Material tool - changing certain "sides" of a prop

[jimbodude]

A while back, in the WAYWO thread, IIRC, someone showed a tool, which allowed them to change the colour/material of a "side" of a prop. The screenshotted one was one of the sides of a PHX cube.

I was wondering if anyone knows if this was ever released, and if not, perhaps I could be pointed in the right direction of how to recreate something similar?

[E X C L]

No, it was not released.

[zzaacckk]

That was portalgod and he did not release it as _NewBee said.

[Donkie]

He used the clipping feature to cut one side of the cube, then made a new cube at same position, and clipped it at the same direction and place, but the other way around, then colored the new cube.

[PortalGod]

Yeah. It was me, but I broke it trying to allow you to color more than one side, and never got around to fixing it. Here's the source, if someone wants to do it for me.

[lua]
TOOL.Category = "Render"
TOOL.Name = "Surface Color"
TOOL.Command = nil
TOOL.ConfigName = nil

TOOL.ClientConVar[ "r" ] = 255
TOOL.ClientConVar[ "g" ] = 0
TOOL.ClientConVar[ "b" ] = 255
TOOL.ClientConVar[ "a" ] = 255
TOOL.ClientConVar[ "material" ] = ""

if(CLIENT) then
language.Add("Tool_surfacecolor_name", "Surface Color")
language.Add("Tool_surfacecolor_desc", "Changes a surface's color or render mode")
language.Add("Tool_surfacecolor_0", "Left click to apply color, Right click to remove")
end

local Clips, Unclipped, DefMat = {}, {}, nil
if(CLIENT) then
DefMat = Material("")
end

local function SetColour( Entity, Data )
if ( Data.Color and Data.Norm and Data.Pos and Data.Material and CLIENT) then
local tab = {}
tab.Ent = Entity
tab.Norm = Entity:WorldToLocal(Entity:GetPos() + Data.Norm)
tab.Pos = Entity:WorldToLocal(Data.Pos - (Data.Norm*0.1))
tab.OldColor = {r = Data.OldColor.r/255, g = Data.OldColor.g/255, b = Data.OldColor.b/255, a = Data.OldColor.a/255}
tab.Color = {r = Data.Color.r/255, g = Data.Color.g/255, b = Data.Color.b/255, a = Data.Color.a/255}
tab.OldMaterial = Material(Data.OldMaterial)
tab.OldMatStr = Data.OldMaterial
tab.Material = Material(Data.Material)
tab.MatStr = Data.Material
table.insert(Clips, tab)
if(table.HasValue(Unclipped, Entity)) then
table.remove(Unclipped, table.index(Unclipped, Entity))
end
end
if ( SERVER ) then
duplicator.StoreEntityModifier( Entity, "colour", Data )
end
end

duplicator.RegisterEntityModifier( "colour", SetColour )

function TOOL:LeftClick( trace )
if(trace.Entity:IsValid() and not trace.Entity:IsPlayer() and not trace.Entity:IsWorld()) then
local r = self:GetClientNumber( "r", 0 )
local g = self:GetClientNumber( "g", 0 )
local b = self:GetClientNumber( "b", 0 )
local a = self:GetClientNumber( "a", 0 )
local mat = self:GetClientInfo( "material", 0 )
local OldR, OldG, OldB, OldA = trace.Entity:GetColor()
trace.Entity:CallOnRemove("RemoveFromClips", function()
table.remove(Clips, table.index(Clips, self))
end)
SetColour( trace.Entity, { OldColor = Color(OldR, OldG, OldB, OldA), Color = Color( r, g, b, a ), OldMaterial = trace.Entity:GetMaterial(), Material = mat, Norm = trace.HitNormal, Pos = trace.HitPos } )
if (SERVER) then
trace.Entity:SetColor(255, 255, 255, 0)
undo.Create("Surface Color")
undo.AddFunction(function(Undo, Ent)
table.remove(Clips, table.index(Clips, Ent))
render.Clear(0, 0, 0, 255)
end, trace.Entity)
undo.SetPlayer(self:GetOwner())
undo.Finish()
end
return true
end
end

function TOOL:RightClick( trace )
if(trace.Entity:IsValid() and not trace.Entity:IsPlayer() and not trace.Entity:IsWorld()) then
if(CLIENT) then
table.remove(Clips, table.index(Clips, trace.Entity))
render.Clear(0, 0, 0, 255)
table.insert(Unclipped, trace.Entity)
end
trace.Entity:RemoveCallOnRemove("RemoveFromClips")
trace.Entity:CallOnRemove("RemoveFromUnclipped", function()
table.remove(Unclipped, table.index(Unclipped, self))
end)
return true
end
end

function ClipPlanes()
render.EnableClipping(true)
for k,v in pairs(Clips) do
local N = v.Ent:LocalToWorld(v.Norm) - v.Ent:GetPos()
local P = v.Ent:LocalToWorld(v.Pos)
local D = N:Dot(P)
render.PushCustomClipPlane(N*-1, -D)
render.SetColorModulation(v.OldColor.r, v.OldColor.g, v.OldColor.b)
render.SetBlend(v.OldColor.a)
if(string.len(v.OldMatStr) > 0) then
render.SetMaterial(v.OldMaterial)
end
v.Ent:DrawModel()
render.PopCustomClipPlane()
render.PushCustomClipPlane(N, D)
render.SetColorModulation(v.Color.r, v.Color.g, v.Color.b)
render.SetBlend(v.Color.a)
//if(string.len(v.MatStr) > 0) then
// render.SetMaterial(v.Material)
//end
v.Ent:DrawModel()
render.SetColorModulation(1, 1, 1)
render.SetBlend(1)
//if(string.len(v.MatStr) > 0) then
// render.SetMaterial(DefMat)
//end
render.PopCustomClipPlane()
end
render.EnableClipping(false)
for k,v in pairs(Unclipped) do
v:DrawModel()
end
end
hook.Add("PreDrawOpaqueRenderables", "ClipPlanes", ClipPlanes)

function TOOL.BuildCPanel(Panel)
Panel:AddControl("Header", {Text = "#Tool_surfacecolor_name", Description = "#Tool_surfacecolor_desc"})
Panel:AddControl("ComboBox", {Label = "Presets", MenuButton = 1, Folder = "colour", Options = {Default = {surfacecolor_r = 255, surfacecolor_g = 0, surfacecolor_b = 255, surfacecolor_a = 255}}, CVars = {"surfacecolor_r", "surfacecolor_g", "surfacecolor_b", "surfacecolor_a"}})
Panel:AddControl("Color", {Label = "#Tool_colour_colour", Red = "surfacecolor_r", Green = "surfacecolor_g", Blue = "surfacecolor_b", Alpha = "surfacecolor_a", ShowAlpha = 1, ShowHSV = 1, ShowRGB = 1, Multiplier = 255})
Panel:MatSelect("surfacecolor_material", list.Get( "OverrideMaterials" ), false, 0.33, 0.33)
Panel:TextEntry("Material", "surfacecolor_material")
end
[/lua]

I think I was halfway finished adding support for materials.