Questions tagged [masking]
Questions related to masking. Masking is used for many different things, such as compositing, hiding geometry, etc.
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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 do I copy a sculpt mask from one object to another?
I made a mistake while sculpting by making a mask and sculpting only a quarter of my object, thinking I could mirror the object after to create the whole thing.
But when I mirror the object, there ...
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Using a hand painted mask texture to hide part of the results of a shader node
So I want to have several node textures in one material partially masked in different ways and I was wondering if you could manually paint masks to hide certain parts of a shader node´s results to ...
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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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Slide mask in sculpt mode
I would like to translocate the mask itself that I use in sculpting.
For example, I didn't get the mask quite in the center here:
So I would like to move it the same way you use GG to move vertices ...
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How to mask texture with normal?
On the following screenshot, the black region on the torus is controlled by the normal on the Principled BSDF. Now in Cycles rendering, I want the blue dots to only appear within the black region on ...
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Blender 2.81 and Manuel Bastioni Lab : Mask in sculpt mode not visible
I have created a simple character in Mb-Lab without finalising the character yet.
I wanted to make some adjustments in sculpt mode on the eyelids. Because the eyeball is always transforming together ...
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Alpha threshold for object index layer
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Using cycle mode, I am trying to get a mask image of the rendered object which object index layer.
But when compared with the "composite" layer, "object index" layer does ...
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How to create a masked image using blender python scripting in blender
I am a beginner at blender. I have 5 cylinders present on the field in the shape of a plane, like this one:
I have 100 images in which the cylinder's shape and position are randomized. I want to ...
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Grease Pencil mask masking layers in the the wrong GP object
So I've got a mask in a Grease Pencil object that, besides from affecting the specific layer I've set it up to mask, it also has an effect on layers on other GP objects.....? For the layer in the same ...
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Brush Tool For Mask
Is there a brush tool just like in photoshop to paint white or black for smooth transition instead of using the mask tool, which is line based?
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Clip the area around displacement
Is there a way I can only have the displaced are show without the rest of the plane? I want to take the displaced area and potentially move it onto its on base without the rest of the plane.
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Mask not rendering
I wanted to add blur to the video but it isn't showing when i render it, it just shows the default video.
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How can I change the alpha channel on this mask? I would like to paint makeup on my model seamlessly
How can I make this mask transparent?
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Suddenly i cant put mask on anything
this happens to me suddenly after i try to mask something in this case i was trying to create a bear and i sculped the nose but when it came to the mouth it stopped working
i tried recreating the ...
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blender modifier that makes an object invisible, but also blocks the objects that WOULD HAVE BEEN behind the previous object
Okay, I know that's long winded, but hear me out.
say, I have this circle in 3d:
but behind it there's a star (made the original circle transparent):
is there a modifier that, instead of the ...
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How to create a vignette mask that follows object and always faces camera in shader nodes
I've got a block moving along a treadmill.
Is there any way I can create a circular mask that always faces the camera and sits at the centre of the object?
I've trying to overlay a video on top of ...
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How to make image textures map to generated masks to randomize placement on separate objects? [duplicate]
I found some high quality floor textures, but they are a part of a Mulit Texture pack, so its multiple images of individual floorboards. I'm trying to create a node arrangement that assigns a solid ...
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How to make this mesh 'expand' as an animation
I have the below basic mesh (bear in mind I will eventually like to do this with more complex mesh's).
I'd like to animate it with either (or both) of the following:
The equivalent of animating a ...
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How to Fix Masking for Separate RGB Node
Newbie here, I'm trying to follow a tutorial and encounter below problem.
I am unable to mask properly. If you see the SEPARATE RGB gives a gray output in G for the stem.
Whenever I try to mask the ...
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Face Set Boundary doesn't work with more than one Propogation step - crash if Masking used
I created Face Sets so I could keep the edge of the object I'm sculpting fixed while I changed the interior. This works correctly if either Mesh Boundary or Face Sets Boundary is set to 1 Propogation ...
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Enable disable masks in Sculpt mode
How to disable the paint mask in sculpt mode without removing it (Alt + M). Because in some case i may need it later so i don't have to redraw it again.
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How can I bring Color from a material into geo nodes and use it as a filter?
First time posting here. I've been scratching my head on how to do this for some time now, and I can't seem to figure it out.
I'm looking to create a detailed texture(Solid black and white) in shading ...
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Mask brush in Texture Paint missing stencil
Hi I'm hoping this will be simple, but i couldn't find a thread about this exact issue. I'm just trying to use the 'mask brush' option next to the other brushes in Texture Paint (NOT sculpting) just ...
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Masking objects behind objects on another render layer
I'm using render layers in my scene to seperate multiple objects for compositing, but want to add them back together afterwards.
For that, I need to a way to hide parts of the volumes on layer 2, that ...
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What can I do to blend this PBR material and procedural material better? -- Material test
I'm experiencing a few difficulties with trying to blend a PBR material and a procedural texture in a desired way. Essentially, I'm trying to place mold on an oriented strand board so that it looks ...
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Masking + tracking an object that moves in and out of frame
For privacy reasons I am trying to blur an object that occasionally enters into a video that I am editing.
I used the motion tracking up till the object disappears from the video. I then disable the ...
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3d object into 2d image
Coming from architectural background... what is the process of masking a 3d rendered object and placing it into a 2d image in a cityscape, where some part of the 2d image will be in front of the ...
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I don't have "Mask Slice to New Object" button in Sculpt Mode
I want to separate masked mesh part, I googled that there is suppose to be a button for this, but I don't have it. I'm using Blender 2.81.
I tried to do "Mask Extract", but it works weird, ...
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How to stop the mask brush from painting over the same spot twice while in sculpt mode?
I'm using the mask brush with an alpha texture while in sculpt mode, in this case the Voronoi one, to create a crystalized effect by extruding the mask later with the mesh filter brush, but whenever I ...
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How to create a camera-based shader mask?
I'm looking to create a shader in Eevee where object A inside of object B casts a ray/projection/mask over a set distance towards the camera to mask out its shape in object B. Here's what I've managed ...
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Can I add more different Masks into Adjustment stripe In VideoEditing without them canceling-out each other?
I want to blur cars registrations numbers in a video.They appear and dissapear at different times along the video.I made trackers and masks for each registration number.The trackers are parents for ...
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Radial boolean using Node set up
I want to create a node set up using black and white mask as a radial Boolean way to conceal and reveal object.
I have attached the file, (this method uses builder modifier).
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Texture painting: cavity mask works in the wrong direction
I am following this tutorial: BB- Paint and cycles cavity mask - YouTube.
At 12:05, he paints the object with the cavity mask option turned on, resulting in a nice gradient in the peaks and valleys.
I ...
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Using a Shader Node Mask to Slice Geometry or Create Spline
Is there any way to use my shader nodes procedural mask to slice another plane?
I have a procedural texture that makes different leaves in shader nodes on a plane.
I don't want to have to reimplement ...
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Using the Skytexture while masking with holdout
I want to render a scene with a Sky Texture in the background, while masking out an object A with another object B by using the Holdout option under Visibility > Mask in the properties of object B.
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Clear mask's parent without moving mask
In motion tracking I have footage where a single track isn't enough to track a sign on a wall which should be just hidden and replaced using a mask. So I created a mask, parented it to the first track ...
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How can I make this brush stroke effect procedurally in Blender?
I am trying to recreate the first 4 seconds of this animation with Blender and After Effect. The goal is to use 3D rendering to help me setup the shots and render the halo as an alpha mask, so I can ...
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How do I mask a 3D Object in front of tracked video?
I'm a blender beginner and I have probably a stupid question, but can't find the answer by myself.
I have placed a 3D building in a Google earth Studio City landscape. The camera is making a flyaround ...
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How can I use image texture to mask point instancing in Geometry node?
I have digital elevation terrain with image texture. I want to instance trees on the green channel of texture. I already isolate the Green Channel in photoshop and make it black and white as a mask. ...
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