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Vertex painting is far too soft for me: enter image description here

I'm looking to paint something more like this (not exact, but close enough):

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Instead of smooth interpolation, color interpolation should be done on a per-face basis and not smoothed between faces. And if possible I would like to paint faces, not vertexes.

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  1. Select faces in Edit mode
  2. Switch to Vertex Paint mode and press Face selection masking for painting button (3D view -> bottom panel -> button with cube icon (next to layers selection) enter image description here
  3. Press ShiftK to fill selected face with the selected color.

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This way, you can also normally vertex paint your model but painting will be limited to selected faces only.

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    $\begingroup$ I found your answer really helpful! As a test, I assigned pure red/green/blue to different faces of a mesh, and set each of those RGB channels to mask in a different procedural texture for bump/displacement. This technique will be useful for projects where just a few properties of a material need to be different for certain mesh faces. Of course UV mapping works too, but then we get concerned with what the unwrap looks like, and it's dependent on a texture... this just feels simpler and cleaner for certain use cases. Example blend. $\endgroup$
    – Mentalist
    Commented Oct 30, 2020 at 6:47

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