Vertex color and animations

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Vertex color and animations

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how well is this supported for animations? I'm not sure what support irrlicht has on this, nor do I know how to search for this. I know it's possible to use vertex color, just that.
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You mean color changes in animations? Not sure if there is any format in Irrlicht which supports that. Maybe the .X format could do it, but hard to test as there's hardly any software out there to create those. So I guess... looking bad.
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Re: Vertex color and animations

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CuteAlien wrote: Tue Mar 24, 2026 10:55 pm You mean color changes in animations? Not sure if there is any format in Irrlicht which supports that. Maybe the .X format could do it, but hard to test as there's hardly any software out there to create those. So I guess... looking bad.
Just being able to use vertex color in an animated model is enough for me, although what you said still helps me for other things that I thought about
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Never tried, but from what I can see so far at least for skinned meshes the colors tend to be untouched by the animation. So you could change them same way as with other meshbuffers. Be careful it depends on the material settings if vertex colors are used or ignored.
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Re: Vertex color and animations

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thanks CuteAlien
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