that means that you enforce a specific color ?

example with color from filament & no bed:

[dw-0]

Ah, now i understand you correctly. Yes...but it just enforces a user defined color then.

Example: You use Mainsail and you want your thumbnails to be green. But you upload a g-code which uses the filament color of gray. You will barely see the image, since Mainsails color-scheme is also mostly gray. And maybe you don't want to change the filament color in your filament profile from gray to green only for the thumbnail because you use the filament color in the profile for managing reasons.