I was unhappy at PW ignoring my SW scene and painting the floor grey instead.
So I opened the PW preview window and the PW scene editor which opened the PW appearance PM, then I selected various floor scenes expecting to see changes in the preview window.
Well the preview window re rendered everytime I made any selection, but nothing changed.
Is this how it is?
Further struggle achieved the white floor plus desired graphic display state.
Naturally I wanted to record what I did to achieve this, so I screen printed the dialogs where I changed settings from default.
There were 3 tabs in the PW Options dialog, 3 tabs in the PW Scene Editor dialog, 2 tabs in the PW appearances dialog, and the Feature Tree Display state flyout. 9 pages in all.
Clumsy eh?
Is there a better way?
Further research showed that the names of some p2m files do not match the graphic. So I did a Windows search for p2m files and printed the list, all 35 pages, so I could see my choices.
My objective is to have a white floor (top plane) in order to contrast with the model. I selected a white plastic and was surprised when this time, PW did change the floor appearance from dirty grey to clean white.
I was dismayed that the model appearance simultaneously changed drasticly from acceptable to terrible. The previous rendering honoured my transparent SW display state instruction, but this one ignored it.
How can I achieve both of my wishes?