topic Re: vertex color to texture in 3ds Max Forum

vertex color to texture

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 20:52:51 GMT

Hi. I imported an FBX with vertex color information from unreal to max. I see the vertex color. Is it possible to render out a map (jpeg,etc) with the vertex info? I'm trying to create a blend map sung the vertex color.

cheers,

Luke.

Re: vertex color to texture

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:06:43 GMT

Its been a while, but I'm fairly sure you need to add a Standard material to your object, then assign Vertex Color map type to the diffuse slot. After that you could render it out with Rendering/Render to texture.

Re: vertex color to texture

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 17:26:11 GMT

what are the settings for render to texture?

Re: vertex color to texture

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 23:53:27 GMT

Haven't tried it recently but it should work for you to take your object after you put a vertex color map on it, to assign a new Unwrap UV modifier, select all faces unfold your mapping and have it at map channel 1 (i.e. dont choose vertex color channel in unwrap).

In Render to Texture, you use the existing map channel (ch1) and simply render (Element type) diffuse map type to diffuse output (target map) with standard scanline renderer. (Set renderer in Render Setup dialogue)

*should* hopefully work, let me know.

Re: vertex color to texture

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 13:12:21 GMT

Add this to above post--> when applying vertex color map, set map channel to 0 or you'll get a color gradient when you render..

Re: vertex color to texture

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:05:51 GMT

Thank you so much! I was applying the material with the matching map channel and it always had the gradient. You rule. I hope you have an awesome week!.

Re: vertex color to texture

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:55:37 GMT

No worries, glad I could help