Often we use monochrome images in PhotoModeler to speed up image load time and to reduce disk storage requirements. If you use monochrome photographs you will get monochrome texture output. If the original photographs were color you can switch these with the monochrome ones in the project and have PhotoModeler extract the textures in color.
To switch to color photographs:
• Take note of the file names of the photographs used in your project.
• Move all the monochrome images into a separate sub-directory.
• Find the corresponding color image for each of the photos found in step 1. and rename them so they have the same file names as their monochrome counterparts.
• Copy these color images into the directory where the monochrome images used to be.
• Load the PhotoModeler project that used the monochrome images.
You will see that your chip images are still monochrome but when you open a full image you will see it is color. If you want color chips, delete all the .CCH files in the project directory and reload the project.
• Open all the images to make sure they match the markings and no mistakes have been made in step 3.
• Do the 3D model export again.