Vertex painting with overlapping UVs

zombie420

I was just watching the Eat3D tut on vertex painting and didn't catch if he mentioned overlapping UVs or not. I'm laying out my UVs now and am about to try this technique for the first time and am really hoping to cut down on as many mistakes my first go round. When I import the mesh with four overlapping shells, should I expect to see the painting process affect four parts of the model, or does the process handle the mesh in a way that is smarter than me?

AlexLeighton

Overlapping UVs are fine, because vertex colors are stored in each individual vertex, which is why you can do things with them that you couldn't with a mask, such as per instance variation.

zombie420

That is seriously so freaking cool. I'm way excited about this. Thanks