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 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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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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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 ...
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Per-Vertex Color
There is already a post about this (reference:
https://cvl-demos.cs.nott.ac.uk/vrn/index.php), but it hasn't been resolved and I'm evidently too much of a noob to even comment on it, but I'm having ...
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Bake a texture to vertex color in Blender 2.8
In Blender 2.8 was removed Blender Render, where was option "Bake Texture to Vertex Color". Unfortunately in Eevee there is no such functionality.
I like new Blender 2.8 very much, but I can't use it ...
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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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How to see vertex alpha transparency?
How can I see vertex alpha as I paint it in Vertex Paint mode in 2.8? I get how to see vertex colors, via the node system, in LookDev, but I can't seem to figure how to see vertex alpha as I go to add ...
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How to get into second vertex color?
Edit: For all viewers which can have similar problem - if your addon is importing vertex color but you don't see second or another one then you should make sure that this script even has these kind of ...
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Having issues with Low Poly Texture Colours
Blender Novice here.
I been getting into some basic low poly modelling for unity and have been working on applying a simple solid color texture to one of my trees.
The issue is that the colors seem ...
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How do I set a vertex color material in Blender 2.8?
I have a model with vertex colors in it. I would like to display it in rendered shading. There is no more an input called vertex color.
I'm using Blender -2.80-387c1f2e0d5d-linux-glibc224-x86_64
How ...
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Gradient-Coloring Vertices Based on Global Z-Loc Not Working As Expected
I tried to write my own code that changes vertex colors based on the vertex Z-location(global). Which I derived from these links:
How can I get vertex positions from a mesh?
https://blenderartists....
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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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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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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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How to export a .fbx file with vertex colors for substance painter
I am trying to use vertex colors in order to utilize substance painter's ID mask baking functionality. Is there any way to export vertex colors in the high-poly .fbx file to generate the ID map? I ...
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Cycles Gradient between two materials
How do i create gradient between two materials in one mesh? (second screenchot was edited in PS)
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Offset based on Vertex Colors
For you a tricky question : do you know a way to apply negative and positive offsets on different surfaces based on its colors in Blender ?
For this key, the green represents the surfaces without ...
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Cant find attribute node
Complete and utter noob to 3d traditional 3d modeling, let alone blender.
I was going to learn how to do lighting, but the imported colours are considered vertex colors, and cannot be rendered without ...
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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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How to paint vertex alpha in the new version for unity?
https://youtu.be/DMS1I-gJkzE
According to google, making bottom vertecies opaque and top ones transparent should fix the sliding grass issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbpCZuGe7M
I tried ...
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Texture becomes black when tryng to bake vertex color to texture!
when I UV smart project my model, then open a new file (thats black) where I want my vertex color to bake to. The texture only becomes black. It doesnt make any sense.
Please look at attached file:
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Animation Node (Vertex color) and Cycles Node (Gradient)
I have a problem creating a color gradient in the AN grid (I used vertex color, but only one color remains). This image below shows the effect you would like to have on AN. But I used the array and ...
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Blender 2.8 How to make the object color in viewport look excatly as it is?
So I'm making the models for a game that only uses vertex colors and no textures.
I've noticed that any color in blender 2.8 viewport looks darker that it actually is. I use vertex painting to paint ...
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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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Animation nodes - Vertex colors to transforms?
I apologize if this looks as spamming, but I think this should be a different question, though I am trying to achieve similar goal. I want to be able to influence matrices with several different ...
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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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How to change color only of selected objects in a matrix?
I'm trying to exempt a couple of objects from being colored by an 'empty' which is coloring the cube matrix based on the distance.
In the image there are 2 empties: one is coloring the cubes blue, ...
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Store unique vertex ID in vertex color
Script from this answer encodes polygons ID to vertex colors:
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