They are super powerful. I use this in almost every project

Hmm, great question. I am trying to remember. I think what I used was the default soft brush and used a grunge map that we ship with Painter for the Alpha. Alpha: Dirt Spots is a good one. I also adjust the Jitter settings on the brush for Jitter, Angle and Position.

Thanks! I think we could make a filter that does a sample coordinate fx. I will ask about this.

I am sorry for issues. Can you let me know what part in the video you are having the trouble and I will check to see on some workarounds.

​@@wes.mcdermott thanks for the reply, maybe it happened because I was using bigger model with relatively lower texture so it didn't look good as much. I am trying to adjust some bars and numbers to make it look better. if I need your help again, I will leave the comment again.

To be honest, I am not really using blender much anymore. As artists, we sometimes might look at the tools we use an extension of ourselves. That is understandable. I try not get too attached and I use tools as just tools. If something isn't working for me, I just move on to something else. I don't bash the tool as it's working great for someone else.

@@wes.mcdermott yeah no I'm just an idiot 🤣😂🤣 blender is working great for me now, only took about 16hours of nonstop usage to get around the learning curve.

I have to export them manually. We do have an updated API that could be used to create export tools for this. I will talk to a co-worker about some ideas around this : )

Thanks! I will take a look at a video for that. I am using the path tool in Painter along with anchor points to drive some masking on layers. It's a compound effect but once it is setup, you just need to create the mask.

@@wes.mcdermott sure!! Waiting for your video 😄😄

You can export directly from Modeler. It has the ability to create UVs as well a decimation and retoplogy. For example, you can choose to export as Quads and we use QuadRemesher to create the toplogy at a user defined polycount.

Thanks!

Yeah, it's definitely not realistic and can lead to uncanny valley.

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you much! In the VR mode, you can use image planes. I will ask when they will add reference images on Desktop. I know it has been discussed.

The UVs from Zbrush will carry over as well. You can also use the Auto UV tools in Painter to create UVs instead of working with UV Master in Zbrush

@@wes.mcdermott yeah but uvmaster and auto uv is not doing the uv maping realy well! i live those methods as the last option

With Painter, we only have the Auto Option. Have you looked at Rizom? It's very good tool for UVs. www.rizom-lab.com/

Hi! I did work on a test for this and it wasn't prefect, in all situations so I ended up not releasing it. I was having trouble with concave areas.

@@wes.mcdermott I downloaded a plug-in for this from... was it Art Station, I think? Yeah, I was hoping for an Arnold-esque effect, but didn't get it. Thanks for all you do bro.

Thank you much : ) Yeah, it was an Ok test but just not very good to release it.

Yes, you will still see the geometry. However, what this technique does is remove the shading artifacts.

Thank much! Glad it was helpful.

You have it correct in regard to inefficiency. Hard edges (smoothing split) increases vertex count on the GPU and any UV split does as well. However, they don't add together. If you have a smoothing split, then its 2 vertices. The UV split will not make it 3. So, the workflow in the case of the 6 UV islands would be to use a single smoothing group for the cube and mimize the UV shells as much as possible. However, in this scenario, you would need to make sure the Tangent Basis is synced between the baker and the renderer. This is not much of an issue today. We use MikkTspace in Painter and this is used in UE and Unity as well. In this case, you will get some extreme gradients in the bake, which could cause some compression issues. So, in the end, there is plus and minus to all the techniques. It's good to know what is happening behind the scenes and there is never a single solution.

Are you setting the paint layer normal channel blending mode to normal? This should stop the blending.

@@wes.mcdermott it doesn't okay try this add a fill layer add black mask then add another fill layer inside that black mask and have only height detail enable and maybe add hexagon pattern that applies to all of the model or selected texture set and then add a paint layer on top with only normal map and drag a normal map detail and starting adding normal map detail no matter what i do the fill layer from below always shows up on the normal details i have tried everything every blending mode cant figure out whats going on there.

You're very welcome!

Yes totally agree : ) I will ask about this.

To create a new Paint Path you hit the Enter Key. This will allow you to create a new path and you will see the new Path layer listed in the top left corner of the Paint Path Menu in the viewport.

@@wes.mcdermott thank you very much!

You are most welcome!

You are welcome! Thanks for checking out the video.

Very sorry for late reply. This is not a very new feature. However, it was added in 8.2.0 (Released: October 06, 2022)

Very sorry for late reply. Yes, I think you could try the mask outline filter which works based on the UV shells.

Glad it was helpful!

I am sorry but I am not sure. This was designed to be used with Nanite in UE. I am not sure if Unity has an equivalent feature.

Thanks!

I can look into it. I haven't been working with the API in a long while. I have someone in my team is looking into the new API tools. I can talk to them about upgrading the plugin.

Thank you very much! So sorry for the late reply. I greatly appreciate your support.

Thank you much! I feel the same way when I look at my co-workers. I think we all feel that way about our work. Best thing to do is to always keep moving forward and most importantly, have fun with 3D. Enjoy the journey.