LDD dual colored tiles

[SNIPE]

Hi,

 

Before in LDD you used to be able to change the sides and bottom color of a 1x1 tile relative to the top color but I cannot renember how to do this, does anyone have any idea?

I recall that I had to surround the tile in question with other tiles of a different color to get it to work

Maybe it would be cool to merge this with the LDD tricks thread if its indeed a trick and if somebody renembers how to do it.

[StarWars8Spoiler]

I don't think you can do that anymore. The 1x1 curved tile has that ability though, and you can just use the paint tool to recolor the top or sides accordingly. 

[VaderFan2187]

5 hours ago, ChristopherLee said:

I don't think you can do that anymore. The 1x1 curved tile has that ability though, and you can just use the paint tool to recolor the top or sides accordingly. 

Yes, but is the piece actually dual-colored in real life?

[Lyichir]

5 hours ago, VaderFan2187 said:

Yes, but is the piece actually dual-colored in real life?

No. I believe in the case of that part, and the older parts where that used to be possible, it was a result of LDD treating printable surfaces (that is, surfaces that decorations could potentially be applied to) as recolorable surfaces (surfaces that can have their entire color changed). In some cases, that's probably deliberate (for simple, single-color prints like the metallic armor on the fantasy castle giant troll make more sense as a recolorable surface than as a decoration, particularly considering the color varies between different versions of the figure), but in the case of tiles like that I'm skeptical that their entire top surface would ever be printed in such a way (at the very least, I would not expect the printing to stretch edge-to-edge).

Edited January 5, 2017 by Lyichir