Questions tagged [vertex-paint]
Vertex Painting is a simple way of painting color onto an object, by directly manipulating the color of vertices, rather than textures, and is fairly straightforward -- The Blender Manual. Use this tag for questions about using vertex painting in Blender.
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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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Shadow control by vertex paint
Is it possible to accomplish something like this or this in blender? In this video you can see some results in BI, but I can't (and many other people in comments) render it (you can download .blend in ...
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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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Use Vertex Painter for texturing?
I'm trying to use Vertex paint to texturing my cube. But colors never show-up in the UVmap window or when export it !?
I don't know where is my fault.
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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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Problem with the weight paint mode when there are a lot of geometry on the mesh
I have some problem with the weight painting of the mesh,check the attached video and tell me please what's the correct way to operate,in this case. Since there are a lot of geometries on the mesh,I ...
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How to repaint certain faces/vertices using vertex paint?
I have been analyzing the whole day, should I use vertex paint or a texture atlas to paint all my models in blender for my diploma thesis I am currently working on (procedural generation of a city ...
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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 to paint Weight Black to Weight Blue?
My question here is how can I get the part in black to blue. (see the images)
I don't know exactly what the weight black does but I think that it disturbing the natural weight paint.
When I paint ...
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When I rotate the palm after automatic weight painting, the forearm skin seems to rotate and looks weird
This image shows the arm before rotation.
Here its after rotation.
How to correct it and is there any tutorial series for weight painting?
My .blend file can be found here:
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Where is the Materials Options panel? Blender v2.78
I've been trying to work with vertex painting in Blender v2.78 cycles and I can't seem to find the Materials Options panel.
I am referencing the introduction provided on the Blender 2.78 manual here....
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Is it possible to change the brush on the vertex paint option?
I want to paint snow on top of a material and I found that vertex paint combined with an attribute node and a mix shader will allow me to mix two materials with what I paint in the vertex paint mode. ...
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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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Vertex painting smoothly
anyone know if there's a way to avoid this while vertex painting?
Thanks
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How can I paint on specific masked vertices even if they don't form faces?
I need to vertex-paint some models. It would be very time-consuming to paint each vertex individually because I have lots of models that have lots of hidden vertices. Instead, I am trying to select ...
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Adjust color balance/brightness/contrast on scanned mesh
I am currently learning how to use blender as a tool to clean up and edit 3D scans. I am currently working on really large scans which were split in multiple chunks. Some of the chunks differs ...
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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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How to disable All Face and Vertex modes when vertex painting?
I know the options are available in older builds of Blender, and can be ticked in vertex paint mode, but I cannot find them in the current version. Anyone know how I can paint vertexes on specific ...
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Vertex Vertices Weight Paint
I am having a weight paint issue, I can't figure out way this wraps up the way it does, it twists at the ankle and dissforms. Can you help?
blend file:
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Is it possible to use vertex paint with symmetry? Mirror modifier not an option
Model is rigged, UV-mapped, shape keys made, etc., so I can't cut the model in half and use the mirror modifier to "cheat". Help appreciated.
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vertex displaced dynamic paint canvas does not render
I am animating a metal object permanently denting a plastic object that it comes into contact with. The white plastic object is using the dynamic paint physics modifier and is set as the canvas. The ...
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Vertex Paint - creating gradient from selected vertices?
So what I want to create vertex paint gradient from selected edge loops like this:
In this picture I did with brush, but I have some bigger models so it could be tedious. I know you can do this in ...
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Is there a way to center a stencil map in the 3D View?
Vertex Paint mode, Texture painting with Stencil Map.
The map gets created down left in the 3D View. And clicking at the Reset Transform button resets the stencil map back to down left. But i would ...
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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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Is it possible to paint with materials as palette?
I have a situation where it could be a practical approach to assign several materials to a mesh and use these materials as a palette so that we could paint the mesh faces with it.
The only way I ...
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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:
(see the ...
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How to weight all vertices for a selected bone?
I have a mesh that I tried auto painting the weights on. It didn't turn out as expected see this screen shot:
I'd like to set the weight on all vertices for that bone to 0
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How to make dynamic paint brushes to affect some canvases, and not to affect others?
The Sphere is moving and draws dynamic paint on the Cube.
The Cube emits particles that draw dynamic paint on the Plane.
How to make the particles (emitted by the cube), not to draw dynamic
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Fill Mesh Components with Random Vertex Color
I find myself spending a tremendous amount of time preparing my models for export into substance painter. It seems like a macro and or script would be able to do this no problem. Unfortunately my ...
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How texturing works
So i was wondering how actually texturing works. Cause i've seen some videos when people use materials on different part of the bodies, like hair, skin, eyes... and not texture.
I have a model he ...
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Vertex paint colors problem
I am doing a really low poly style for a project that I am working on. We are using vertex paint mode only with physically based rendering in Unity. My issue is occurring during the vertex painting ...
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How can I export vertex paint to Unity?
How can I paint an object in Vertex paint and then export it to Unity, keeping it's colour?
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Is it possible to set the vertex color alpha component?
I work in the game industry and often make shaders that rely on vertex color parameters for certain effects. This is often used to reduce shader complexity and material usage in order to improve ...
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Multiple colors per vertex
I am able to paint model with Vertex Paint.
Colours are very similar to Normals.
It is possible to have 2 or 3 normals per vertex. (smooth/flat)
Is it possible to assign multiple colours per vertex ...
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Texture color with vertex paints
I have a black and white textured 3d model. Is there any way I can vertex paint the model and have the vertex paint serve as a way to "colorize" or change the color of the black and white images to ...
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Change color of texture with vertex paint
I have a texture that is grey scale and another with alpha. I used the second images alpha to make parts of the first image transparent. Is there anyway i can affect the color of the grey scale image ...
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Make vertex paint affect mesh texture greyscale
I vertex painted my mesh. I then unwrapped and assigned a texture.
This is the node setup i used.
It is almost exactly what i want. But. The vertex paint is affecting the transparency of the ...
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Add additional behaviour to brush when using vertex paint mode
I am using vertex paint mode to color my low poly mesh.
Additionally I need to set a metallic and a roughness value when the color is brushed on a vertex. The metallic and roughness values are stored ...
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How to properly set VERTEX_PAINT mode from a python script?
My goal is to get a rendered image of an PLY mesh from command line.
I wrote this script:
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Is it possible to unwrap materials made in Vertex Paint?
I painted an group of objects in Blender using the Vertex Paint and was wondering if it would be possible to unwrap the mutliple materials(when the objects are joined together using Ctrl+J)? Do I have ...
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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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"Vertex paint" or Cycles "Mix node" problem?
I sure I should see blue texture in place of this blue/green jitter.
Why this happens?
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Vertex Paiting slightly hidden parts of the mesh
I'm Vertex Painting an object that is has small depressions and bumps. When I make a stroke from some angle, there seem to be a bunch of vertices that don't receive the stroke.
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Is it possible to copy and paste vertex weight?
Is it possible to copy the vertex weight from 1 vertex on a body mesh, then paste that weight onto ALL the vertex of a selection (basically an accessory that's joined to the body for the purpose of ...
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Set Vertex normals to vertex color in Python
How do i set the vertex color to vertex normal for all vertices of an selected object?
My approach here somehow prints only a few vertices and spares out the rest :(
How can i fix that and include ...
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Is there a way to not limit vertex painting to visible geometry?
Is there a setting for vertex painting which allows you to paint on geometry that is visually obscured from the view by geometry in front of it? (I am looking for something similar to the limit ...
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Is it possible to paint only on selected vertices in vertex paint?
I'm trying to add some fake shading to a model in vertex paint mode, but I'm having trouble because some parts of the mesh hide the vertices I'm trying to paint. Ideally, since I'm painting the same ...
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