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 can I set and get the vertex color property?
I can't find a way to display RGB values (or equivalent) without using the python shell.
I would like to get and set color values numerically (ie. not painting), I can't find it for weight painting ...
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How can vertex paint be rendered?
I have added some vertex paint and would like to see it in the render.
It looks simple enough on all the tutorials, except I don't have those options available; Having spent hours researching I am ...
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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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How to bake to vertex colors in blender cycles?
The long way I do this is:
have cycles render selected
setup the materials of a mesh
create it's UV coordinates
create a new image and assign it to the mesh
bake
change from cycles to ...
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How to colour vertices of a beveled curve mesh without converting to mesh?
For scientific visualisation, I'm using a lot of splines which are bevelled with an object (i.e. a hexagon). I control the level of details depending on the context.
Without losing the benefits of ...
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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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How can I get the color in the middle of a face using Python?
Say I have a mesh and I have colored the vertices using vertex paint, how can I then get the average of the colors or rather the color in the middle of the face or the color under the normal (shown ...
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Geometry Nodes output to vertex color
I'm new to geometry nodes in 3.0 and a bit stuck on understanding how to output data. I've spent a fair bit of time searching this, but perhaps I don't understand the system well enough to find the ...
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Import PLY doesn't display vertex colors
I'm trying to import a .PLY mesh in Blender.
I've troubles with colors: the mesh appear in a grayscale palette.
Other softwares open it correctly (eg. MeshLab).
This is the header of the PLY file:
<...
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File format with per face colors
I am trying to export a mesh from some scientific experiment (in MATLAB) and load it in blender for rendering. I'd like to assign per-face colors (as opposed to per-vertex with interpolation over ...
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How to view vertex' colors?
I'm a beginner.
Is it possible (and if so, how) to select a single vertex and change its color? I tried the "Vertex paint" mode, but couldn't find a way to select a single vertex and view its color.
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Linking the color of one mesh to a second mesh
I have a series of tubes that were inputted as VRMLs with varying colors. I have made a path out of them and have the sphere following the tubes. I want to link the color of the sphere to be the same ...
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How to animate vertex color of an object?
Is it possible to animate the vertex color of an object?
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