Data channel vertex alpha output

[Anonymous]

Data channel seems to be a really useful tool and I wanted to improve our production pipeline with it. That said, there's drawback. I can't find a way to output to vertex alpha. I can come up with a script workaround and let user output to wherever and than transfer it, but since vertex alpha is regularly used in game industry and adding support for it seems trivial, I think it might be worth doing it.

[millenia3d]

Good idea! Anything to improve & expand the vertex colour tools would be awesome for game art purposes.

[gandhics]

Hm.. Vertex Alpha is map channel -2.

I think DCM Map Channel Output is broken for -1 and -2.

[lightcube]

Until this is supported, you can try using ChannelMod that I wrote to bypass this type of limitation. It lets you send a copy of any channel to any others. So you can use channel 4 in DCM and ChannelMod can send it to -1, -2.