Sculpting Details with MASKS
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this video I talk about how you can use masks effectively and easily for sculpting intricate details like runes on my axe model.
Thanks to all those that commented on the previous video and gave me some better ideas.
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This technique is amazing, I wasnt overly happy with how my runes came out using the clay strips tool. Shame I didnt save an archive of my axe head just before starting the run sculpting but I guess I'll just have to make another sculpted axe after this to try it out!
You truly do make some of the best modelling tutorials on RUclips, the blender community is in your debt!
same here, but next time I know better c:
YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFE WITH THE Mask FEATURE. Thank you :)
Wow that looks so much better. That is a really cool technique that I have never seen before. I have seen people use masks to adjust sculpts with the grab brush but I have never seen it be used to draw intricate detail. That is genius.
yes, i agree with you)) it looks really very well)
I’ve been googling how to erase part of the mask, but all I could find was “how to clear the entire mask”. Your video had the answer I was looking for. You just hold down ctrl while painting the mask. Thank you so much, that was driving me nuts lol
The best blender tutorial series which covers everything that I've ever watched on YT, thanks !
Oh man great tutorial! I learned maybe the most important lesson....back up and save work at different stages. I was following along 1for 1 till I got here and thought I'd redo the axe blade and completely messed it up beyond repair ugggg
You are really amazing. These tutorials are clearly the best on the internet. Even the paid ones are not close enough. Thank you sir!
Thank you for always putting in the effort! Quick tip; I got better results when not extruding into the Z-axis - that way the extrusion stays flat and doesn’t ‘bloat’ up in all directions.
It’s so exiting to see this axe getting cooler and cooler every video!
It would be really awesome if you added a bit of emissions on the runes 😸
this was genuinely super helpful mate a real life saver when it comes to doing engravings on weapons this was a great tutorial
Thank you for all your videos. I just bought your Character Course in appreciation. Cannot wait!
Thanks👍🙂
This method looks neater than the previous one. I didn’t succeed in the previous method, I didn’t like the result. Thank you very much for this series of tutorials. Very informative
Ah, thank you, just the video I needed. Super concise!
This is truly amazing i had to make shapes in verts to make details....
Thanks grant youre amazing.
There is always something new I get to learn after watching your video. Thank a lot.
Gotta say your vids are truly encouraging and motivating to keep me at learning blender
This is exactly what I'm looking for on my current project! And you mentioning Face sets, I may have a solution from what I know. Especially considering you can smooth the edges of face sets, you can go to Options on the Mesh Filter and enable Auto Masking: Face Sets. Then in the remesh settings, enable Preserve: Face Sets. That will make it so the Face Sets are a mask, and remeshing it doesn't clear the face sets you have. I just joined you discord yesterday, and am excited to participate in your next challenge! Keep up the great content! AND THANK YOU!!!
Just tested that out, and doesn't quite work since it's everything else but the face sets you want masked. But in testing, I did notice you can also 'Preserve' the mask in the remeshing options. So that looks like the better way to still go. For the indent cuts, you could also alternatively turn the face sets into meshes and then cut into the mesh with the Boolean tool. Thank you again good sir for this tutorial!
Thank you clear and simple tutorial.
Thanks for this, Grant! I used to think these kinds of designs were mostly achieved using the knife tool. I hope we can get to see you do this again but using an existing image file for the mask (as a stencil perhaps; I'm not sure if this is possible). I would love to draw my rune designs on 2D and "kitbash them it in". Great and concise content as always. 😊
I tried this technique by creating a new mash brush with a strictly black and white image, same as creating a new draw brush with a texture. As I recall, didn’t go to well though so it was a little disappointing. You can draw in pictures obviously by creating a new texture brush etc. but the results are not as fine as drawing with the mask tool as Grant has done here.
@@Hitsujioyaji thanks for the insight! 😊
great tutorial, your content is so clear.
Awesome technique but set mask falloff to smoother, sharpen the mask, and then you will have super smooth mask for object. Just in case if you are making something emissive then extract the mask after inflate, set it as surface not as mesh.
Grant thx, I always enjoy your blender stuff, so nice, inspirational and relaxing!
btw In the Remesh popup menu, there are checkboxes for preserving Paint Mask and Face Sets.
Also in the Option popup menu on the right side of the Remesh popup menu, you have checkboxes to get global settings for different Auto-Masking, as Face Sets! to use with most sculpt tool, including the Mesh Filter!
Had been nice if it worked with the Transform tools as well!
Thanks👍🙂
That's pretty cool broether e
OMG it looks cooler.
Sad i didnt save a file before sculpt runes, ill keep going with my current file and try this in a new project.
Hope it dont give me problems later.
Making a mask of a image pattern would be nice also if possible. This video is really useful. I have never thought about using masks for patterns and I knew nothing of how to go about it. Thanks.
I tried this by creating a mask texture brush but it was very faint and not like just drawing with the mask brush. Be curious if anyone has tried this.
@@Hitsujioyaji Interesting even so. This is not the same thing, but I started thinking. What if one would render or take a screenshot of the area one would want to sculpt details on. Then make vector shapes over that image and save as SVG. Then open the SVG in PureRef and overlay it over Blender so the sizes of zoom and image placement match. Then mask over the details? I don't even know if it would work or if it would be worth the work. I think this subject is very interesting!
This works fine with the Mask brush. You just need to assign it a texture and set the stroke to "Drag Dot", Strength: 1.0, and Falloff: Constant. You can then invert the mask and use Mesh Filter + Inflate (or just the Move tool) to extrude it. You will have to get the brush radius to match. So since there's no way to save off a mask in Blender, this is probably the best way. Just copy a screenshot into PhotoShop/etc. as a base layer and draw on a new layer there. Then bring it in as an alpha... Hopefully Blender will add "layers" one day soon so that it's not a giant pain to go back and fix/update things.
@@Ziflinz brilliant solution can’t wait to try!
Thanks Master ! Thanks sa lot for your tutorials.
Amazing work, I benefited a lot and god bless you
Thanks of lot !🙏🏻🙏🏻
That's a great idea! And it looked like you wrote โสค along the top, which doesn't mean anything, but is a homonym for โศก which means "sorrow".
thanks you :)
Thank you so much! I didn't know how to use masks before and now I do! 🙏
Awesome 👍
THANK, YOU.
Me: *Watches video*
Me: "Oh no, I can't draw worth a damn and I'm definitely not doing anything like this with a mouse"
*One hour later*
Also me: "Huh, apparently I can draw."
Appreciate you showing us this method, now I know two different ways I can accomplish a similar thing. It actually turned out really good.
Man I wish you would have pinned a comment with this link before I did the rune stuff in the actual series :/
Thank you sir
Great tutorial!
Nice looking axe, but doesn't look practical because if the blade was stuck in a tree or something, the chopper part could get pulled out of the wooden handle because it of its shape. The only resistance would be some rope and the wood, which gets more and more space between it and the blade in time. So, it looks cool, but a discount store like Marcs has hatchets for under $5 and they would all last for basically infinity.
I created an AK-47 which consist of 1.75 milions of edges. It was hard for my computer to deal with such amount of details. It seems like your computer has no problem with dealing that much details. That's why I was wondering what the features of your computer has got. Thanks in advance..
See my kit video
@@grabbitt can you send me the link please?
@@semihaksoy8182 Hello! He may not have seen your reply because of how youtube's notification system works. I believe this is the video if you are still interested: ruclips.net/video/aZMnl8rNafM/видео.html
Hey it looks very good. I like your video. I wanna improve my sculpting skills. Thank you for your video. On my channel i have low poly modeling, texturing
This is crying out for some nondestructive technique, to make it easier to tweak things later. Perhaps something using Geometry Nodes? Displacement modifier?
This looks great! I saw a vid somewhere that showed a Bezier mask line being drawn for even greater control and sharpness. ???
Yes that's in the stroke option
@@grabbitt ZBrush doesn't even have it, do they?
Thanks a lot for this, Grant. Since this is part of your game asset series, will you later be showing how to convert this into something useable, since obviously the poly count from the sculpt is very high? Presumably you'd just completely bake the runes onto the flat base mesh of the axe?
Yes
With MaskTools you can do this with bump instead without the need of topology, but I guess you will bake this onto a retopologized low poly version later as a final step in the series.
Is there a place I can get the axe obj up to this point or should I just start the blade over?
I have not uploaded that one unfortunately
So at the end of this series you will bake it as normal map ?
Cause this look like so many tris i see ....
Yes
can you choose those masked faces to apply another texture on it?
Thank you sir ☺️
can you plz help how to set lighting for hand painted textures. my final render looks a lot different from what it looks in viewport. and do i have to set the lights up before starting the painting. thanks in advance love your videos .
tnx
After Part 8 I've already post my Axe on my social media 😂😂
The model has multi resolution or sub you can also rip a model and draw on the textures
Multi res
@@grabbitt Bro I have a query if I have a game rip model and I want to get the details with sculp how can I put the reference of that texture can you help me Thanks
What are the system features of your computer?
When I paint with Mask selected, nothing shows up. The Mask Overlay is turned on.
It's the same with Subdivision Surface applied or not.
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Upgraded from 3.2.1 to 3.6.2 and that fixed it. Bug in the system.
Can you please make a series like this for fps arms modeling?
Cause there is actually not even a single video/tutorial on that topic
*Also I tried modeling it my self and it turned out good but because of bad topology it sucked at rigging , ik and animations
fps arms are just arms that are cut out from the shoulder. Shouldn't be that hard to find a tutorial about modeling a body. The other way you can do it is by purchasing a base model online and make your own customizations to it
@@GriffinSteve15 i know i can find online or seperate them from base mesh but i want to model them my self
@@GAMER20Aayush you will find character creation tutorials for sure. Just see how the arms are modelled and you can recreate it :)
The detail in this axe seems like a little bit of an overkill for games. For gaming, it should be perfectly sufficient to work out the details as Normal/Bump maps. Not saying this isn't a really damn awesome object. The masking technique is certainly interesting and helpful for various purposes.
Yes it's more for fun really and it could be used in film also
Hi, what to do when mask brush is not working? Mask brush is not making any selection. please help me.
Nice
Is it possible to subdivide the specific area and then do higher resolution runes, without remeshing and adding non-nesscessary geo on other places?
its tricky
Bro make a tutorial to make karambit knife. Pls and I tried my best to make it but it was not good. Pls make tutorial for it
Hello Grant, I have a problem when scaling a cube. When in edit mode, then press 3 (face select), select the top face, I cannot scale in z axis, but it is ok for x and y axis.
Similar to other faces, the left and right faces cannot scale in y axiz, the front and back faces cannot scale in x axiz.
How can I fix that ?
Btw your videos are super awesome. I am working on the Get Good At Blender Series. 😍 Hoping one day can use blender to make animation!
I don't know what the problem is with this
I know this is a little older tut but I can't see my mask when brushing. How would I fix this? Thank you.
Check the render mode you are in
WHAT??? I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD DO THAT
so when i use mask tool, it doesn't turn black, can soemone help?
Difficult to say why that is
@@grabbitt While I don't know the reason, it fixed itself when I created a new file, so it's fine now
I have the same issue. I've tried everything. Mask overlay is on. I've run out of ideas.
I designed a sword and went through some parts like in the tutorial, but my sword became 2 million triangles and this is extremely heavy for the Unreal Engine, what can I do to optimize it?
Retopologise
Sir can u give tutorial of this axe with texture in substance painter ?
I won't be using substance but I think jayanam has
@@grabbitt yea but please we want frm u
Awesome vid & nice little time saving trick Grant! Thanks for sharing!
You know what would be really impressive is being the last comment. Maybe people should try that out for a real challenge?
Lol 😆
when are you going to add normal maps?
In a few episodes
hi,
when I change the Voxel size on the axe blade and then remesh
the blade seems to disintegrate.
I applied all the modifiers and all transforms
I am new to sculpting and can't seem to figure this out.
Check normals
Thanks for the tutorial, but I still can't sculpt the bandage (
And how you shade that with different materials? I can't find a tutorial :c
Later episodes I talk about this
@@grabbitt awesome 🥳
Masking method is much better for beginners. Never seen it before.
I feel like everyone is trying to be the first comment
I wrote first when video posted refreshed 5 times and no one was there so ye
I’m happy that people are sharing their thought here but I really don’t see the point of writing the comment which says “ I’m first haha” . What’s the point. This comment doesn’t provide any kind of meaning to anyone. Instead people should write comment that has something to do with grant’s content. That would be much more productive and helps to create better Grant’s community .
( I should mention I’m not commenting specifically to you. If i made you feel bad, I apologize in advance)
@@tomoyaogawa4485 thanks for the advice!
@@eddy9538 Nono thank you for taking your time to reading my comment 🙇🏻♂️
@@tomoyaogawa4485 You are right bro
Thanks Grant...confession: I’m using the techniques I learn from you in Nomad. Is that cheating? ✊🍺🎩🎩🎩 it all ends up in the blender in the end!
Hello everyone,
maybe somebody has some time to help me with this peculiar problem concerning masks:
My computer could so far handle everything that Grant did in his videos, even the small voxel sizes, which makes me believe it might not be a performance issue:
My mask and the mask-drawing just does not behave the same as Grants mask does in this video. Mine is very slow and stuttery and even though I am using the same brush radius and strength and all the same brush settings it is not nearly as fine-grained as Grants mask brush. I cannot really draw on my mask because it kinda lags a lot (I do have a drawing tablet and the scultping so far has worked out fine).
As I said I dont really think it is a performance problem because my computer so far could handle everything in this tutorial, I am probably missing some weird setting that makes it bug out for me.
My mask just seems to behave weirdly all together...
*One update on this*:
On any other mesh my mask works perfectly fine (so it is indeed not a performance issue!) it really is just the mesh of my axe blade on which the mask somehow does not work. Does anybody have any idea what could be the problem with a mesh so that the mask would not work properly on it?
Not sure why this would be
I ran into this. In case anybody else is having this issue, if you still have the mirror modifier (or any other unapplied modifiers) active on the mesh then it will impact performance. Just apply the modifier and performance should improve.
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