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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.

The Blender manual describes Vertex Painting thusly

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.

Vertex Painting is accomplished by selecting an object and entering Vertex Paint mode in the 3D Viewport.

Use this tag for questions about using vertex painting in Blender.

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Is there a way to set vertex color of selected vertices with single click?

I have some objects that I want to set the vertex colors of. While I can use my tablet to do this in vertex paint mode, for the project I'm working on, I just need to flood fill the selected vertices with my current color. Basically, I want to…
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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 weight paint like this: So maybe a script that…
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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 Python skills are non existent, but I would love to…
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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. In the following image, I painted a stroke in the top-right panel. It…
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Cannot See Vertex paint in viewport shader

I just started with blender and can't figure out how to view vertex paint in rendered viewport shader mode! this is really annoying and all I can find out is how to do it in older versions but I'm in 2.93.0 and those options are gone! please help…
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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 need it in the middle. The more exact the better. I…
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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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How to see everything in colour

I draw colour on my mesh with vertex paint. I see colour on one piece of the mesh at a time in vertex paint mode. How do i see everything in colour in edit mode and sculpt mode?
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Vertex Paint not painting the areas selected on Blender2.8

So I'm literally using blender 2.8 for the first time and I'm following a tutorial to make a low-poly island. I'm at where I want to paint the tip of my mountains white (while preserving the low-poly effect), what I'm doing is I selected the faces I…
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How showing vertex paint in object mode blender 2.8

I want to show vertex paint in object mode in blender 2.80.
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Is there a way to vertex paint occluded vertices?

Is there a way to vertex-paint-brush vertices that are behind the faces? Kind of like x-ray select, but x-ray paint? There is an option "Front Faces Only", but even if it's off, it doesn't seem to do this (actually I can still paint on backfaces…
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Is it possible to blend from 1 to zero in Vertext Paint mode?

I want to paint vertices like the image (It is done in Photoshop). The first row is red with alpha 1 and the 6th row is red with alpha zero. I want to blend from 1 to zero in specific area.
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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 made in low poly (painting faces with solid…
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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 slightly in vertex color balance and brightness from…
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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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