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Vertex Colour Controls

by Squeyed·Workflow

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Why we like it

Vertex Colour Controls earns its place in the superhive library for bringing channel-level RGBA control, cross-project presets and gradient baking into a single Blender panel.

What is Vertex Colour Controls?

Vertex Colour Controls, or VCC, is a Blender add-on built around easier access to precise vertex colour controls and the ability to work on multiple meshes at once. You can assign vertex colour values to single or multiple meshes, choose which RGBA channels the values apply to, and work either with 0-1 strength values or full RGBA colours.

The add-on includes a custom shader, controlled directly through the VCC Panel, that shows individual colour channels in isolation or the RGB elements in the usual way. Channel strength and colour values can be copied from vertices for reuse, and you can save strength and colour values to a preset list that stays independent from Blend files and can be opened from any project.

Colour gradients can be baked onto selected vertices or faces in linear, spherical or normal direction forms, values can be transferred between channels as a two-way swap or a one-way copy, and vertices can be selected based on their vertex colour values. Version 1.4.5 adds the option to work with gamma corrected colour values in Colour mode.

Who is Vertex Colour Controls best for?

Vertex Colour Controls is best for blender artists who apply vertex colour values across multiple meshes at once or work with vertex colour driven shaders.

How much does Vertex Colour Controls cost?

Vertex Colour Controls is completely free to download and use.

Key features

  • Assign vertex colour values to single or multiple meshes at once
  • Choose which RGBA channels receive values, working with 0-1 strength values or full RGBA colours
  • Custom shader to view individual RGBA channels in isolation or the RGB elements in the usual way, controlled through the VCC Panel
  • Save strength and colour values to a preset list that is independent from Blend files and accessible from any project
  • Bake colour gradients onto selected vertices or faces in linear, spherical or normal direction forms
  • Transfer values from one channel to another as a two-way swap or a one-way copy
  • Select vertices based on their vertex colour values

Tags

#Blender#Vertex Colors#RGBA Channels#Presets#Gradient Baking#Mesh Editing#Workflow

Frequently asked questions

Does Vertex Colour Controls work with Blender 4.3?

Vertex Colour Controls received an update for Blender 4.3, where a change to icon IDs meant many of the Blender icons the add-on used needed updated indexes. Rather than risk the same issue again in future, the developer created custom icons for everything in VCC. The same update also stopped errors when a selection included non-mesh objects by removing all non-meshes before an operation runs. For current version support and any newer Blender releases, check the developer's documentation page.

Do Vertex Colour Controls presets carry over between Blend files?

Vertex Colour Controls lets you save strength values and colour values to a preset list, and that list is independent from Blend files, so it can be accessed from any project. You can store either 0-1 strength values or full RGBA colours as presets and reuse them wherever you work. A December 2024 update also fixed some preset functionality, mainly around the retrieval of preset values, along with a bug in the paging system used to browse them.

How does Vertex Colour Controls show individual colour channels?

Vertex Colour Controls includes a custom shader that lets you view individual colour channels (RGBA) in isolation or the RGB elements in the usual way. This shader is controlled directly through the VCC Panel, so channel viewing sits alongside the rest of the add-on's controls. A later update changed the default channel viewer gradient so the alpha channel now runs from 0 to 1. If you use vertex colour driven shaders, this isolated channel view lets you inspect each channel on its own.

Is Vertex Colour Controls free?

Vertex Colour Controls is listed as free here in our catalog, so you can add it to your Blender setup without a purchase through this entry. Licensing terms can change over time, though, so it's worth confirming the current details on the developer's page before you rely on them. That page also links documentation, a tutorial video and a Discord server where you can send questions, feedback or feature requests directly to the developer.

Alternatives to Vertex Colour Controls

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