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I was following Blender Guru's tutorial just fine until I started having issues painting the texture of the donut.

I have tried creating a new brush and texture, some fixes about the UV mapping. Nothing works, but I believe the issue is with the UV mapping. Because if I try this, it kind of gets fixed and the texture repeats for every face on the donut.

Any directions? Here is the donut and the texture

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You need to unwrap your donut (go in Edit mode, select all and choose the Smart UV Project mode), then paint in Solid or Material Preview display mode. It looks like in Cycles you can't see a direct result of your painting in Render mode, you need to save your image to see it (needs confirmation).

From what I understand you prefer to paint in the Image Editor rather than in the 3D view, in that case you need to choose another unwrap method, like for example with seams. First you need to select the edges that will be your seams, press U > Mark Seam:

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Then move and rotate the UV in the UV Editor the way you want, you can square it with the UV Squares addon:

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Then paint on the image in the Image Editor window. But note that you'll have to make correct joints where the seams happen, so it may need some corrections in Texture Paint mode in the 3D view.

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  • $\begingroup$ Yes that worked, I can see my painting now. A new problem has unfortunately surfaced, the painting is not appearing in the correct way. Let me show you: filebin.net/2dp2rg9133rslqfj $\endgroup$
    – Bryar
    Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 7:59
  • $\begingroup$ It appears that theres a uv mapping (?) over the image to be painted, and if i rotate that, the painting's direction changes too. But it wont appear correctly no matter how i rotate it and enlarge it. $\endgroup$
    – Bryar
    Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 8:03
  • $\begingroup$ it worked fine for me, maybe recalculate the normals (select all in Edit mode and press Shift N), if it still doesn't work, please share your file again $\endgroup$
    – moonboots
    Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 8:05
  • $\begingroup$ I tried that, ticked Inside but I dont see anything different. Here filebin.net/ko09tkmvu0s17uou $\endgroup$
    – Bryar
    Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 8:30
  • $\begingroup$ it works for me, what do you mean when you say that the painting direction changes? $\endgroup$
    – moonboots
    Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 8:33

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