Vertex Paint/Vertex Colors?

sbiswas

What is Vertex Painting / Vertex Coloring? Which software supports them? Oh, I also need to know how to do this? (Picture below)





I saw that the bending thing (dont even know what this is called exactly)
is possible In 3DS Max. I know it is possible in game engines too. How about Maya?

ZacD

Vertex painting is really common in game engines, WoW, Unreal Engine 3 and 4, Unity, Cry Engine, pretty much every game I can think of uses it to some extent.

I don't know if it's possible to do with a real time viewport shader in 3ds max, but it's definitely possible to use it with offline renderers.

Vertex painting is assigning a RBGA value to a vertex and using that as a mask to blend 2-5 (or more) different textures, there's tons of tutorials on how to use it with Unity, UDK, and UE4. Are you comfortable with a particular game engine? Pretty much everyone should support it.

sbiswas

ZacD wrote: »

Vertex painting is really common in game engines, WoW, Unreal Engine 3 and 4, Unity, Cry Engine, pretty much every game I can think of uses it to some extent.

I don't know if it's possible to do with a real time viewport shader in 3ds max, but it's definitely possible to use it with offline renderers.

Vertex painting is assigning a RBGA value to a vertex and using that as a mask to blend 2-5 (or more) different textures, there's tons of tutorials on how to use it with Unity, UDK, and UE4. Are you comfortable with a particular game engine? Pretty much everyone should support it.

Could you point me to any tutorials preferably for UE4 or CRYENGINE? Thanks!

ZacD

It really depends on what game engine you want to use, but here's some examples of it action.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V6bit8PrZo"]Advanced Vertex Blending Material - UDK - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdWrWfL5E4c"][UDK] Flowing Lava Vertex Blending Material - YouTube[/ame]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJyD0j6We8

Here's a basic example of a material in UE3

http://carlkdesign.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/vertex-painting-part-2.png

Here's some UE4 guides

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/UI/LevelEditor/Modes/MeshPaintMode/VertexColor/index.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/UI/LevelEditor/Modes/MeshPaintMode/VertexColor/MaterialSetup/Color/index.html

sbiswas

Thanks for links dude! I am totally super new to UE4! Tell me something (I might sound totally retarded here, bear with me ), Are those UE4 tutorials by the UE4 team really good?

Tutorials link here: here

ZacD

Yeah those tutorials are a great starting point.

sbiswas

@ZacD Thanks!

sbiswas

@ZacD are you absolutely sure that Vertex Paint/Vertex Coloring is not possible in Maya or 3DS MAX? This question is for everybody! Thanks!

Shadownami92

I believe it's possible in both Maya and 3ds max. I had a cg shader in Maya 8 way back when that used vertex color and it should be possible anyways using the ShaderFX plugin if someone didn't already make a special shader for it already.

sbiswas

Shadownami92 wrote: »

I believe it's possible in both Maya and 3ds max. I had a cg shader in Maya 8 way back when that used vertex color and it should be possible anyways using the ShaderFX plugin if someone didn't already make a special shader for it already.

Can you point me to some tutorials on how to do it in Maya please? Thanks!

Shadownami92

Here is the first thing I could find with a quick google search. http://www.crydev.net/viewtopic.php?f=315&t=98395

and here http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1672714