QUICK TIPS | Sculpt Vertex Painting Tutorial (New Blender 2.9 Feature)

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This week on POLYCOSM we look into the new "Sculpt Vertex Painting" feature added in Blender 2.9 Alpha. I demonstrate the difference between the old mode and the new and improved feature, what Vertex Painting is useful for, and how to paint b&w masks to feed into the different shader-inputs such as roughness, metallic, alpha, etc.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro/Video Summary
1:41 How To Get This New Feature
2:11 Vertex Colors Viewport/Shader Settings
2:54 Paint Detail Level Difference In Old VS New
4:06 Old Vertex Painting VS New Sculpt Vertex Painting
5:29 New Color Filter/Mask By Colors Feature
6:39 How Blender Stores Vertex Painting Layers
7:09 Material Not Showing in Rendered View?
8:36 Creating A Paint Layer Copy
8:49 Erasing All Paint/Painting B&W Masks
9:37 Transferring Sculpt Vertex Paint To Normal Vertex Paint
10:23 Inverting Masks
10:58 Using Masks For Alpha Input
11:31 Mirror Table Demonstration
15:10 Avoiding Bugs, Crashes, etc./Temporary Workarounds
15:49 Final Words

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro/Video Summary
1:41 How To Get This New Feature
2:11 Vertex Colors Viewport/Shader Settings
2:54 Paint Detail Level Difference In Old VS New
4:06 Old Vertex Painting VS New Sculpt Vertex Painting
5:29 New Color Filter/Mask By Colors Feature
6:39 How Blender Stores Vertex Painting Layers
7:09 Material Not Showing in Rendered View?
8:36 Creating A Paint Layer Copy
8:49 Erasing All Paint/Painting B&W Masks
9:37 Transferring Sculpt Vertex Paint To Normal Vertex Paint
10:23 Inverting Masks
10:58 Using Masks For Alpha Input
11:31 Mirror Table Demonstration
15:10 Avoiding Bugs, Crashes, etc./Temporary Workarounds
15:49 Final Words

[tsentenari]

Wow you're explaining this so well, I don't think this can be done any better. What a great, super helpful tutorial.

[TimTylor]

Trying this out in Blender 3.2.0 Alpha, and happy to report it now has color palettes. :)

[activemotionpictures]

Thank you for sharing this. Very inspiring, specially how you explain with details and key press. Perfect!

[eriksart]

Great video, thanks a lot. I recently painted with the old vertex color mode and it was so slow. By the way I have a tip for picking the right color. Switch the shading of the viewport to flat and you can see and pick the right color.

[phalhappy]

you can make color palette as jpg in gimp or krita and color pick in blender using image editor window. I find Blender kinda buggy when I close and reopen the file I am working that it doest save the palette I created sometimes, so I always use this technique to avoid making color palette in Blender. (Extra tip) and I go to File > External data> Check automatically pack into .blend so it will pack what ever image I open in Blender.

[johantri]

I just realize that the vertex color has not supported in multires or subdivision modifier yet. Scratching my head for two hours for why the brush stroke was not showing LOL

[poncejuansamuel]

Me puede servir como tips, Gracias flaca un abrazo!

[mMemoli]

Has this vertex sculpt paint being disabled in the 2.90 release?
I can't find it anywhere in the experimental tab.
I only get "Undo Legacy" and "Cycles Debug" as options

[ForgorenWolf]

How do you sculpt with the texture colors still on

[mr]

great vid but when i open up 2.9, the sculpt vertex paint brush is not there

[papabudyn]

cant find "enable experimental features" sculpt mode is same and i cannot paint in that mode.
Still dont understand how to enable it.

[phoenician]

Is this available in 2.92? It doesn't appear in my sculpt menu buttons and it doesn't appear in the Experimental part of the Preferences window either.

[MrReactric]

hi, can we export this painted model as a fbx ? I mean how can I convert the vertex paint to a texture ? is it possible

[violinfans]

I download Blender 2.92. I went to «Interface» in Blender Preferences, check «Developer Extras» under Display. The «Experimental» tab pop on the left.
However, under this Experimental tab only appear "Debugging Tab" (with Undo Legacy and Cycle Debug) and I don't see any option to choose
New Feature and Sculpt Vertex Color.

Any advice ?


To clarify, In the Sculpt Tool I don't see any Vertex Paint Tool as well.

Thank you in advance,
Adam

[HarryJc]

Me encanta como explicas las cosas. 🥳 👌🏻

[johnstainton]

Cant find a paint brush in 2.93 or v3, it just isn't there in the space where your brushes sit - any idea why? reset to factory defaults downloaded blender to a different machine ... and still no visible brush in the menu which is fully scrolled down hmmm

[TalhaRiaz]

Can you help how can I Enable this in blender 2.93

[dallah]

couldn't find this amazing feature in the official release😞

[xamogxusx]

does not work on latest alpha build :( I did all of the enabling in settings, but I see no new brushes! I do get "Sculpt Vertex Painting" on the right menu though...