Introduction

Vertex Colors Plus is a tool for easily applying Vertex Color to your mesh without needing to use the built-in painting tools.

Features

• An "Active Color" system with many core advantages over the basic color swatch
  • Live Tweak option for changing colors live on your mesh while in the color swatch
  • Smooth/Hard vertex color application interpolation for more precise control
  • A second color swatch that can be used to quickly switch between colors on the fly
  • Get new Active Color based on selected vertices
• A full featured Palette Outliner for viewing and managing all vertex colors on your Active Object
  • Apply outliner VColor to selected geometry
  • Set outliner VColor as Active Color
  • Select all geometry that use the corresponding outliner vertex color
  • Delete outliner VColor from entire object
  • Convert outliner VColor to VGroup for manipulation with things like modifiers
  • HSV/RGB values preview switch
• Many alternative methods of applying vertex color
  • Apply with value or alpha variation
  • Apply only RGB or A channel(s)
  • Apply to Inner/Outer Selection Border
• Generate random vertex color
  • Per UV Shell
  • Per UV Border
  • Per Face
  • Per Vertex
  • Per Point (Face Corner)
  • Extended Dirty Vertex Colors
• A large customizable color palette with any color
  • Includes a preset import/exporter for generating & managing color palettes on the fly (useful for teams)
  • Ability to apply each color to the Active Color or to just fill the current selection
• Compatibility with the vertex painting workflows
• Integration with Vertex Paint Mode for uninterrupted workflow
• Integration with Daniel Bystedt's Bake to Vertex Color add-on.
• Several keymaps and a custom pie menu
• ...and more!

TODO / Future Update Paths

• Multiple vertex color to vertex group methods
  • Vertex color to single vertex group
  • Vertex color to R G B A separated vertex groups
  • Batch options for either listed above
• Convert vertex group to vertex color
• Import/export palette presets to/from a custom format

Known Issues

Most known issues are with the undo stack and palette outliner. These 2 things were... Difficult to fully control. I wish to someday know more about these features to provide better solutions to these problems:

• If you match a color in the palette outliner to another color while "live tweaking" it will merge the colors. This also happens if the color value is pure white.
  • SOLUTION: Avoid dragging the color swatch around arbitrarily, preferring the input fields to change colors from within the Palette Outliner.
• The Palette Outliner will desync if you undo in Edit Mode, but is not the case in other Context Modes.
  • SOLUTION: The Manual Refresh Palette button fixes this, as well as using any operators that cues a resync of the outliner.
• Sometimes the mesh goes pure black after an undo. This doesn't seem to happen after working on a mesh for a while.
  • SOLUTION: This is a visual bug only, your mesh isn't actually colored black. Adding another color or playing with UI elements fixes this.