Questions tagged [vertex-colors]
Vertex colors are color values that can be stored with each vertex in a mesh. This tag is for anything related to them.
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Transferring a texture 1 to 1
What i have is:
an exported .ply and .obj from MagicaVoxel
.obj has it's texture stored in this way
.ply is just a 1:1 mesh with all its textures stored in vertices
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Select by certain vertex color
Is there a way to select all faces with the same vertex color of the selected face? There is an old addon, but it doesn't work in the new version of Blender:
https://gist.github.com/tamask/2590850
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How would you select an absolute screen color?
Before moving to 2.8, if I needed to fetch a vertex color used on a face I could easily enter wireframe mode and get the absolute vertex color. Since the wireframe in pre 2.8 versions would ...
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Best way to paint same Material with different mask?
My question is to have an alternative way if it exists.
So my problem is the following:
As you can see from this image, I have 2 materials, the first in the top row, uses vertex paint, so white and ...
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How can I change colors of grease pencil strokes drawn in 'vertex color' paint mode?
If I have drawn grease pencil line strokes in 'material' paint mode, I can easily change colors of them by using base color button(marked with a white arrow in above picture).
But after I had drawn ...
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Correct settings for baking texture from vertex paint (low poly game asset)
I'm a newbie in blender 2.8 and made a model for a low poly map. Then colored the map with the vertex paint mode so the coloring fits the polygons of the model. I need to import that model and its ...
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How to animate vertex colors using animation nodes
How can animation nodes drive vertex colors on an object?
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I have a time varying dataset the defines the color for each vertex in a model. I'd like to use animation nodes to drive the colors of ...
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Blender painting brushes shortcut selection polygons 2.82. Coloring a character with vertex-group in draw mode
How do I select through the shortcuts the polygons that I am going to color or modify? In the video-tutorials I often see using the selection of polygons in the edit mode but I don't know how to use ...
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Help make script work on all selected obj instead of just one
Below is the code that is for flipping the vertex on an object. I want it so I can select all objects and run the script it does it to all the objects selected instead of doing them individually. If ...
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how to programatically color an arbitrarily large number of faces
I've got a bit of a puzzler here
I am using blender to import 3d plots that I generate using a 3d graphic utility. What I want is for the blender objects that I create to have a perfect radius, so ...
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Vertex coloring on textured models to use in Unity? [duplicate]
I am making a Nintendo 64/ PS1 inspired game in Unity. I know that those consoles did not have lighting and instead used vertex colors on textured models to add variations in light and in color to ...
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The object shows in black color after adding color by vertex paint
I'm following a tutorial on YouTube. I painted my object without any problem with Vertex Paint by selecting the vertices and correct colors has been appeared on my object. Unfortunately, the object's ...
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How can I use vertex paint with another material?
I made a new model and i followed a tutorial. I made a texture and I want to add some color with vertex paint. I tried it, but it doesn't show up on the render. What should I do?
Is this possible at ...
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Vertex color Animation from houdini to blender 2.8
i am trying to export a alembic from houdini to blender. This mesh has a Cd atribute with an animation.
I was able to export a still frame using the ROP alembic node in houdini. I can use the vertex ...
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Remove viewport noise
I'm working with color sensitive data in vertex colors, and the only way I can retrieve these colors in real-time is to capture them off the mesh they're applied to (otherwise, I have to locate the ...
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How to copy one object's vertex-color layer to the other same shape object's vertex-color layer2
I draw a color layer in ZBrush and explored to Blender.then,I want to add a Roughness layer with ZbrushPolyPaint,but ZB just Only one vertex-layer is allowed.When i explore the same model with ...
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Can't get 2 Dynamic Paint Canvases to render at once - Blender 2.8
Trying to render both the waves and trail of a boat using 2 dynamic paint canvases, one of the Waves Surface Type, and one of the Paint Surface Type. The two show up together perfectly in the viewport,...
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Vertex Color unreadable
I’m using an ‘Attribute’ node to pick my vertex color and filter the green spectrum to input to a coloramp. If I take the ‘fac’ socket as output it works fine, but then I lose the filter color ...
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when adding custom-data layers to bmesh object, where does the data get stored once bpy mesh object is updated?
I am trying to add custom-data layers to mesh vertices so that I may use the values to generate a colorramp on the surface during rendering.
Currently, I first map the data to RGBA values and then ...
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how to use external values as input for color ramp shader node?
All,
I've recently started dabbling in Blender to do some scientific visualization, like ParaView but 1000x prettier :)
At the moment I'm trying to tackle adding a color ramp to a 3D surface. As of ...
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how to modify / customize a coloramp?
New to blender, coming from engineering discipline and want to learn more about rendering CFD/model results in Blender.
Right now I'm struggling with generating a coloramp for a 3d surface. What I've ...
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vertex coordinates not aligned with vertex_colors
In cannot color a vertex according to it's xy coordinate. Some of the vertex have their colors swapped. In the following code I create a simple plane on the XY plane with coordinates (0,0,0) (1,0,0) (...
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Random vertex colors for uv islands
Is it possible to auto assign random vertex colors for every UV island... so it will be more visible in the 3d view?
Like in 3d-coat
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How to add vertices to make baking into vcol more accurate?
I was wondering how I'd be able to create new geometry to make baking shading into VCol more accurate.
Something like this is what I'm looking for:
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From texture painting to UV map
I'm a newbie and I have a hypothetical question that is interested in me.
For example, the man has a 3D-model and texture painting therefore he has a UV map.
The man detects a mistake in UV and ...
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Hide vertex colors in vertex painting view
Simply put, I struggle with the same problem found on this unanswered question:
Hide Vertex Colors while painting
Is there a way to disable displaying vertex colors while in vertex color painting ...
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Are Vertex Color layers limited to 8?
Why is there a limit for vertex-colour layers? Is this a bug or
is there a reason, why I cant add more than 8 vertex-color layers?
I will make a bug-report if it is a bug - but I'm not sure for now.
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Weight Paint to Vertex Color OR as Shader input
Is there a way to use weight paint to influence vertex color or to use it as a attribute value for a shader?
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Feather / Blend Vertex Colors into Material During Rendering?
Is it possible to nicely blend vertex painted areas into the material color? The attached picture is my attempt to do so, but as can be seen, the areas around the vertex-painted areas are grey. I ...
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How can I use vertex colors as an input in my material? [duplicate]
I want to use vertex colors as a mix factor in my material. However when I chose Add->Input the option Vertex Colors doesn't show up. Why can I not access the vertex colors data? I want to avoid using ...
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how do I add vertex paint over a base material?
I have a model with a green base material, and I want to add vertex paint, but I don't know how to add the vertex paint in a way that doesn't fill the rest of the model with white.
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Is there a way in Blender 2.8.1 to use indexed colors in vertex painting
I am looking for a way to do vertex painting in Blender with indexed colors, so that one could have a palette of colors and assign a index of those colors to a vertex. This would enable a way to ...
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I can only see vertex colors in Vertex Paint mode - otherwise gray
I'm using Blender 2.81 beta. I imported a large glTF model which has only vertex colors. (I can see them in other glTF apps like the web viewers.) After the import completes (it takes a while, 7M ...
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Blender 2.81 doesn't seem to be importing vertex color for .ply
So people have had similar problems showing colors on .ply files here and here but I don't think this is the same case. I've exported a .ply file from a program called paraview with color info on it....
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Is it possible to stick vertices, and for them not to be affect by proportional editing
I have a tablet/pill shape, and I want to select all the outer vertices or edges, and have them stay where they are, so that when I do a proportional edit, they remain fixed, and so the edges/vertices ...
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Baking Texture to Vertex Color: what's under the hood?
Blender 2.9 user here.
I make intense use of the "bake texture" option in the Render tab, with the option "bake to vertex color" activated. I do this in order to later export a .ply file which ...
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How to StringProperty to bpy.context.object.data.vertex_colors?
I was wondering, if it were possible and how, I was looking at the bees but this is not present in bpy.types so I don't really know how and if you can add a StringProperty, to this
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Get smoke color from flow object Vertex Color
I have an alembic cache of an animated object with animated vertex color and I'm using this as a flow object for a smoke simulation. All that is generating smoke well, but...
Does anyone know how I ...
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Viewport colors look darker in Vertex Paint mode Blender 2.8
Viewport shading set to solid and color to vertex with flat shading,
the colors appear to be darker in vertex paint mode than in object mode.
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How to paint vertex alpha for use in Unreal/Unity or cycles
How can I paint vertex alpha in Blender 2.8 so it can be used either for Unreal/Unity or even for use in cycles renderings. And how can I see this in a viewport?
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Vertex color display
Blender v2.79 user over here. I've baked my texture to vertex colors and I was wondering: is there a way to view the RGB color of a selected vertex, much like you can see the XYZ coordinates of it in ...
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Feature Points on Mesh
I didn't start using Blender yet since I would like to know whether it's is the correct place to do my work on.
The case is as follows:
I have a mesh (XYZ- coordinates, faces) represented as Graph(...
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No objects or images to bake to error, driving me nuts [duplicate]
I am trying to bake texture for a model, and I get the infamous error "No objects or images to bake to". I have done a lot of googling to try and solve this, and in particular I have read pretty much ...
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How do I change the vertex color layer limit? (2.79)
I am very new to anything scripting so bare with me.
I am trying to create a script that exports out a ply sequence with a different baked vertex color per frame of the sequence.
I did some ...
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Remove from vertex color group data about another group
I have two groups Vertex Colors. One is Face another Cheeks. I want to ...
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How to color vertices of cube
I am trying to color the vertex points of a octahedron and want to have control over how they blend into each other.
I am using a mapping node but am not able to achieve the desired result.
The ...
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Change vertex color by selection
Is there a way to set the vertex color by selecting vertex or faces rather than painting? I know there is a way in maya, but I can't seem to find a way to do it in blender.
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How to correctly separate vertex color data into the R channel on EEVEE? [closed]
for some reason if I add (in the shader tree) the ATTRIBUTE>COL from the vertex color property and channel it to a separate RGB (only making the R channel plug into a ramp node and then to the shader ...
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Texture is not baking correctly in Bake Mode: Vertex Colors
I have done vertex paint for one of my models. After vertex paint, I baked the texture, but it spoiled the model. I followed the procedure in this video for baking. The result is below.
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how to add vertex colors to multiple objects using animation nodes
What are the steps to assign a list of colors to the vertex color of a list of objects? The 'set vertex color' node does not accept a
list of colors and a list of objects. So how to wrap this action ...
