Paint with Different Vertex Color Channels

Hey all,

I’m working on an asset pipeline for a game and had a few questions on Blender’s Vertex painting capabilities.

Ideally I’d like to be able to bake vertex AO onto my model using Blender’s “Dirty Vertex Colors” option so that I can rout it into our game via a material. The problem that I’m running into is that, while I can bake it to the vertices, it bakes the AO to the R, G, and B channels. I’d like to bake it to only one of the channels so that the other channels can be used for other purposes in our engine - such as using the G and B channels to blend between different textures in our material. I have noticed that the vertex data isn’t baked to the A channel though, perhaps this is related?

in short:

  • Blender bakes vert AO to R, G, and B.
  • need vert AO on R only. How?
  • Why aren’t these values stored in A too?

Thanks,
Shock-Socks
Portfolio: http://steve.artstation.com

Bump.

I haven’t been able to find much info on this and I would really love some input :\