Questions tagged [texture-painting]
Questions about Blenders Texture Painting. Texture painting is a tool used to paint textures on to an object in real time. (both in the 3D view, and the UV Image Editor)
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Why did the texture I painted in texture paint mode disappear?
I was following a tutorial on how to use the Texture Paint feature on blender so I could paint on a terrain I am modeling.
I was successful to paint the whole terrain with beautiful, exuberant ...
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Is there colour picker in texture paint mode?
Is there colour picker in texture paint mode? similar to photoshop or gimp
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Is there a way to paint text onto a texture in Blender?
Recently I have been painting textures in Blender, and I am very satisfied with the results as far as standard painting goes, however I have not been able to find any way to easily add text to a ...
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Stencil Image low resolution [closed]
I am trying to texture paint a mesh using a pretty high resolution stencil image..
But when I try to zoom into the image to paint the details...it appears as if it was very low res...
Is there any way ...
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Can't paint texture
I am new to blender and I could use some help, i watched a lot of tutorials but I still can't paint an object, I click on the object but it doesn't add color. I enter on texture paint and all the ...
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How to fill the selected UV island with colour when texture painting?
I am trying to color parts of the UV map below with the paint function.
My problem is that I don't know how to select the square in the UVeditor so to be able to fill it simply with the desired color ...
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Texture painting on the alpha channel (2.73)
How do I paint on an RGBA texture's alpha channel in Blender 2.73?
I'm not actually using it for transparency, so I would prefer to visualize the alpha channel as a grayscale image while painting, if ...
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How to restrict a part of an object getting painted while texturing in blender
For example if I am painting a plane I only want its certain specified part to be painted. I tried using a box to cover the area which is not to be painted and when i start painting, the whole area ...
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How to fill a mesh with solid color [duplicate]
Given a 3D model, I want to define different regions and fill each region with solid color (to distinguish)
Is there an easy way to do it?
My current solution is to first select faces under edit ...
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How can Particle Objects copy emitter's color texture?
I'd like to make a scientifically accurate animated snake using particle objects (and no, sculpting or bump mapping won't be realistic enough because real scales don't actually shrink and stretch when ...
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How to select faces while using texture painting in 2.8?
I'm texture painting an axe, and there's a certain part of the axe that I want to select.
I only want to select that whole black sharp part, but I can't select anything while texture painting. I'm ...
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Stencil Stamp not showing up
I am trying to use texture stencil, but sometimes the stencil stamp of texture that I want to paint doesn't appear, and I can not find it. Perhaps the position of stencil stamp is elsewhere. How can I ...
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How can I achieve a "hand-drawn" look?
So I watched "Suits" Episode of the Netflix Series "Love, Death & Robots".
I really liked the overall style. Sometimes you see it's low fps so I guess it's almost completely hand-drawn. Anyway, ...
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How to get a square brush in texture paint?
Is it possible in texture painting mode to change the shape of the brush from circle to square? I am using the anchored stroke. As it is, it uses a circle brush and fades the corners of the image ...
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UV image editor, only drawing straight lines
I think that accidentally I pressed some key, and now all I can draw is straight lines in this way.
I'm using a digital tablet, the other texture in this same scene paints correctly.
I don't know what ...
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I want to texture paint but it says "Missing texture, detected!"
After clicking to try and paint, I see the missing texture error warning.
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How do I add a bump map to a texture I made in blender?
This is more of a theoretical question. I was looking around on youtube and saw a video on texture painting and was wondering if I could make it more realistic. I don't want to use the Internet for ...
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It is possible to use painting layers just like in photoshop?
I'm a noob at texturing, and was wondering if is possible to use multiple layers to have better control.
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What are these spots appearing along seams?
When I paint on this texture and save, it kind of resets at the seams and gets these strange parts (didn't happen with another texture):
The .jpg that is saved contains these strange little grainy ...
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How to use Clone Brush in Image Editor?
I can use 3D cursor as reference point, when painting with the clone brush in the 3D viewport. But how can I use the clone brush in the image editor?
I guess I will have to use the 2D cursor as the ...
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How not to lose quality of image with brush
I'm using texture material on the brush and the quality is way worse than I would like.Original
Painted with a brush
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How to lock texture tile size while painting?
I am a new to the blender.
While I was painting texture to the mesh surface, I noticed that if I move camera(view) even a little bit and paint again, the new painted area texture tiles are different ...
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Paint With Image Projection in Texture Paint Mode
I am comfortable painting in texture paint mode with standard brushes and masks, however how can I use an image as the brush color? Some reason I am not finding a succinct answer here on the site.
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Is there a way to save strokes while painting/sculpting?
While painting or sculpting, user draws strokes. Is there a way with python to save those (with brush parameters and pressure data) and then play them back slowly also with python?
Point is to ...
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Texture paint's brush is always black
I've been trying to paint onto a mesh I created, and I was able to paint onto it yesterday with no issues. I had to resculpt some details with dynotopo and redo the UVs so now I'm repainting it, ...
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Create a low poly mesh with high detailed textures?
Could anyone explain how you can create a low poly mesh while the texture details are high? I have been searching for quite a while now and I can't seem to find anything about it.
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Align UV map island with axis or other island
I have following UV map!
Those islands are both same, but one of them is mirrored. I can mirror the one of the parts by selecting UVs -> Mirror -> X Axis (Ctrl-M)
however the hard part is they are ...
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Texturing - how do they make it realistic but specific?
Blender beginner here. I have a question related to texturing, but not how to texture and that kinda stuff. All I want to know is, how do you make the textures? By that I don't mean taking pictures, I ...
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Painting shapes and patterns on the mesh
How to paint various shapes on the object with precision and ability for fast adjustment.
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How to turn off texture painting mode where your brush cursor lags behind your mouse position?
I'm playing around with learning how to paint textures in blender, and must have somehow enabled a strange drawing mode that causes the drawing head of my brush to lag behind the place where I'm ...
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How to hide vertex colors in Texture Paint?
I am currently trying to paint a texture onto a character model. However, I cannot actually see what I am doing because one of the vertex color layers is being overlaid on top of the texture, causing ...
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What is the best workflow for texture painting?
I am a little bit confused about the best workflow for texture painting in blender.
Blender internal has nice ways to do that. Is it possible to paint a color texture in blender internal, use ...
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How do I keep the brush radius consistent while moving the camera
I noticed that when you use the brush tool to paint, sculpt or anything else inside Blender, the brush radius not only depends on the value you give it, but the distance between the camera view and ...
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Certain colors not showing on Cycles Render
I was recently working on a character model, and I encountered a problem while using the Texture Paint mode.
I unwrapped and assigned a texture to every piece of the model, and then went to the ...
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Texture Painting mode: Missing data warning
I try to do a projection painting and I followed a tutorial, but I get a 'Missing Data' warning in the tool shelf:
How do I solve this? This is what I want to achieve (picture of the tutorial):
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Painting one part of my model causes another part to get painted as well
I have a problem here.
When i'm painting the foot of my character, the blur that appears on the foot is, somehow, mirrored on the leg too, and the same thing happens when i try the inverse. I didn't ...
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How can I use clone brush in the UV/Image editor?
I am using a clone brush on a model using CTRL+Left Mouse Button to define origin of the clone brush. Why it doesn't work when I'm doing the same in UV/Image Editor?
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Texture painting on sphere
How do you texture paint on a sphere? I want to paint without it repeating... But I get sharp shards of the color I'm painting with all over the object when I'm not even painting there.
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Draw a perfect circle on texture
I want to draw two perfect circles on a sphere that would function as the sphere's eyes.
When I go to to the Texture Paint and try to draw two circles they are hardly perfect:
How can I draw two ...
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Why is my texture appearing differently in texture mode compared to render display mode?
I have a question. I needed to hide seam marks on my model so I used clone stamp. The problem is that it looks good in every display method (texture/material) except in "rendered" display method. Here ...
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Saving texture painted material externally?
Is there a way to save the texture of a mesh that was painted with the texture painter externally? I'm trying to create a mountain for use in a game and, admittedly, my texturing skills are garbage ...
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How to invert a brush texture?
I want to invert the colors of a texture brush. How can I do that in Blender without using an external program?
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How can I get the fill and mask options?
I have seen other people having more options in the Image paint tool menu,
just like the picture below.
I only have the options draw, soften, smear and clone while he also has fill and mask options.
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Face masking for texture paint in UV / Image Editor
There is "Face selection masking for painting" while in Texture painting in 3D View,
but I want to paint with a texture brush in the UV / Image Editor, so that the texture is not view angle dependent.
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Can I "Paint" on my Objects?
I hate to compare programs, but I am looking for a specific feature in Blender that is used in Maya. When in Maya, you can go to the render menu and use the "3D paint tool" to give color and texture ...
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How to import brush sets?
A couple of tutorials I looked at said you had to turn on the import add on, but they're a little old, and I can't find that option in the add ons section. I'm guessing it's been made into a full ...
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How to hide Stencil in Texture Paint Mode
Is there any way to hide the stencil overlay in the texture paint mode of blender?
It kind of gets irritating when trying to view whats been painted on the view?
Of course I can do it from the tool ...
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Can Project Paint be used with Cycles?
I am having a problem trying to implement texture project paint with Cycles, Blender 2.70.
I go through the process of importing the model (a female head), establishing the seams and unwrapping ...
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Missing Wrap Option in 2.76
Does anyone know where the wrap option in the texture paint settings has gone? It seems to be missing in 2.76. Was it removed from Blender, or has the button been relocated?
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Weird grainy texture in default brush in paint texture mode
I'm using Blender 2.75, I made a model and UV mapped it to a black image, then colored it using texture paint mode brushes without problems as it was mostly solid colors with blurred transitions. ...
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