What is “Color” in Object Properties in Blender

GOAL

To understand how to use object color.

Environment

Blender 2.83
Windows 10

What is Object Properties?

The Properties shows and allows editing of many active data, including the active scene and object.

from Properties page in Blender2.91 Manual

You can change the attributes of the object from “Object Properties” tab. The color can be set in the “Visibility” menu.

How to display the object color

1. Change the object color

2. Change the renderer into “Workbench”

The Workbench Engine is a render engine optimized for fast rendering during modeling and animation preview.

from Introduction of workbench in Blender2.91 Manual

3. Set the color “Object”

You can select colors that the Workbench uses to render objects from single, Object, Material, Random, Vertex and Texture. See “Color” page of workbench in Blender2.91 Manual for details.

4. Rendering

Change the viewport shading “rendered”.

Rendered result

“python script failed check the message in the system console” in Blender

This is for beginners.

Error Detail

When I ran python script below in blender, the error message “python script failed check the message in the system console” is displayed.

import bpy.data
print(bpy.data.objects)

Solution

Open the system console and check the message but where is the system console?

How to open the system console

Click Window > Toggle System Console

You can see the message on the generated window.

How to set keymap in Blender

GOAL

To add some functions into keymap in Blender. I added “Toggle Quad View” into the “Industry Compatible” keymap.

There is no shortcut key of “Toggle Quad View” in Industry Compatible keymap in contrast to Blender keymap.

Environment

Blender 2.83
Windows 10

Method

Open and right-click the menu to which you’d like to add shortcut key.

Click “Assign Shortcut” and press the key to assign.

Press the key and the shortcut key is registered.