[Bf-funboard] Painting

[Daniel Fairhead]

> > 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.

There is also the UV-paint tool... I don't really know anything about it, and have
only played with it a few times (ages ago). check the documentation about it, or
look for tutorials.

Dan