How to remove a previous vertex paint from a surface?

[mitviz]

i painted a surface and colapsed the vertex paint now i cant seem to add another vertex paint to remove the first one or even edit the first one, any ideas?

[Anonymous]

did the Bucket do anything ?

(and did you click the 2nd icon from left (Vertex Color display - shaded)?)

[mitviz]

not sure i follow but what happens is if i apply a new vertex paint i can paint on the surface but i cant erase the old vertex paint that is already there

[Anonymous]

don't trust the eraser....it is flaky....and worse is you've collapsed your previous Vertex Paint...you can't be sure what erase would give you back.

I suggest instead of erasing, paint over it with black/white...whatever...agree, not ideal but that's life...

(erasing while in the same painting session should be ok, but if you've collapsed, closed, restarted Max....then I would stay way from the eraser)

[mitviz]

yes i tried painting it over with no luck

[lightcube]

The eraser only works on the current vertex paint layer. This means that if you collapsed the paint, the collapsed data cannot be erased--only painted over.

If you cannot paint over it, it might mean that you are not painting onto the same map channel. Another reason to not be able to paint is if you have a set of sub-objects selected in the vertex paint modifier--in which case you can only paint on selected sub-objects. Otherwise, I can't think of a reason for not being able to paint on top of existing vertex colors. You may have a corrupted scene if you can't paint on top.

[mitviz · Accepted solution]

hi, it seems to happen all the time, no sure its currupt, someone sent me a solution on another forum that worked, go to tools-channel info and clear of the one marked 0 for the selected object, that worked how i wanted it to