Vertex Painting is painfully slow and pretty much not usable with dense meshes (several 100k polys to millions of polys)

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Hi guys and girls,
Vertex Painting is super slow and laggy even with a smaller amount of polygons (lets say ~100k) - vertex painting a more denser mesh is basically not possible (a brushstroke takes up to 2 seconds or more to apply)

My hardware

i72600k
rx580 8gb
16gb ram ddr3

Is it just me or vertex painting just suuuper slow for everyone (on higher poly meshes)?

edit: I tried ZBrush polypainting (which is the same as blenders vertex painting i guess) and it works like a charm - even with a 5million poly mesh the brushstrokes apply right away. just a pleasure to use.

I wish blender would have such an awesome performance.

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No, but the good news is that a better vertex painting solution and with far better performance is coming…
:point_right: https://developer.blender.org/D5975

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Oh thanks god - i’m looking forward. Thank you TheRedWaxPolice for sharing the information with me. Have a wonderful day. =)

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Yeah, the new sculpt vertex colors looks amazing. Don’t know why it’s taking too long to be merged. :frowning:

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It won’t be in 2.83 right? Is it in the new 2.90 alpha at least?

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Definitely not in 2.83. Also I’m not sure if it will be in 2.90. There are no words/roadmap about it.
If you look at that page, the thing is still tagged 2.82. :upside_down_face:

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Even Sculpt Vcols is super slow when trying to paint 1M mesh when in Material shading (to see the vcols).