[Bf-funboard] Painting

[Kent Mein]

In reply to J L (aligorith at hotmail.com):

> Hi,
> 
> Does Blender currently have let users apply colours + textures (not just 
> image mapping) to a mesh in realtime? By this I mean like painting a 
> physical object with a paintbrush; giving it blue in places, red in others, 
> etc. Texture painting seems to do another job and vertex colours don't 
> affect the rendered result. Apart from adding extra vertices to allow for 
> inidividual texturing of faces, and creating a UV map elsewhere, are there 
> any other ways?
> 
> Aligorith

You need to click the Vcol Light or Vcol Paint buttons in the Materials panel
for vertex colours t oaffect the rendered result.

Kent
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