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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How to transfer vertex paint from one mesh to another - without copying other data
I need to transfer vertex volors from one mesh to another. They are the same but first one has normals that i want to keep, second contains vertex color i want to transfer but doesn't have normal info....
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Blender colour through Z vertice
Hello I've read a few threads on this but i havent found anything with my specific issue. I want to try colouring my mesh based on specific Z values. So for example if its above 10 I want it to be red....
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adding texture on vertex color by mixrgb makes texture image lighter on white vertex color
When editing a vertex color and then adding an image as texture on it with mixrgb it is lightening the texture image. i only changed the vertex color.
When it is on brown the texture image is correct ...
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Separation of a multicolor 3D object in X3D format based on its individual colors
I am a biochemist and I would love to 3D print a multicolor model of the Corona Virus Spike protein by means of a FDM 3D printer.
As input file I downloaded a multicolor X3D-file from https://3dprint....
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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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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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Import .ply with vertex colors into Blender
I'm trying to render something that would look like this:
I've had a similar problem here: Blender 2.81 doesn't seem to be importing vertex color for .ply
And in that question I linked where ...
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for all objects, rename 'Vertex Colors" that has a certain name :: using python
Many objects in my scene has Vertex color (left image) that is used in Shader Node (right image).
^ I want to change color1 to a more meaningful name e.g. ...
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Rig rest position in Vertex Paint?
Is there any way to display the rig in it's resting position only in Vertex Paint? The rig is pre-posed to a position I want however since the hands are curling inwards, I can't see the entirety of ...
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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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Where is sculpt vertex paint in 2.92? [closed]
I have seen YouTube videos featuring sculpt vertex paint but the buttons for it don't appear in my sculpt menu. Some people have said it's an experimental feature that needs to be activated in the ...
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When I paint in vertex paint mode, can I paint per vertex with python script?
I know that selecting vertices is possible in edit mode. I want to color after selecting a vertex in vertex paint mode. Is that possible?
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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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Dynamic Paint - "Use Object material" for Brush removed in Blender 2.8?
Blender 2.79 has the option to use the material color as the brush.
Did 2.8 remove this option? Has it something to do with Blenders internal render getting removed or what's the reason?
My goal is to ...
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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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Why have I got an extra vertex when exporting to ply format?
The following is a very simple object in Blender (that I have cut out from a much larger object in order to highlight where the issue lies). It has nine vertices and four quad faces. There is vertex ...
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List vertex colors from a bmesh
I'm working on a custom exporter for an external software.
I need to get a list of the vertex colors from a triangulated mesh.
To get the triangulated mesh I use this code:
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How to convert vertex colors to materials
Title says it all
How do I convert vertex colors into materials?
I need this because .OBJ doesn't export the vertex colors with it
it doesn't need to be 100% accurate, if there were dark red and ...
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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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Color into Alpha - Nodes and Vertex Paint
As a way of easily blending materials together on a single object, and to allow me to do so on arbitrary parts of the model (without needing to segregate a specific part of the model's UV map or ...
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Is there a way to have more vertex colors per mesh? Or at least some kind of workaround?
At the moment it won't let me create more than eight, the add button doesn't work after that number.
I use these for different "handpainted" lighting effects for different scenes with the ...
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Purchased a rigged character, but can't vertex paint
I purchased a royalty free rigged hamster from TurboSquid but the colors are wrong and don't fully match the colors on my free downloaded hamster from TurboSquid. I tried to create a New Material to ...
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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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Section of my object is darker than the rest
here's an image of my issue:
I'm attempting to create a model, and I'm using vertex paint in order to colour certain faces. However no matter how I paint it one section of the model will appear much ...
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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 can I reset a Grease Pencil object's vertex colors?
This is my blend file. It has 2 GP objects. In object mode everything is colored correctly. If I switch from solid mode to Material preview or display render preview mode The GP Objects turn ...
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How do i merge all vertex color layers?
I have three layers, i tried using the Data Transfer modifier to combine them all into one, but it ended up with Strongly Highlighted...
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Change color of selected edge/line
I have an object with complex mesh. Can i go to edit mode and change color of some edges/lines, so they will show that selected color in viewport ?
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How to get the color of a vertex group with python?
Is it possible to get the color of a vertex group that is coloured with dynamic paint? I have a mesh of tree which was created from particle instance and then applied. Then I joined all of that to ...
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Using Blender and PLY file, how to render a grayscale image with assigned intensities at each vertex?
I can programatically generate PLY files with RGB color values as attributes for each vertex, like below
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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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Using a Mix Shader to blend 2 Principled BSDF (CYCLES)
Hey Blender Community,
I am having a recurring problem when trying to blend 2 Quixel Megascans together using the mix shader and vertex colour. Both materials work great on their own but when trying ...
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Is there a way to change the colour of displaced areas only?
I've created this model and created displacement using a combination of weight painting and the displacement modifier to create some intense wrinkles. Is there way that i can change the colour or ...
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How do I show vertex colors in Edit Mode in 2.9? [closed]
I just moved from Blender 2.79 to 2.9 (so this may also apply to 2.8)…
How can I view vertex colors when I'm in Edit Mode?
I have the viewport set to Solid in viewport settings.
Everything is fine in ...
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How to interpolate vertex colors in a cube?
I have this model made out of cubes:
And I want to set the white cube some vertex colors, which correspond to the vertex's surrounding cube/cubes and interpolate between them. Note that this cube ...
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Is there a Blender api to fill a color to a certain vertex_colors?
Taking a cue from this question, I'm testing to make a one-color fill to a vertex_colors.
Works fine, but is very slow on meshes with many polygons.
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Can I vertex paint in eevee or is it a cycles thing only?
I would like to make some meshes that are deformed and paint the vertexes to created a nebula of light in a volumetric of colours and was looking to vertex paint in blender 2.83.4 but do not see any ...
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Combine two vertex color layers?
This one is still version 2.79. I would like to combine the two vertex color layers into one. These are what the layers look like:
I want to add them onto each other.
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Vertex color gradient is not linear
I am painting the default cube through vertex coloring. I paint the bottom four vertices as (0.25, 0.25, 0.25) and the top four vertices as (0.75, 0.75, 0.75).
When I inspect the result in VERTEX ...
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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
a cleaned up duplicate
What i ...
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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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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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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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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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