Questions tagged [masking]
Questions related to masking. Masking is used for many different things, such as compositing, hiding geometry, etc.
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How to smooth a mask in blender
my aim is to make a chameleon car paint. I achieved it, but I got a problem. Mask that I use to add another color to my paint is looking pretty nice and in EEVEE paint looks awesome, but in CYCLES ...
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Automasking-like bug when sculpting?
I started diving into sculpting in Blender, and everything was feeling pretty good. Started getting used to the hotkeys and the general feel. I then took a break and left my computer with Blender ...
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Help with Mask brush Settings 4.2
I cannot figure out why my mask brush is jittery. To my knowledge, I've checked/unchecked all options that might be causing this problem, to no avail. How do I reset the brush to a smooth stroke, with ...
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Help Needed: Baking Hair Dynamics Crashes Blender - Seeking Solutions for Animation Workflow
I'm working on an animation project using CLO3D, Blender, and Unreal Engine, but I've encountered an issue with Blender freezing when I try to bake hair dynamics for fur.
Workflow:
1.CLO3D: Animate ...
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Expand Selection Mask in Geometry Nodes
I'm trying to create a mask that will give me random rectangles (not squares) on a surface that I can adjust the size of and I'm have a really hard time making a mask for it.
This is what I'm trying ...
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Creating a mask for a specific node inside a Geometry Node system
I'm trying to make a very basic Geometry Node setup, and need some randomisation in the rotation.
Though, i only need the randomized rotation in a specific area, while keeping the rest straight
I ...
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Render Layer Mask Best Practise
I have an already rendered scene that I would like to put a fog overlay onto in compositing. The scene already has volumetrics, so I am compositing:
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Fog overlay
The fog overlay ...
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remove reflection of some selected objects
I have a ground/floor object with reflective material. We can see all the reflection including the reflection of the environment map.
I want to mask out or exclude the env map dan the green donut ...
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How to install the HCL or LCh Color Space for Blender's Compositor (for use in the Separate and Combine Color nodes)
I am working on a project within Blender that involves colouring black and white videos, and part of it involves using the "Separate" and "Combine" color nodes to overlay the color ...
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Mask the Blur effect in compositor
This is my render layer ( 1920 x 1080) :
I draw a mask in image editor :
In compositor I add a blur node and try mask the blur effect :
composite result (nothing changed) :
The mask doesn't work ...
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mask/roto the part of the texture inside the shader editor
I draw a mask in the image editor. How can I use this custom mask inside the shader editor ? I want to mask out some part of the image texture using mask/roto directly - without have to render the ...
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How to update the selecting state of the Mask Points in Image Editor and Movieclip Editor with Python?
I'm writing a new add-on for the masking. I tried hard to find how to update/redraw the Image Editor or Movieclip Editor, but I didn't find helpful information. I share my test code below. If you try ...
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how to have surface deform ignore masks on character mesh?
I have linked character libraries that include a complete character mesh in addition to optional wardrobe outfits that use Surface Deform -- instead of armature parenting -- that give less distortion (...
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In PaintWeight, Is it possible to select multiple bones while Vertex Selection Mode is ON?
I do not intend to use Mask Modifier because I have a hair mesh that contains 5-10 layers on top of each other and I would rather work with two mesh surfaces that are stacked visibly in edit/Weight ...
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How can I use one object to mask another object?
I have a boat, on a plane of water.
The plane of water goes partially up the side of the boat (the inside of the boat has no water, due to a Boolean modifier).
I want to erase the entire plane of ...
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Cutting dynamic holes into objects with an animated object
What I'm trying to do is making parts of a house transparent to see inside. However, simply deleting the geometry for every "window" i want to make is not viable. The transparent area should ...
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Tracking mask is not working with Blender's compositor
I have tracked an object in Blender with a marker in some footage, then created a mask for that object and parented the mask to the marker. This works great in the Movie Clip Editor: the marker ...
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Edge Gap in Shadow Catcher Material Masking Blender Eevee
so I'm trying to render an object with shadow, since eevee doesnt have shadow catcher, (blender 36.2) I use "material shadow catcher", then separate the render in two layer (the object & ...
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Extracted Game Model - Many Mask Textures
[Reference Question] SMITE model materials nodes
I am wondering about extracting SMITE models using Umodel. I am able to extract the models and apply the diffuse textures and some others that are ...
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Convert specific faces on planar mesh to image mask
Suppose I have a planar mesh like the following screenshot, with 4 faces (and face indices sloppily drawn on):
Is there a way to turn this mesh into an image texture, to use as a material mask? If so,...
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Making a Cinemagraph in Blender 4
I'm completely new to Blender and I'd like to make a cinemagraph from a video in Blender 4.1. I've found a few tutorials (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RY6ZPt42b8) but none for Blender 4. I've ...
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How to add reflections like glass on transparent image?
I imported some image (png which have already transparency aplied) in blender as a plane (a rectangle with 2 transparent stripes in the middle and 3 black stripes) in shading and other modes it ...
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How to combine two render node outputs into one composite, side by side? (Sum, mask, ramp?)
I am attempting to make a video output from Blender which has the (1) video natural to the left side, and (2) a black and white alpha mask on the right side, kind of like this but L/R instead of top/...
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How to hide object without his geo-node attributes
I have some issues with ray visibility. I added growing grass geo-nodes to the Cube, and want to hide cube with shadow catcher mask. But by that grass is also hides. So how can i hide the cube without ...
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Can I convert color attribute to mask?
Good day. I need to adapt blender material to UE5, but this engine doesn't support color attributes, so I need to replace it with texture mask. Can I convert these color attributes to masks? Blender's ...
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Parent mask to plane track using clip with vertical aspect ratio
Using Blender 4.0 (and also the beta 4.1), I can make four tracks on a clip, make a plane track from those tracks, and then make a mask parented to that plane track which deforms exactly alongside the ...
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How do I go about making a opacity mask for the borders of the planar mesh?
I want to make a procedural black and white mask/matte for planar objects' boundaries to use as a texture blending component.
Something like this, but I did this in Photoshop, and obviously I want to ...
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How to treat a group of vertices as one in Sculpt mode?
I am very new to Blender, and very much learning.
As of right now, to get a feel for how Blender works, I just use premade models, that I try to edit (the base figure from DAZ Studio, namely).
I have ...
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How to select geometry and remove it with slope mask?
Program: Blender 2.9.2-4.0
Geometry and mask created in Gaea
I'm facing a problem, I don't understand how I can select vertices for further deletion, ONLY those in the white area?
My goal, by any ...
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Compositing: Mask layer opacity keyframes are not saved
I am working with the node-based compositor in Blender 4.0.2.
I have a mask. The mask consists of several layers, animated to follow action in the clip. As the mask layers pass the subject, I set a ...
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Is it possible to make mesh with dissolve shader not mask geometry behind it?
I have a dissolve shader in one of my projects, but I have a problem that when the mesh turns invisible from the shader effect, the mesh still mask some geometry behind it. Is it possible to make it ...
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Adding a Mask modifier to any mesh is causing it to instantly disappear, no matter the settings
I tried this in Blender 4.0 and 3.4 and started new projects and the issue shows up in both. It didn't happen for a couple of spheres for some reason and it doesn't happen to duplicates when I ...
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How to determine if a tracking marker is inside a mask?
How can I determine whether a camera tracking marker is inside or outside a mask that I have created in Blender using Python? For instance, if I create a mask in Blender's masking area for a specific ...
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What are clearcoat and ao masks? How do I use them?
I have got some clearcoat and ao mask files for a 3d model. What are those and how do i use them?
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How to reveal unmask a series of object using animation keyframes or nodes
I have a set of traffic lights, Which I'm using a Boolean method to unmask/Reveal as I move my Boolean mask up and down the Z axis. I have also keyframed my Boolean so each traffic light gets ...
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Tried rotoscoping, Did it for 13 hours and the mask is scrambled on all frames
I have been trying to mask. this is my first time masking in blender. I have set the mask to outline the chair and any movement.
I have made two masks but the mask in the video is mask 001 i didnt ...
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Is it possible to do clipping/mask in blender similar to clipping in drawing programs?
In, for example, Photoshop, you can make a certain layer be visible only where there is a selected mask layer underneath it.
I'm trying to style my 3D model in Blender for 2D. How can you achieve the ...
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Is it possible to "apply" a grease pencil mask?
I would like to commit the changes made by a grease pencil mask to the affected grease pencil layer. The reason this is important is that I have a mask that is getting skewed by an armature animation, ...
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Convert Position to Selection (Boolean) in Geometry Nodes
I wonder how I can convert the position output of geometry proximity node into boolean value in order to connect it to the selection input of the instance on points node. Basically I want to use the ...
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What is happening with my sculpt tools/viewport?
I have just finished sculpting the body of my model and moved on to do the hands separately. I joined the objects, remeshed, and checked the normals of the final object. I have cleared masks and ...
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Need help converting a distance value to a decimal value between 0 and 1
I have an object (a rollaway shutter panel) that I have set up with the Mask node and a linear gradient.
I have another object (the shutter handle) that I want to use to control the Mask threshold ...
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Does masking vertices help render faster?
So, I typically mask vertices that are not visible when rendered, for example, in a character, the skin under the clothes. Does that help render faster or it doesn't make a difference?
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Grease Pencil Masks - Partial Transparency
I'm attempting to recreate this mask transparency effect I did in Procreate where it's not a perfect mask, and you can still somewhat see the masked object through the mask (pictured below).
Notice ...
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How can I mask a Hair Modifier using a texture image? Vertex groups not working with hair
I'm relatively new to blender. I've found countless videos showing how to weight paint a vertex group or how to create one selecting the vertices and then use the group in the Factor value of many of ...
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Shader map along normals inside cycles from center to the periphery of an object
Hello Blender Community,
I have an object that consists of a simple sphere with geo nodes based tentacles applied to it. I want to create a mask with a color ramp that alters the color beginning from ...
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How do I delete Mask data blocks in Masking tab
Blender noob coming from Houdini.
How do I delete these mask data blocks in the masking tab? They seem to keep getting created but I have no idea how to delete or clean them up.
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Object masking/ dynamic hiding in render is not exporting to .glb
I'm new to GLB export. I am using a series of models generated in a structure deformation calculation code as .ply files, that I import in my scene. Each model represents the studied structure at a ...
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Is there a way to tie points in a mask to a subject that varies across moving frames?
I am trying to create a mask over a moving subject in a video, and I would like to know if there is a method to modify the various points of it more precisely than moving them individually frame by ...
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How do I assign different material zones, based on this black & white map?
Please excuse me if I get terminology wrong here; I'm still learning. I have a mesh that is a humanoid figure with metallic clothing. When I channel-unpacked one of the included textures, I found ...
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How to create an silhouette/outline mask
How would you go about creating a mask ONLY of the silhouette/outline of your mesh?
I want to use it to fade the outline of the mesh into transparency but using popular methods like the fresnel into a ...
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