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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Vertex colors with skin modifier
I have some curves that I want to render in Cycles; these are not blender curves, instead they are composed of a set of vertices, each having a color, and edges (but no faces).
Using the skin ...
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Retrieve vertex colors in 2.8
2.79 allowed you to set shading to flat, which would render the vertex color 1:1 on screen (assuming the entire normal had been solidly colored and noting else is being set to diffuse, of course ...
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Weight paint only working on some vertices? [v2.73]
I am trying to weight paint a mesh for a unity game, and only a few if any of the vertices are being painted. This is something I was able to do a while back in version 2.49, but now it doesn't work. ...
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Blender ColorRamp strange behavior
I found an unexpected behavior of ColorRamp node and I will demonstrate it on a simple example.
There are five cubes and they have vertex colours set. From left, the colours are in RGB: (0.0, 0.0, 0.0)...
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Per-Face Vertex Color from Image Texture
Is it possible to convert a UV mapped image texture into per-face vertex color?
I found this script that can generate Per-face vertex color from Normals of 2.79, or an add-on Bake vertex color, but it ...
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How to access hidden value in Uvmap (UVWT)
I got a really specific question for an expert.
I learned recently there is no such thing as Vector 2 in a graphic shader. Every Vector is in reality a Vector 4. Like vertex colors are not just Vector ...
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How to import Alembic Vertex Colors from Houdini correctly?
I've exported a simple scene from houdini with a few geometries, and written into the vertex colors, Cd, for each mesh a different gray value like:
(.1,.1,.1)(.2,.2,.2) ... etc
When I import this ...
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Colorize Instances according to vertex color or UV map
I have a vertex colored model (1) and I'm using Cells v1.2 to generate a hollow voxel model of my Object.(2)
I want to change the object color of every instance/voxel according to the underlying ...
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Any way to have more than 8 vertex paint slots?
Currently there is a limit of 8 vertex paints slots, is there anyway to have more than 8 slots?
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Geometry Nodes: How to make a vertex color gradient on a tree depending on distance to root point?
I'm trying to create a vertex color gradient on a mesh created by converting a branch made with hand drawn curves to a mesh using geometry nodes.
I want to color each edge ring on the created mesh ...
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Why is the vertex color interpolated differently in different cube faces?
I realise this might be a very simple and stupid question as I am just getting started with Blender.
I am trying to procedurally colour vertices to produce pseudo-colour maps.
I created this simple ...
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How to make a gouraud shading material
i would like to make a material that uses gouraud shading instead of phong :
That means that the shader is per vertex and not per pixel, i thought i could use the parametric input but it didn't lead ...
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make Blender displays vertex color of unselected faces, WITHOUT Blender's white-mix foggy mask
The below image shows the vertex color of an object.
The vertex color of left & right parts are exactly symmatric (R,G,B,Black,White).
However, if I select only right faces, the left faces will ...
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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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How to color line set with vertex colors?
I would like to use vertex colors to paint an extruded line set but do not succeed to do it.
In detail, I export a scene in X3D format from paraview. It consist of a panels and lines that are colored ...
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Controlling Node Based Displacement
Hey I'm making a model that uses the experimental microdisplacement to make bumps on my mesh, but I only want the bumps to be in certain parts of the mesh. Is there some way to use vertex groups or ...
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How many bits per channel we have for storing vertex color data?
As in title. I want to know how precise vertex color data is in Blender.
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is it possible to declare what info is duplicated during subdivision?
I'm looking to write a script for fun and testing. I want to subdivide a mesh but only the vertex color info. In short, I want blender to create more room for uvless painting with out carrying twice ...
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How can I get the viewport in rendered shading mode to update in real time during vertex painting in cycles?
I try to use vertex painting in cycles as a factor to mix two different materials, which works perfectly fine. However, while I paint the object in the viewport in rendered shading mode, the viewport ...
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Above Threshold and Below Threshold in DataTransfer Modifier?
I'm working on DataTransfer Modifier to blend vertex color of 2 colors layer , it worked but i dont understand how Mix Mode : Above Threshold and Below Threshhold worked , i tried to modified Mix ...
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Is there a way to make the same form sculpt mode smoothing in texture paint?
Is there a way to integrate more the one color with smoth in texturing painting?
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How to get vertex colors efficiently?
I need to export vertex colors from Blender to a custom mesh format. To do it, I need to create a dictionary where the vertex index is a key and color is a value, as proof of concept I wrote this but ...
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How do I save a selection of points in a curve in blender 3.2?
Vertex group is not in the object data tab, vertex color is also not there. All the tutorials point that it should be there.
The points in a curve are vertices, correct? So, I should be able to save ...
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How to export .x3d file(frp, paraView) as FBX with colour?
I am trying to export my .x3d model to FBX with the ultimate goal of importing to unity. The model has colours stored as vertex paint, so initially the model is white. When I add a colour attribute to ...
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How to denoise when baking into vertex color (color attributes)
I've been searching for quite a while for a solution for this but haven't been able to find anything.
As part of custom level making for the PC port of jak and daxter, the vertex colors are used as ...
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Jagged result of baked vertex color
My model has vertex color.
I unwrap using Smart UV Project with default (Angle limit 66 and Correct Aspect selected). In shading node, I linked Vectec Color (Col) > Principle BSDF > Material ...
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How to colour particles (in particle settings) based on vertex colour of emitter object
In Blender 2.8, cycles renderer.
I'm using an imported .ply object (which includes vertex colours) to generate a single particle on each vertex of the object. The idea is to create a point cloud ...
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How to convert a mesh with vertex colors to grease pencil and keep the vertex colors?
I have a Mesh that has Vertex Colors. Is there a way to convert the coloured mesh to grease pencil, and keep the Vertex Colors? Right now, when I convert it, the lines only become black.
I am using ...
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Why is my tension map turning out as bumps?
I am having a problem with an tension map addon. https://blenderartists.org/t/revised-mesh-tension-add-on/1239091 <- that one. and the tutorial (by kext next) I was following is https://www.youtube....
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How to use two displacement material in one plane?
I was making a terrain, actually making a path on the terrain,so I have to combine two materials together with their own displacement maps.
Now I know how to do it for those normal materials, I just ...
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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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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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How to loop import vertex color to get the second one
I want to get some knowledge for fixing up my issue, which is I cannot import second vertex color. I'm using add-on to do so but it has not this feature. So what I am asking for is to make comments ...
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Replace all white vertices with color of my choice Blender
I need a way to replace all white vertices in the scene with color of my choice via python or tools.
The real problems is that I make models with vertex colors and I apply Cell Fracture. ...
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Reset and Layout UV is really slow
I have this 3D Voxel sculpture, this was made of thousands of Box objects, but merged into a single object and it has a nice Vertex Color per Box.
Anyhow, I would like to somewhat layout the UV of ...
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Editing and displaying different "layers" of vertex colors
I'm given a mesh with vertex colors that display the original material/color of an object. Now I want to classify these vertex colors according to the different materials they can be divided into.
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Attribute node for Vertex color texturing problem
I would like to use vertex color information for texturing. I found some description on the web but there is something what I can't figure out. If I use a color at 0.5 value, the FAC value through ...
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How to correctly use vertex colors?
I exported the model into Unity and only the blue faces are shown. I think am doing something wrong, because when I select the blue ones they appear alone, but when I select the red ones both are ...
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Can a cycles material input a texture from outside of the material?
I'm creating a Blender cycles material that combines a mesh's vertex colors with a texture.
I use the Attribute node to get the vertex colors, and the Image Texture node to get the texture:
I want ...
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Colour Bleeding
I have made this circle for an eye. I would like the white to fill the selected faces only, but for some reason it is going way beyond. Any ideas what I could do? Many thanks!
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Convert (bake ? ) cycles shaders to vertex colors for 3D printing
Is there any solution to "bake" vertexcolors from cycles shaders, such as voronoi, cells, pointiness etc...?
I want to make some colorful patterns by mixing shaders on objects via cycles and then ...
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Remove alpha from vertex color
I have some meshes that I baked the materials in to vertex color and it works fine. But when I export to FBX, all the vertex colors are RGBA while all the alpha values are 1.0. Is there a way to get ...
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why is my rendered image different from what I see in my 3D view?
I am trying to load a specific mesh with texture into blender using bpy. With a lot of help from this community, I have managed to load both the mesh and texture.
Our question
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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 to mix Vertex Colours with character's Diffuse Texture? (Blender Internal)
I'm currently on my wit's end trying to find an answer to this that works for me, but every question and answer are referring to something different from my situation, and with most being Cycles-only ...
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I can't export vertex colors anymore in Blender 3.2
I just upgraded from Blender 3.1 to 3.2 because I was excited about the changes to vertex colors but I've been disappointed to find that none of the exporters support them. Currently I'm exporting a ...
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How to split vertices by vertex color
I'm using vertex colors, since that's what my minimal game engine understands, but it only understands them on a per-triangle basis, and cannot interpolate across a triangle. Blender internally seems ...
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Vertex color applied on curves with geometry nodes wont display on Solid Flat in Blender 3.5
On Blender 3.4.1, after applying a geometry nodes modifier with a set vertex color to a curve, you can display that curve with flat vertex color on the Solid > Flat > Attribute.
However, from ...
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How do you transfer weight paint or vertex colors to another model in blender?
I got a model then rigged it with AccuRig. When I imported the model into blender, the colors were all gone.
So I tried transferring the vertex colors. That didn't work.
Then I tried transferring the ...
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Converting vertex colours to UV coordinates
So I've got a colour attribute that needs to be converted into a UV map. My color attribute just so happens to only be using R and G values, and what I want is for the R value to be converted into the ...
