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Is it possible to paint only on selected vertices in vertex paint?
Face selection masking is available in the 3D header when in 'Vertex Paint' mode:
Because this works on faces you will only be able to paint vertices that make up a face, individual vertices or edges ...
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Is it possible to paint only on selected vertices in vertex paint?
One way you can do this is with the mask modifier:
Add a vertex group of the vertices you want to paint on (or the area you don't want to paint on, whichever is easier)
Add a mask modifier and toggle ...
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Bake a texture to vertex color in Blender 2.8
It's not as full-featured as the script you've posted, but I've come up with a very simple Bake-UV-to-Vertex-Colors script:
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Is there a way to set vertex color of selected vertices with single click?
Yes, there is a way.
Edit
Actually, you can skip Edit mode.
One can also select vertices directly in Vertex paint mode and then "Paint -> Set vertex colors"
Tab into edit mode, and ...
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Is there a way to set vertex color of selected vertices with single click?
You can apply the currently active vertex color for all vertices at once while in Vertex Paint Mode. Just select (Paint -> Set Vertex Colors) from the header menu. Basically, you set the dominant ...
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Vertex color gradient is not linear
The gradient is linear but not in the colourspace you are expecting - as evidenced by the following :
Here the Attribute node is making the Vertex Color (Col) available to the shader. This is split ...
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Is it possible to unwrap materials made in Vertex Paint?
You can bake Vertex colors to a texure.
Starting from a vertex color layer as in the picture below
you must unwrap your model (which may consist of one or multiple meshes) and create a new image to ...
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How showing vertex paint in object mode blender 2.8
When in Solid Shading Mode, go to the config panel found in the top right corner of the viewport and for color select Vertex Colors where probably Material is currently selected
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Is it possible to set the vertex color alpha component?
An alpha channel exists for the Attribute node with support for vertex color since Blender v2.92 came out back on February 25, 2021 (see release notes).
But since v2.81 released on November 21, 2019 (...
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Per face vertex coloring
You can achieve this using Texture Paint and a carefully crafted UV map with each face taking up the space of only one pixel. This will mean that the entire face relates to a single pixel in the image ...
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Per face vertex coloring
Adjacent faces can have different plain colors, and a vertex can have a different color for each face it participates to.
In 2.79, it's possible to select the faces in Vertex Paint mode, and use 'Set ...
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Flat vertex painting, or face painting?
Select faces in Edit mode
Switch to Vertex Paint mode and press Face selection masking for painting button (3D view -> bottom panel -> button with cube icon (next to layers selection)
Press ShiftK to ...
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In layman's term, what exactly is the difference of vertex paint and UV mapping?
Vertex painting is much more limited. Your mesh's resolution is the upper boundary to the texture detail you can have, since essentially you only have one color per vertex (this color can be a ...
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Does Blender support linear colorspace for vertex colors?
Answering my own question here. Looks like if I use Collada exporter the colors are correct. So they must use linear color space. Maybe it is more of a responsibility of the export plugin to set the ...
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set a specified vertex color to black via python
Look at the loop vert.
Using a method similar to Applying per-vertex colors to new Bmesh
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Change vertex color by selection
Yes, you can select vertex while in paint mode. Just switch to the select tool and change selection mode to vertex. Also note that if you select vertex in edit mode and then switch to paint mode, the ...
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Is there a way to set vertex color of selected vertices with single click?
You still have to go through some steps, but you can save yourself from having to paint the colors on in a tedious way.
Here a little explanatory video:
It's with your words, "flood filling" all ...
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How would one paint a narrow circle around the edge of a circular object in blender
In general, it doesnt sound as useful to draw narrow circle in Vertex Paint. For such result you would need a lot of vertices or very specific vertices for this purpose. It would be better if you can ...
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Painting a Train Model
In this particular case, could be probably easier to assign material to specific object ... or if your train is single object, than assign materials to a specific faces. Like in this sample ...
For ...
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Is it possible to set the vertex color alpha component?
There is no alpha component in vertex colors in Blender. The property is array with size 3, not 4.
You can have any amount of Vertex color layers though.
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Is it possible to copy and paste vertex weight?
In Weight Paint Mode you can set Weight by pressing Shift + K.
Toggle Vertex Selection Masking to select the vertices
Set the Weight (use @joshsanfelici technique to copy vertex value)
Press Shift +...
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How to export vertex colors or vertex group as polygroup for export?
Go to Edit Mode and select what you want to Polygroup.
Go to Object Data tab and click plus next to Vertex Group then assign with your selection active and name if you like.
On obj export make sure ...
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Is it possible to blend from 1 to zero in Vertext Paint mode?
Similar to the answer to Smoothing vertex_colors values this can be achieved by assigning the 'fixed color' vertices to a Vertex Group and using a script to 'smear' the color from those vertices over ...
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Blender Remesh Error in Sculpt mode. How do I decrease the polygons correctly and save the project?
I just wanted to add that I encountered the same choppy model result from remeshing and that closing up all holes in the model solved the problem.
This was the result using Remesh when I had forgotten ...
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Cannot See Vertex paint in viewport shader
I found it out,
go to shader editor
Click "add" and add a "Vertex Color"
click the grey box on the new vertex color and click "Col" or your colormap
Drag onto the circle ...
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How to use a wetmap to distribute particles (how to distribute plants where moisture collects)
Particle Distribution
For the particle distribution, you can bake the Dynamic Paint (the wetmap to be precise) to an image sequence. The landscape object must be UV unwrapped for this to work.
Baking ...
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Some vertices move and are not smooth in pose mode and weight paint
Then you set weight for a vertex, let say 100%, for 1 bone it doesn't mean that this vertex will move 100% with this bone. Not at all. One vertex may be in several groups at the same time, and the sum ...
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Set Vertex normals to vertex color in Python
You must set vcol with loop index, not vertex index, because those are loop data (i.e. one color per face corner):
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"Vertex paint" or Cycles "Mix node" problem?
Having such problems with mask created by Vertex Paint:
First check whether there are double vertices (W >
Remove doubles).
Recalculate normals with Ctrl + N. The result
is better but still weird, ...
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Vertex Paiting slightly hidden parts of the mesh
I think that is not possible to configure the vertex paint brush with the options provided by Blender at this time (2.75a) without scripting yourself the tool you need.
The vertex brush simply cannot ...
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