v0.84 for Blender 2.80+

This is mostly a bug fix release with a couple of new features.

• Add per channel random colour per island tool (requested feature)
• Add object normal <-> color transfer (would be nice to have tangents, but...)
• Move Vertex Color Master from View to its own tab in vertex paint mode.
• Use the active brush when setting and choosing colours instead of defaulting to Draw.
• Fixed redo of gradient operator.
• Fix a weird issue with remap (and can now change affected channels in redo panel).
• Fix grayscale mode primary/secondary colour swap not working properly

Let me know if you have any problems by reporting issues in the GitHub tracker. Feedback can be posted in the Blender Artists thread.

v0.83 for Blender 2.80

This release adds an often requested blur feature. It uses the smooth function from weight paint mode to allow vertex colors to be interactively blurred seamlessly without leaving vertex paint mode.

• Blur Channel Values operator (currently only available in isolate mode)
• The old HSV operator was removed as I'm using the Blender one, which is faster.

Let me know if you have any problems by reporting issues in the GitHub tracker. Feedback can be posted in the Blender Artists thread.

v0.82 for Blender 2.80

This is a minor update containing the following two changes:

• Randomise mesh island colors now works in isolate mode, so can be performed on single channels easily.
• A bug with the channel swapping feature was fixed.

As always, let me know if you find bugs or have feature requests that I can think about adding in the future, and if the addon is useful, please consider contributing a donation by clicking the link below.

v0.81 for Blender 2.80

This release primarily concentrates on the Vertex Color Master UI to improve the workflow when using the add-on. There is a new pie menu (press 'V' to open) giving access to most of the features found in the side panel, and the panel has been given a couple of new functions to make it easier to use.

Fixes and improvements:

• Pie menu ('V' key)
• Grayscale sliders can be used in RGB mode
• Fix switching between draw and blur tools in VCM UI
• Fix background color not being set when switching to isolate mode
• Add some extra built-in vertex color functions to the UI for convenience

I also rewrote the documentation of the addon, so it's now up to date, and moved the 2.80 code to the 'master' branch of this repository. If you would like a 2.79 compatible version of the addon, that has been moved to the 'Blender-2.79' branch, with an actual release available here.

Donations to help me keep working on this add-on are absolutely welcome, but not required. If you'd like to throw some change my way, then you can do so by clicking the link below.

v0.80 For Blender 2.80

This release fixes all the issues that were preventing the addon working properly with Blender 2.80 (with the exception of the inability of Blender itself to render or paint vertex alpha) as well as bringing some minor improvements since the last proper release.

Fixes and Improvements:

• Blender 2.80 beta compatibility
• Gradient tool draws in gradient colors
• Circular gradient tool (thanks for code submission, @RylauChelmi)
• Isolate mode has foreground and background values, similar to regular paint mode
• Minor UI cleanup

Known issues:

• The redo panel for the gradient tool doesn't appear, so the option to select gradient style is not available
• Kinda slow on any kind of dense mesh

I hope people continue to find this addon useful, and if you find any problems with this release, please let me know by submitting an issue or pull request.

v0.8 alpha for Blender 2.80

A while ago I did a quick port to Blender 2.80, but due to a number of issues, didn't polish it to a state where I was happy to release it officially. After a getting a few requests on Blender Artists to fix the addon for 2.80, I realised that there were a few people using it in their workflow, so I should at least create an alpha release so that the addon is easy for people to download and install.

There are a few issues that need fixing, but the fixes should come fairly soon, at which point I will release a new version.

• Gradient tool doesn't work
• There is an issue changing the brush color in isolate mode
• Blender 2.80 supports vertex alpha, but you can't paint with it or see it in the viewport (isolate alpha channel to view or edit). Hopefully this will be fixed in 2.80 before release.

V0.75 - For Blender 2.79

At the time of writing, I am currently in the process of changing Vertex Color Master to work with Blender 2.80. This is the last planned release for the Blender 2.7x series, and it is unlikely the 2.7x version of the addon will be continued any further.

Note that since the official Blender 2.79 release does not include support for vertex alpha, some features of this addon will not work unless you install it with a recent development build from the 2.79 series, which can be downloaded here: https://builder.blender.org/download/