SOLVED: Dynamask Custom Painting

Psychotic_Mike

I had a go painting custom alphas, love the new feature though I find it really hard to know exactly where I am painting on my textures, as I cannot see the texture beneath the alpha in order to have fine control over the painting process.
Dont know if my workflow is correct, I'd appreciate if someone could explain or send a tutorial my way.
Thanks!

Tzur_H

I tried to paint some masks today and I've got the same issue. No idea where I'm actually painting on haha. Refreshing the mask after every stroke isn't fun, I'm using ddo with marmoset link. Please help!

Elod.H

Can't you turn on the UV's for a better representation on where you are painting?

Woodee

Elod.H wrote: »

Can't you turn on the UV's for a better representation on where you are painting?

Where is that option?

Elod.H

Hm, I remember in the older DDOs we had the possibility to add a UVW input map as well, but I see it's not there anymore. Maybe add your UV's manually to the top of the entire layer stack and turn it on manually when you are painting the masks?

Psychotic_Mike

I use Masks to reveal highlights (like cavity) so I have a general idea where I am painting, when finished I just paint the other areas with black and I'm done.
Not entirely perfect system as it can take ages to define and refine specific areas. Wish I could paint over the mask in 3DO. That would be perfect!

endeffect

We can just request a better suited solution for this from Teddy maybe. While im painting a custom mask i need to check my uvs constantly, and sometimes it's really hard to see what's your painting if your current mask covers most of the place.

CKohl

For the time being you could do a flatten layer copy in your Albedo map (select topmost visible layer, then Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E) and copy/paste that into the painting area for the mask under your painted layer so you can see where you're painting, then delete it before applying the mask.

Elod.H

Psychotic_Mike wrote: »

Wish I could paint over the mask in 3DO. That would be perfect!

Thought about this myself, that would be great!

grimsonfart

Elod.H wrote: »

Thought about this myself, that would be great!

3D painting would be icing on the cake

endeffect

I guess 3D painting is a little bit high hopes for now by looking at the state of quixel suite and megascans. I'm even sold for live linking to another 3d paint application for custom mask painting. But i really want to hear from teddy what does he think to improve this custom painting workflow in near future like next version.

Eric Ramberg

Hi guys!

You are very correct that its hard to see where you are painting, I´ve been struggling with this myself, we are looking in to what would be the best solution, Uv overlay or Color ID even, just rest assured its being worked on!

3D painting would be very cool indeed...

CKohl

Eric Ramberg wrote: »

3D painting would be very cool indeed...

You tease sir.

Eric Ramberg

Haha busted

Woodee

CKohl wrote: »

You tease sir.

That sound cool, looking forward to it!!