Adding scratches manually
polycounter lvl 2
I want to add scratches with a brush. I want them to have depth. I can adjust the height of the stroke and have it apply the base material, but I want to have the scratch be a different material. Like brass underneath paint. When I select some materials, however, the height option (slider) of the brush stroke disappears. The height button is there, just not the slider. The first two examples show it with the slider, and the second two without. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I only made the distinction about what is and isn't procedural because you seemed to have misinterpreted what I recommended in the first comment as telling you to use procedural methods. I did not. Good luck.
There are a few other ways to achieve this if you're insistent on making life difficult for yourself but the method suggested is by far the best.
To clarify..
Add a material layer and paint the scratches into it's mask
The reason the height slider disappears is that you're painting materials that don't output height.
The reason we all use layers and masks is that it gives you control over stuff like that
" The reason the height slider disappears is that you're painting materials that don't output height. "
Yes. I understand that. Why doesn't it output height if I have that checked? Look at the picture I posted. I can make it work with some materials, but not the brass one I show in the second series.
" just add a Level and set it to Height" Do you mean a layer or a level as in an effect?
If you can't understand what I'm posting, Please stop replying. No one is taking crazy pills, maybe a-hole pills but not crazy pills.
There is no height channel in the brass material so no height happens when you paint it.
You can add a paint effect that affects height to your material but you will have to paint your scratches twice
In the first one height is set to 0 which means zero effect.
You posted asking for advice on how to do something the wrong way, you got given a better way to do it and argued. That's inviting eye rolling I'm afraid.
I echo the tutorial watching suggestion - like most software painter works very well if you use it the way it wants to be used. If you try to work outside the system it is difficult.