Vertex Color Master

[Metin_Seven]

@Mr_Flamey

The addon isn’t really intended for working on high poly meshes and painting, but if people are using it that way I can look into features such as blur and sharpen (I was already thinking blur might be useful).

Cool, thanks!

@Mr_Flamey

I don’t quite understand what you mean by grow and shrink. Do you mean a function that would expand an area of white painted on a black background for example? I think if I can get blur working, it would be easy to use a variation of remap to have the same effect as expand/contract (you can do this kind of thing in photoshop using blur and brightness/contrast).

I’m predominantly working with high-res sculpted meshes and would love to see vertex painting in Blender become more like ZBrush polypainting (which is vertex painting). In ZBrush I use masking, expanding and contracting masks, and blurring and sharpening masks to determine areas to fill with black and white polypaint. Then I import the mesh into Blender and use the vertex channel as a mask to color or texture areas in a flexible way.

The drawback of this workflow is that you can only export one polypaint layer to a single vertex color channel, while it would be great to be able to paint multiple vertex color channels with varying masks for different areas, and blend them using MixRGB nodes.

When I try to do all vertex painting of masks in Blender, I quickly reach a point where more than about half a million polygons slow down the UI too much. Hopefully that will be improved in upcoming Blender 2.8 updates, but regardless of the slowdown, more vertex painting tools are very welcome.

You might want to have a look at the Mask Tools add-on, which offers very nice tools to expand / contract and blur / sharpen masks, which are probably also based on vertex colors.

Thanks!