Does Unity support vertex painting?

JO420

Been looking around and i have not been able to find anything on vertex painted assets in Unity.

Farfarer

There are plugins/scripts that will allow you to do so on the asset store.

At the moment, there's nothing built-in that allows vertex painting.

|MM|

It does support vertex colors though out of the box, but as far as I remember you'd need custom shaders to use it.

gsokol

Yea there is this: http://u3d.as/content/andrew-grant/vertex-painter-shaders/1CF

I've used this. It works, but nowhere near as nice as vertex painting in UDK. Vertex painting with this tool slows down your viewport...larger meshes come screeching to a halt, so good luck using it on a large terrain or anything like that.

Also, it doesn't actually retain the vertex colors on the mesh itself (at least with this tool), but rather it duplicates the mesh and stores it in a "vertexPaintedMeshes" folder.

imperator_dk

I know they did code up some vertex painting at a ninja camp, so i wouldn't be surprised if it goes into unity in next release.

LoTekK

I really need to find some time to finish up the vertex painter I started developing a little while ago. I used Unreal's vertex painting as a baseline for features and interface/feedback, so it should be relatively familiar, with some additional handy stuff like quick primary/secondary color selection, zbrush/silo-style mouse dragging for brush strength/radius. Need to solve one or two issues with the input handling, though.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqcCAKr8fFY"]Vertex Painter Tool for Unity3D - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erwappTSnRc"]Unity Vertex Painter pie menu first pass - YouTube[/ame]

bugo

LoTekK, that is great, would u mind sharing that with us?

LoTekK

I'll see if I can clean it up a bit more, and I'll look into maybe dropping an alpha release here while I iron out some other issues.

Zoltan Erdokovy

Indeed it looks very promising so I was wondering if you have any news on this project.

Ged

yeah that would be cool lotekk. Ive think the main problem with vertex painting in unity is that when you change the models in any way that edits verts then you loose all your vertex painting? Sometimes you need to edit models quite a bit during production and redoing your vertex painting again and again could be frustrating, I wish I could just do it all in my modelling app(3dsmax or c4d) and or somehow retain the info in unity.

ScribbleHead

Sorry for picking this up again, but any news on that vertex painter LoTekK? The simple vertex tool doesnt work on unity 3.5 and 4.0, and the one gsokol mentioned is just pure awful!

AlecMoody

I would also get a lot of use out of this. Lotekk, any updates?