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Is it possible to paint only on selected vertices in vertex paint?
Face selection masking is available in the 3D header when in 'Vertex Paint' mode:
Because this works on faces you will only be able to paint vertices that make up a face, individual vertices or edges ...
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Dilate/expand vertex color mask?
This cannot be done in shader nodes, because to Dilate (paint) a point on surface one must know the color of surrounding area of that point. The node that samples Vertex Color does not allow for ...
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Is it possible to paint only on selected vertices in vertex paint?
One way you can do this is with the mask modifier:
Add a vertex group of the vertices you want to paint on (or the area you don't want to paint on, whichever is easier)
Add a mask modifier and toggle ...
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Creating knob/dial with indicator strip
This one is driven by the knob rotation, so you animate the knob and the lights are good.
Let's assume you are looking at your knob from top view.
For convenience, you model a led and you parent led ...
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Creating knob/dial with indicator strip
Here is a solution to light up the individual LED's one at a time without any type of unwanted gradient effect.
The basis of the effect is based on 36 equally spaced LED rectangles created by ...
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Object material that is completely transparent, but occludes other objects
I think what you want is a holdout shader. A holdout shader is like a transparent emission shader: wherever it is, it writes transparency (alpha 0). It still gets occluded itself.
With the use of a ...
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Invisible object that hides other objects (as a mask)
One way this can be done, is using the render layers mask layers. While this may not be as simple as Denis's answer, it's always good to know more than one way to do something, and it can be a bit ...
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Button or menu entry to clear the sculpting mask?
AFAIK there is no proper button, the way to clear the mask without a keyboard shortcut is the menu entry Hide/Mask>Clear Mask.
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Material Editor: Generate mask from color ID texture
Two independent node groups for creating a mask based on a color and a texture :
material setup :
the first node group outputs boolean 1/0 ( all comparisions are "less than "):
the second node ...
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video editing: add mask has no menu
The first thing that you have to do is create a mask.
There are two places where you can do this:
In the Image Editor.
Or it can be created on the Movie Clip Editor
Go to the Motion Tracking ...
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Use masks as part of materials in cycles
No, the MCE or UV/Image editor's masks will not translate upwards to the 3D view.
They occur in the post phase of Blenders sequence of operations. Also I am told that its to hard to make a ...
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How to utilize material (or object) index behind a refractive material in cycle?
I don't think it's possible to utilize material (or object) index behind a refractive material as it is.
Blender is correctly showing the mask of the object that form the camera point of view truly ...
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How to utilize material (or object) index behind a refractive material in cycle?
Similar to @Carlo's answer you can set this up within a single blendfile (and within the same scene) by making use of the Render Layers 'material override' setting. Set up each object with a pass ...
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How to put a mask into 3d space
Load the background image in the image editor
Set the editor in mask mode
On on the image click while pressing the Ctrl key and draw a mask for the area you want to use as foreground.
Then in the ...
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Masking selected vertices for sculpting
Yes, there is a way to do this. I'm using 2.93. First, select the vertices that you want to mask in edit mode. You can make them into a vertex group if you want to save the selection.
Go into sculpt ...
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How to animate a mask with interval steps and not consecutive flow animation
At last, a use for the Build modifier?
Create a fan-filled circle-mask with the same number of segments as you have LEDs, rotate in Z to the desired start-point. Give it a Build modifier, set to the ...
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Apply mask/material by angle of an face
You could take the dot-product of the normal of the surface with the unit Z vector, as a measure of the angle with Z.
It's cos(the angle with Z), if you want to <...
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How to use an object to mask out other objects in 3.0?
Several options here:
Check holdout option in object settings:
Use a holdout shader:
Turn on holdout toddles in outliner:
and enable it for specific collections:
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Transparency with a mask
You can use the Set Alpha node found in : Add➝Converter➝Set Alpha use the mask node output as an Alpha input for the Set Alpha node :
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Cycles alpha mask hole
Those are correlated alphas.
That basically means that you're not putting layer B over Layer A, but putting layer B in a hole poked in Layer A.
The regular alpha over operation, however, will work ...
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Cycles alpha mask hole
There are a couple issues. My first question is why are you using two scenes? That will really complicate things. In this answer I have only addressed one as you can copy that information to the ...
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How do I "mask" out certain areas of a photo?
Blender's compositor can be used to mix together video and still images. The render output of a 3d scene doesn't have to be used in the compositor, any image or video can be input and placed on top of ...
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Dilate/expand vertex color mask?
Edit: does not work in 2.8
I propose another approach which is not vertex colors based, mainly because vertex colors influence is limited by the inner geometry of the mesh.
Instead, we can use some ...
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Sequential channeling in Node Editor (no PBR workflow)
You can use "texture coordinate" input node and a "color ramp".
The X output is between 0 and 1. So if we split the color ramp in three constant steps at 0, 0.3333 and 0.6666 we'll ...
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Sequential channeling in Node Editor (no PBR workflow)
I couldn't help noticing an unsightly wipe in @lemon's answer, so here's a variation on it that switches.
..I'm sure this is what he meant ..
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how to get a mask that only contains the inside of a bowl
True normal channel
Given a similar face distribution, you can spot a difference between the normal of the faces on the concave side and the ones on the convex side.
Just sort them with a math node:
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