Disable Style

by George Brower

Shapes are loaded with style information that tells them how to draw (e.g. color, stroke weight). The disableStyle() method of PShape turns off this information so functions like stroke() and fill() change the SVGs color. The enableStyle() method turns the file's original styles back on.

Visual output for the code example
/**
 * Disable Style 
 * by George Brower.
 * 
 * Shapes are loaded with style information that tells them how
 * to draw (e.g. color, stroke weight). The disableStyle() 
 * method of PShape turns off this information so functions like
 * stroke() and fill() change the SVGs color. The enableStyle()
 * method turns the file's original styles back on.
 */

PShape bot;

void setup() {
  size(640, 360);
  // The file "bot1.svg" must be in the data folder
  // of the current sketch to load successfully
  bot = loadShape("bot1.svg");
  noLoop();
} 

void draw() {
  background(102);
  
  // Draw left bot
  bot.disableStyle();  // Ignore the colors in the SVG
  fill(0, 102, 153);  // Set the SVG fill to blue
  stroke(255);  // Set the SVG fill to white
  shape(bot, 20, 25, 300, 300);

  // Draw right bot
  bot.enableStyle();
  shape(bot, 320, 25, 300, 300);
}

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