Tint Brush
Paint containers with preselected container instance materials, by stroking.
Tinting is useful to create variation in appearance. Tint only changes instance material, not geometry material. The instance material is shown in the Entity Info swatch, when you have selected a single container.
Menu: Extensions > Placify > Brush > Tint BrushLandscape Painting, Reinvented
If you have a grove of trees, a field of rocks, or some other mass of surface objects, you can effortlessly repaint them using the Tint Brush.
Instance Materials
Note that for Tint to work, faces inside target containers need to be using Sketchup's Default material. The effect depends on the target instances outermost material, not raw geometry material. The instance material is sometimes called "shell material".
Try selecting a few target containers, and change their instance materials by clicking Entity Info material swatch. If your groups and components change apparent materials when you change the Entity info material swatch, then you are all set for tinting.
Sampling Materials
The instance materials of the preselection that is active when you start Tint Brush will determine which materials you apply.
Tint also takes into account the relative distribtion of source materials.
Currently, Tint brush does not have an in-tool sample mode. To change tints, select some containers carrying the your desired instance materials, and run Tint brush again.
Details
When Tint Brush is active, read the status bar and VCB carefully. Here, you can learn about available options and parameters.
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