[FEATURE REQUEST] B&W and RGBA vertex paining on ASE meshes in 3D view

[motorsep]

Would it be a hell of a task to implement vertex paining tool that would allow good ol' black and white vertex paining in 3D view on ASE meshes and also RGBA (using RGBA channels) vertex painting?

[klaussilveira]

Is this for terrain blending? The biggest problem is the relationship between the map and the ase. If I vertex paint on the terrain mesh terrain.ase used in a.map, does it also affect the terrain.ase used in b.map, or does it make a local copy of the ASE specifically for that map?

[motorsep]

Is this for terrain blending? The biggest problem is the relationship between the map and the ase. If I vertex paint on the terrain mesh terrain.ase used in a.map, does it also affect the terrain.ase used in b.map, or does it make a local copy of the ASE specifically for that map?

Yep, it's for terrain blending.
Well, it depends.. You could just overwrite existing ASE file. Terrain is going to be the same in any map. Even if I painted vertex colors in Blender, it would still be the same ASE on all maps.
It could be also an option - when finished painting colors in Hellforge and do final "Apply colors" or something like that, have an options whether to save a copy of ASE (and change reference in func_static to the copy) or overwrite existing ASE.

[motorsep]

So, ASE doesn't support Alpha and it's a pain to get alpha painted in Blender anyway. So I did RGB + White experiment and it works great.