Vertex colors to textures and vice versa, Maya

fatihG_

Hey guys, I'm trying to randomize some vertex colours, Tried looking for a script but couldn't find one except for Vertex Chameleon. Right now I don't have the luxury of acquiring new plug-ins and what not, so I was wondering how to do it with just Maya.

I want to bake AO into vertex colours and modulate(multiply)it over my textures. Since I will mostly be using repeating textures I was thinking about adding some variation to the whole thing by randomizing the vertex colours a bit. Now I don't think Maya does this, but I thought it should be possible if I could bake my vertex colours to a texture. Randomize it in Photoshop, (add noise, rainbow cloud and what not) and bake the texture data to vertex colours.

I tried to bake the vertex colours to a texture using the batch bake in Maya, but was unsuccessful.
Some help on how to transfer texture data to vertex and vice versa would be awesome

So again what I like to do:
1. Bake AO to vertex colours. (done)
2. Bake vertex colours to texture
3. Randomize texture by multiplying a noise/clouds filter
4. Transfer texture data back to vertex colours.

Thanks.

warby

its definitely possible
i did that once a while back ... but i cant for the hell of it remember how

Synthesizer

Go to the tool settings for the paint vertex color tool and open the attribute maps tab. There you can import and export textures.

fatihG_

Awesome, thanks Synthesizer! =]

elias leoanrd

Synthesizer said:

Go to the tool settings for the paint vertex color tool and open the attribute maps tab. There you can import and export textures.

You also need to make a colorset by right click and hold on the mesh, go down to color set -> color set editor -> create new color set