Make sure to set it to non-color data.

Hey Andrew! The reason for the different look of the top portion (the anvil-s "face") is that it is actually a different physical material. The face is usually hard steel, while the rest is wrought iron or cast iron (softer metal). This hard surface serves to bounce almost all the force of the hammer strike that wasn't absorbed by deformation of the piece back to the hammer in order to help the blacksmith lift the hammer again for the next strike, thereby making the whole process less tiring. As for the shiny polish on the face, it has to be that way so as not to transfer imperfections from it to the piece you're hammering on. All this I learned doing some research on anvils as preparation to watching your tutorial series, and would strongly recommend any artist to do this type of research on the actual objects they'll be modelling. It will make your models that much more realistic.

16:40 “Lots of fun for the whole family” Andrew realizing he has a shit ton of responsibilities and more are coming his way with his new child.

Proud of myself, I didn't actually foresee Andrew using cloud brush in this tutorial and did it on my own before that part of the tutorial came around. This just shows what an effective teaching tool this tutorial series is

Okay, for those who are experiencing Blender crashes when texture painting, here's a workaround. Do all the way up to creating the blank image for the "polish mask". Next, go to the material properties on the right side bar Click the plus button to add a new materal slot. This should change your shader node editor to an empty one. Next, click new inside this blank editor window, and a new Principled BSDF and output will appear Now follow the steps to add the image texture node, apply the polish mask to that new node. Now go back to your material properties on the right, and you'll see the second material below your first one. Tab into Edit mode, the press A to select the entire mesh Click the new material and click the "assign" button. Tab back out of edit mode and go back to texture paint mode. Once its assigned your model should turn black, and you should now be able to texture paint to your hearts content. Once you're finished with texture painting. Save the polish mask from the image editor. Then go back to the material properties and remove the second material slot. Your painted mesh will now be available for use in the original material slot, then you should be able to proceed with the video. Hope this helps anyone struggling.

At 12:40 - for those using Blender 2.9 trying to find the "+" brush button. Click on the Brush icon (top left) and the brush properties appear in panel next the the main view. Under the ball with the squiggly line is a box saying "TexDraw". To the right of the is a number, then a shield then what looks like a sheet of paper with its corner turned over with another sheet of paper behind it. This is the "+" button to create a new brush. Why oh why do they change these things? Much more intuitive to have a "+" than what it's been replaced with!!!

If you don't see your UV's while texture painting, hit Tab to go into edit mode and hit A to select everything, then Tab back out. This should make your UV islands show up

Best texturing tutorial series so far

If anyone is wondering why control shift click doesn't work, it's because you need to enable node wrangler in plugin settings

I never expected to reach this level of detail in only one month of learning .... Best Blender course ever

To select which texture you want to paint, In Texture Paint mode, open Tools, in Slots tab are the avaliable textures, select the one you need

You are amazing! It's not only that your tutorials are so complete but the greatest thing I found in you is that you're not boring when explaining all these stuff. Your voice, the way you communicate with people, even your jokes give at your tutorials a much more easy and funny look. Thank you!!

As usual, a very clear and impressive tutorial, by its simplicity and the special way that you get to explain things not obvious, with always the concern of the details that end to make the difference at the end of the day. Certainly one of the best series of tutorials I've never seen so far. Cherry on the cake, an English accent that fit perfectly with my own skill in that language (I'm French!). Keep on going Andrew, you're the best :)

Amazing tutorial, probably one of the best blender channels that I have seen. Thanks a lot

This tutorial series are awesome. From modelling to UV unwraping to sculpting, I used all of them to create my profile picture.

12:40 for 3.0 on the image editor screen with your white and black image on it, press n and there will be a button next to the X button underneath the picture of the brush you are using. Press this button to make a new brush and click on the picture above it to select your brushes. Hope this helps idk...

Thanks everyone in the comments..half of my problems are solved because of you guys

The whole Anvil Series is the best tuts on youtube so far. I love it, keep it up.

In case anyone runs into the same problem as me, texture painting was showing up on the opposite side on the model when painting so I had to switch to edit mode then hit "A" to select all then "Shift + N" to recalculate normals. After this it fixed it for me

This is an excellent lesson. Especially useful for modeling outdoor environments, like where a dirt/stone path may meet a grassy field.

I know all features you introduced in anvil tutorials and to be honest it's very basic but it is very useful for me because you showed effective workflow. This is what I needed for a very long time. It was frustrating because I knew all the features but I didn't know how to use them. Now I know and modeling will be much easier for me. Thanks Andrew :)

@blender guru *tip* I think you should cut off the lighter levels of the bump map for the polished part. Cause if you think about it in the real world, most of it is perfectly flat until some dents and bumps were just too deep to get polished. At the moment all of your top just has a slight and uniform bump which makes it look off. You could archive a better look by changing the bump map so that most of it is white until some black parts just lurk through. Like so he can see. Hope that made sense as English isn't my native language. Awesome tutorial so far.

Love you, Andrew. been following you for years.

IF you cant paint on the mesh,press N and under the brush panel there is the Mask panel and under that is the texture panel... Delete the texture

When you google "polish mask" you get images of gas masks... , well, alright. Great video!

Oh God - 3am again? I'm enjoying Blender too much!!! :o)

loving the frequent uploads...:D

BEST TUTORIAL SERIES EVER

Great tut. Thanks Andrew

2:42 if you click on the top value and drag down to the second one, you can select both at the same time and don't have to copy the value. Always comes in handy when creating a new image or setting up the resolution... Great Video btw.

Your tutorials have given me hope to becoming an actual 3D artist. Before I used 3Ds max thinking blender is difficult to use.. BOY was I wrong!

This is probably the most realistic and detailed anvil ever created in 3D and he isn't even finished yet! Isn't that something to be proud of? :). At least I couldn't find any better looking ones online.

Oh Wow! I was struggling with this for a few days, nothing I did made it look like you had it! I found out that I forgot to save the Normal as an image on my hard drive!! that fixed it and now I'm back, it was also taking for ever and looked really bad and dark! Make sure when you are watching these tutorials to go step by step!

Well polished tutorial series, I say. And I should know - I'm Polish ;) Thanks for all the work you put into your tutorials, Andrew! I've been watching these ever since my first steps in Blender and I've grown so much as an artist thanks to you!

I actually needed this for the doughnut. Thanks!

This tip for material sort of masking was very good, thanks!

10:15 this dude is so funny as well as helpful. i feel like his goofiness throughout makes him such a good instructor

Big thumbs up for you andrew!

polish polish....... you're my favorite tutor because of all these tangents you go on xD

Thanks for the company during the blender nights :)

Really good series.

btw, if your paint's brush is always black - delete it and create new

Thank you for this, it's appreciated greatly

excellent, like always! thanks!

16:52 Remember to turn on Cemetery so you can see the zombies in the reflections.

blender 2.79 have so many improvement, i think that it would be a very interesting video... however GOOD WORK Andrew!

@Blender Guru at 13:40 you asked why it has to be a white brush. I think it's because blender multiplies the brushcolor with the texture. So if the brushcolor is black [rgb(0, 0, 0)] and you multiply it by the all the pixels in the texture -> your texture will be entirely black. Whereas if your brushcolor is white [rgb(1, 1, 1)] and multiply it with the texture -> the texture remains the same. Thanks for the tutorial though, it was really helpful!!

Excelente tutorial Blender Guru. I find blender internal painting tools quite useful if you switch between a proper painting program like gimp or photoshop. The idea I could overlap textures in a single model is fantastic because I could work on layers in the program and then ensamble then in Gimp as a single texture And most importantly if you do that kind of operation with a painting tablet because using a mouse it's a nightmare.

Anvils, beside the very top surface, are usually made of wrought iron because it's easier to forge weld and combine scraps. Some new ones are just machined mild steel.

Thanks Andrew, you're awesome mate. :)

Dude, iam pretty far beyond this point with Blender but i still love watching this series!!

6:19 for anyone having issues with texture painting meaning as you paint and red and white check pattern appears make sure to go to toolbar and from there delete the image pattern if it's already selected in texture box.

Is it weird that I watched this entire tutorial series so far without even having blender installed?

Someone commented this before, but just so it can be more recently seen, If you are getting a checkered box look while painting, Press N to open the Tool bar, go to brush settings > Texture, then delete the texture. You must be in Texture Paint mode to see it.

I had huge lags while texture painting, because of subdivision modifier. It probably obvious, but took me a while to figure out-_-

Hello Andrew. Though I have followed many of your videos, this is special, such a complete and very instructive sequence - going through many steps: modelling, sculpting, baking, texturing and all filled with insight. Thank you. I have lost you at one point ever since Texturing-Part 1 (strange because you are usually so instructive and thorough). You mention that it is difficult to combine normal textures, yet you go right ahead and add the normal texture of the corroded metal and since that point, the baked normal with the sculpted relief is out of the "picture". You may re-introduce it in later videos, however at this point I am left wondering if I may have misunderstood something? Btw I challenged myself to make the pbr material off a freebie from Poliigon, one that was rusted metal of a scraped painted surface, substituting the white of the remaining paint with metal and got quite good results. An interesting exercise, I'll send you the .blend if you like.

11:30 Click the little pin next to the X on the UV editor window to pin the image so it won't move or disappear

You are the best, "sir".

I believe you need the white for the cloud texture because it acts as a tint. The tint gets applied through multiplication. If you have black selected, you would be multiplying by 0, whereas using white you're multiplying by 1.

Nice i love your tutorial :D

Ah yes, Poland mentioned! Great tutorial by the way

You are my personal messiah!

If your pain brush is not working in blender 3.2 then In texture pain mode press N go to the Texture mask and cross the texture mask ❌

Best Thing ever!

When will be the next bg critique? I hope that you are still doing them.

This is very confusing in 2.9 version I tried for 3 straight days 😕

Unfortunately something happened where the normal map we created from the hammered anvil is now totally off, and attempts to fix it yield no results. I might have accidentally done another UV unwrap and a normals flip somewhere towards the beginning of this video trying to fix another problem. This is the point where I just give up on this tutorial! I'm still very thankful to you Andrew for providing all these helpful resources, I've learned a lot and will continue to do so using other videos on your channel! Cheers mate

If you do the texture painting in look dev viewport mode, you can see how your two materials look, as you paint. Just make sure tou set up the mix shader first.

I was actually thinking about the polish Polish thing right before you mentioned it

Hi Andrew! Never been this early to any video :)

You forgot to enable anisotropy on the reflection of the shiny material, the reference image has a bit of that where it's polished. Wonderful tutorial as always... I think texture painting is very useful and deserves being a little more hyped than it's been.

When you activated the node wrangler, you can press Ctrl+Shift and drag with the right mouse button from source to destination node. Then you can select source and destination input. Works good when you are far zoomed out and don't want to fiddle around with the tiny inputs. Check out the website of node wrangler. Useful tips there. :-)

As a Polish person, thanks for recognizing our people 4ish years ago.

03:21 Whoa, that looks like old blueprints of some top-secret weapon :)

If you experience lag while your trying to texture paint, turn off occlude under options in the tool/brush settings.

This painting over the full texture feature in Blender is 1000x better than the one Zbrush uses; which is painting on a extremely high res mesh be cause it paints over vertices (that must be heavy for the processor!! Not sure tho) Still unbelievable that this is all FREE, just gotto love it!! I also love Zbrush haha.

Is there going to be a follow-up tutorial video to this 2nd part? Is it a weekly thing, Andrew or? Also, I am thinking of getting a tablet for doing textures and Photoshop stuff. As it would be my first tablet, is there a major difference between the Intuos Pro and Intuos Pen and Touch lines for a beginner user?

I think the reason why you can only paint it in either white or black for the texture, is that its like its applying a mask, where white allows the texture through but black masks it out.

why couldn't you mix the bumpy bump node with a smooth default bump node and adjust the factor?

Hello! Love your videos! I don't think people don't do texture painting because it is fiddly, I think it is because it is very buggy and crashes file before can even mask a small place... This is what I am running into all the time.

Hello Andrew & all. Your tutorials are awesome. I’m rookie at 3D. So in this part of tutorial when I start texture painting, just like you. It’s painting in a weird way. Even though I paint only top part, other parts of mesh gets textured as well, partially . Thought it might be a Subdivision Surf modifier, I applied it but still have issues. Any suggestions how to fix this???🙏🏻👍👍

use face selection masking next time xD. also i learned a few things on the way.. great job

I am watching this tutorial on repeat. I think it's a high-level but not boring tutorial. At first, the modeling was difficult, so I failed a few times, but after watching it several times, the modeling was somewhat successful, but I eventually gave up on the texture work due to the huge bug of the blender in the last texture painting. I've tried over 100 times, but blender keeps crashing for unknown reasons. It was forced to close more than 30 times while modeling. Blender is worth learning, but it seems to be an unstable program for professional or professional use. Finally, thank you for giving me the opportunity to see this detailed and high-level tutorial for free.

im curious final part how to bake all that stuff, cuz jumping to 3dcoat and SP drives me mad already, btw cool video

Btw Andrew, have you seen that 2.79 has a "filmic" option in the color management settings? And if yes, is it the same as the filmic blender plugin that you made a video about earlier this year?

Polish ≠ polish ;) sound similar but... btw - best blender 'guru' on KZfaq!!!

4:45 if in Texture Paint the brush does not work, delete TexDraw, press X to delete all brushes. Create a new brush.

you know, using a wacom does make the modeling process faster too and not just texturing or sculpting, at least in maya it is. you should give it a try

16:58 the ramp option is changed to Color Ramp.

If anyone else add the problem of not being able to paint anymore after creating a new brush, even after changing back to original brush (version 3+), I realized that for whatever reason my cloud texture was not linked to the new brush, and basically all brush textures became "black" (just a black square). So when it's black it just doesn't paint at all, even if you inverse color. So for me the easiest was simply to delete my brushes et create new ones, and apply the cloud texture. And it worked. I don't know what I did wrong but if somebody else has that problem, just delete brush and start again...

More advanced modelling tutorial!! maybe an organic one

2:55 Greetings from Poland :)

Hello Andrew! I am beginner at 3D, using 2.93 version at this moment! I managed to follow your tutorial until this point, with research, reading comments etc... but at this point I just cant texture painting! I need some help guys... made it this close and I wanna finish this!! Thank you in advance!!

do you think it is possible to use some kind of threshold in the bump texture of the chrome part, to make it more like if it has been polished, and not spray painted?

Hey guys! maybe nobody will read this. Worth the try. I tried everything, and I dont know whats happening. When i am painting the texture on the 3d viewport I get the white paint like the tutorial but with tiny black spots but when I use the same paint brush on the image editor the texture brush works fine displaying only the white texture without dots and also adding it fine on the 3d viewport. I just want to know if i may have pressed an option on the 3d viewport, that I can't find or is it a glitch? Thanks. Awesome tutorial, Blender Guru.

Is there a way to use the height info you already have for the texture and use that to inform where the polished/chrome area is apparent - instead of random clouds. Using nodes tex coordinates and the like, I'm like to think you could make the highest points be the ones receiving the polish, this would look much more realistic. Maybe that's not possible or outside the scope of this introduction?

I understand why this tutorial is 22 minutes long and I like that length, but I wish that there was more content per video. I watch a 2X speed and I'm always surprised when the end comes so soon. Don't let that stop you from putting out content though.

Nice tutorial series. One, if not the best tutorial on the matter on youtube. I think you should disable the displacement map on the polish material, it looks to rought. I am not the expert. I just love CG, but my talent for any kind of art is non existent.

The reason the black doesn't show up is there is a lot more variation in lighter colors in computers than darker ones because of the way color is stored

For those who have trouble hiding unused node sockets try Ctrl+H instead of Ctrl+8 as I was hearing:)