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 get diffuse color of a material via Python?
Since I am used to code with Python in Maya I have trouble getting things to work in Blender.
I want to do something specific based on the name of its material that is applied.
But I am really ...
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Changing vertex colors through python
I'm trying to get and set the vertex colors of a mesh through a python script. However, the script seems unable to find the vertex color data, claiming the data set has length 0 despite that clearly ...
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set a specified vertex color to black via python
how to set the vertex color in the center of the mesh to black and the rest of the vertices to red via python? a lot of the answers just tell me that i can color all the vertices in one face like that:...
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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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Transfer vertex colors between objects
I need to vary the vertex colors of a mesh using simulation data (generated using a tool named Paraview).
I imported the mesh and vertex colors in an X3D file, but the vertex colors correspond to ...
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Coloring bevel curve with vertex color
I'm working on a visualization problem.
I'm given a curve with a list of vertices. There is a color assigned to each vertex.
My question is "how do I generate the bevel curve by linearly ...
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Bake vertex colors to texture from mesh
This has been asked before but I can't find the solution now. The solution was something about going into blender render, setting the bake type to vertex colors and then just baking but I'm just ...
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Assign colour to vertices given face texture, and enable conversion to a point cloud
I'm a-bit of a Blender newbie here so please forgive me if what I'm about to say sounds stupid, but I've been trying to solve this issue for far too long now and am becoming way too frustrated...so, ...
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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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Render Vertex Colours in Blender Internal
I don't like using cycles and prefer using blender internal render. So how can I render my vertex colours in Internal render. like as a material.
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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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Setting vertex color with ob.data.vertex_colors["Col"].data[0].color stores values wrong
when I set the color of vertex data with;
ob.data.vertex_colors["Col"].data[0].color = [0.7, 0.5, 0.3]
and then look at the values, they are different
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No objects or images found to bake to
this is my first time trying to do this thing.
So I am trying to bake a Vector painted object onto a texture but I failled.
Video showing the failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOjKZ9u3OD8
I ...
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How to use vertex color if defined, or white otherwise?
I'm fairly new to Blender. I have a Cycles material in Blender 2.79. I'm using an Attribute node with COLOR_0 to get the vertex color and multiplying that into the material color.
But if a particular ...
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How can I keep vertex color accurate on a voxel model thats been converted to a lower poly model?
I'm importing voxel models into Blender from Qubicle, and then turning them into low poly models. I'm using vertex paint, and want to keep each face one solid color. After finishing my model and ...
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Duplication vertex lighting/color
I'm wondering if it is possible to copy vertex lighting from one object to another, similar but different from default one. Here is screen showing what I really want to do ( https://i.stack.imgur.com/...
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Encoding Vertex Position into Vertex Colors
I got a model in -1 to 1 space and I want to encode each vertex position into the the vertex color for future use. There seems to be nothing by default to do that so I will have to use a custom script ...
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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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Does Blender support linear colorspace for vertex colors?
It looks like the vertex colors in Blender are stored using sRGB colorspace. The game engine I'm using (Apple SceneKit) uses linear colorspace. As I export the vertex painted model either using the ...
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Bake per vertex color to Texture
So, I was trying to make the colours of a obj created by this Demo make by the talented people of the Computer Vision Laboratory of University of Nottingham and with no success and frustration I wasn'...
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Can I use the weigh paint information as color vertex information?
I've came up with a question regarding weight painting and color vertex data.
So this is the explanation to my question:
I would like to use the gradient I created as weight paint to create a mask ...
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Bake imported image to vertex colors [duplicate]
I've looked everywhere and can't seem to find an answer to this issue.
All I want to do is generate a UV Map, upload an image onto that UV Map, and then export a .ply file with the vertex colors ...
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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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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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Flat vertex painting, or face painting?
Vertex painting is far too soft for me:
I'm looking to paint something more like this (not exact, but close enough):
Instead of smooth interpolation, color interpolation should be done on a per-face ...
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How do I bake/add material colors onto my UVmap?
I looked everywhere from tutorials to documents and either they only talk about texturing or they are doing the tutorial in 'blender render' when I need it in 'cycles render'.
I have a cube that is ...
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The colors of the layers of my first 2D animation are wrong for some reason
I've just created my first 2D animation and I used separate layers and the "voxel heat diffuse" addon that you can find here.
With it I've been able to make the 2d animation faster. But,anyway,there ...
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How to bake ambient occlusion into vertex colors?
This is frustrating for me. The UV-textures to vertex cols add-on doesn't seem to work despite the specific instructions. Any other tutorials I can find are either very old or very poor.
I'd like to ...
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Is there a way to compute vertex density?
I've got a mesh and am trying to figure out if there is a way to get a map of its vertex density. Ideally it would be something that I could put into a color ramp node and visualize. The goal is to ...
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How to display and use Vertex Color from OBJ model
Recently, I found this funny site, that allows you to generate a 3D model from a 2D image.
It works very well and you can download an OBJ file. Vertex are colored and when I import it using Blender, ...
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Vertex paint colours keep flickering
A Blender beginner here.
So I recently modeled a low poly plane and applied some vertex paint to it, but after I baked the vertex paint to an id colour map the vertex paint started flickering like so
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Vertex colors loose color data
Vertex color data seems to be distorted when used in material nodes, does anybody has similar issues? Looks like Blender modifies them for Cycles somehow. I am using VC not for coloring but for ...
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Vertex colors are wrong value?
I am using a renderlayer with some vertex colors to render some masks. I have an object with a vertex color layer. The entire object is set to RGB values of .25 each (using set vertex colors command.)
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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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Per face vertex coloring
In blender you can color the vertexes. But is there a way to color the faces so the faces have only one color instead of the colors being interpolated based on the colors of the surronding verticies. ...
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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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View vertex color in edit mode instead of material color?
I am using vertex color to create the colorID map for Substance Painter. I canot use materials for this, because I use materials to define Substance Painter's textures sets (there is no other way for ...
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Dilate/expand vertex color mask?
I'd like to use vertex colors in order to apply different shaders on a single object, instead of going through the whole process and drawing a 'black and white' texture (for 1000+ objects).
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Can't export vertex colors in edit mode
I'm trying to write an export script to output vertices and vertex colors in a simple format. The script I've created appears to work fine when run during "Object" or "Vertex Paint" mode, but when I ...
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Using custom vertex data in render
Can float vertex layer data added with bmesh, be used in rendering?
Let us say we added some data to all verteces:
bm.verts.layers.float.new('G')
Can this "G" ...
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How to paint through all mesh during vertex painting?
Tell please how to paint all vertices, not just visible, in vertex paint mode?
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Model Loses all Vertex Color in Render
I have colored my model in Vertex Paint mode, but it loses all coloring once I switch to Render. How do I go about making the color show up when I render it?
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Vertex painting smoothly
anyone know if there's a way to avoid this while vertex painting?
Thanks
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How to convert this vertex paint into a useable material (scripted)?
I have a single, the all-in-one mesh object created and then vertex-painted with a script. I can see the colors in vertex paint mode, but I haven't been able to successfully turn it into a renderable (...
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Applying per-vertex colors to new Bmesh
I'm having trouble applying vertex colors through Python to a mesh. The mesh is imported from a file which has vertex info, face info (vertex indices), and a list of colors that corresponds to each ...
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Different vertex coloring behavior depending on vertices painted
I've been experimenting with vertex colors on the default cube. I've painted three vertices, as is visible in the picture:
My question is, why does the upper right face visible in the picture form a ...
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Vertex paint strange artifacts on big object
I'm experiencing difficulties with vertex paint mode. I got a really huge object (huge in display-size and in vertex-amount) and thus need to zoom out very much to paint it. Looks like this:
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