ANSWERED: Using textures in masks is very grainy

illYay

I am trying to use a texture to add to my mask but it's only adding black or white to the mask, no gray in between. This results in very pixelated effects. I see no option to add any blur.

It seems to depend on the texture. I tried another and it managed to extract some gray but there are still very hard white pixels sticking out. If I could just apply a blur to it I'd get the result I want. I'd be afraid of manually trying to blur the texture since DDO will probably override my mask, if I can even find the texture itself.

loggie24

You don't add blur. You can modify the contrast and tightness of the mask which I going to give you the result you want.

illYay

I tried tweaking those but they had no effect. For example, I was using the dirty steel material to add scratches to my material. No matter what values I tweaked, it would only be either only black or only white pixels coming through in a dithered pattern. There were no smooth gray gradients.

Eric Ramberg

Hi! Are you talking about the Dynamask editor? If so maybe you can try to tweak the options in the "Post-process Options" at the bottom! Grey masks are absolutely possible, its just a matter of how hard you push Brightness / contrast controls!