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Correct answer Dan Rodney

Read this thread: I wanted help figuring out how to change the color. This whole thread spread out now over 2 months is you and another guy saying 'you are blaming the wrong people.' And then admitting that what you have to do to change the color is not good. Ok, so yeah why hasn't anyone said 'look at this, you could make it like this with XD the proper way, then you would have a simple attribute and a picker.' Instead it's just 'you sound entitled' and 'why don't you fix it instead of complaining.'

Relax though, it's not that big a deal. I got all excited when I saw the progress with auto-animation and started using the tool, then the UI kits, and this community experience took that all away.

My point in the last post was let's assume I was blaming the wrong person, how hard can it be to make a symbol like this with some attributes? was just saying it's super simple in Sketch, I know how to do it there. If someone addressed that here in all this time, I would know how to do it in XD now too.


I'm sorry this experience wasn't positive for you and I hope it doesn't taint your attitude about XD. I'd like to turn this experience around.

XD does not have charting features, so some of that UI Kit was created in another app and converted into an XD file. That's why you're having a hard time with it. That was certainly not the right approach for them to take. Sadly they went for making something pretty, not usable. The colors in the circle are actually a pixel-based image, ugh! Clearly this was not built in XD because you couldn't build it that way!

You'll have to delete the image-filled rectangle that creates the color, and draw a new colored shape instead. To drill down into a grouped/mark shape, each time you double-click you'll go in one step more. Group 208 is the bad offender (the rectangle filled with a pixel-based image which creates the color) that you don't want. Replace it with some vector shapes and you'll be able to change the color.

I hope that helps!

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skilled_passion15D5Author
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March 7, 2019

This did not fix it. Not sure who marked this the correct answer.

Preran
Preran
Legend
February 28, 2019

Did you post a graphic or video in your post? It looks like it did not get published correctly. From what I am hearing, you are trying to change the fill color of an object and the fill doesn't change to reflect the selected color. Is that right?

Can you try creating a simple shape such as a square or rectangle and trying to fill it with the color of your choice? Let us know your observations.

Thanks,

Preran

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    skilled_passion15D5Author
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    February 28, 2019

    Yeah I attached an image and it showed it to me, then it didn't.

    The UI Kits are, sorry, awful. The amount of time they save you is taken back immediately in nonsense like this. I am trying to use the dashboard one. All the images have Purple as their main fill color all over. I thought: 'well this is a design tool, of course there's a simple way to change that.' 3 days later, I have just decided to give up. There are stacks of nonsense piled on top of each other, and you have to find the right layer and change the fill color. That got the semi-circle progress to show properly, but the full circle one, changing it made the whole circle fill in. Enough of this madness.

    Preran
    Preran
    Legend
    March 1, 2019

    Thank you for the additional info, makes more sense now. Is there a specific UI kit that you are referring to, or is this more of a general comment on all UI kits that you try to modify in Adobe XD?

    Thanks,

    Preran

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