Texture Painting - Blender Master Class: A Hands-on Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering - page 154

Current brush

Current brush

Active UV coordinate set
(determines which image
you are painting on)

Brush settings

Texture settings

Project Paint settings

Quick Edit buttons

Enable Texture Painting
in the UV Image editor Texture Paint mode

Figure 11-1: Texture Paint mode in Blender. Here, I've used the modified UV Unwrapping Layout created in Chapter 8. This layout
allows me to paint textures in the 3D Viewport (right), to see and edit the resulting image in the UV Image editor (left), and to edit
materials and settings in the Properties editor.

under the 3D Viewport cursor and copy it to
where you paint, allowing you to clone from one
part of the model to another within the same
texture. With the Clone option turned on in
the Project Paint settings, the brush will instead
clone texture information from the same part
of the mesh but from the texture assigned to a
different UV coordinate set (the one chosen in the
Project Paint settings).

Project Paint
Blender has two ways to
paint textures in Texture
Paint mode. The older,
legacy method, while
useful, has significant
limitations. The newer
Project Paint method
offers a more advanced
set of tools, including
ones that allow you to
mask and clone textures
using other UV coordi-
nates and images and to
paint only on surfaces vis-
ible from your viewpoint.
When enabled, Project
Paint gives you the options
shown in Figure 11-2. I dis-
cuss these options below
in the order in which they
appear on the Project
Paint panel.

Smear This will smear your texture in the direc-
tion of the brushstroke. It can be used to blend
colors and to smudge out mistakes.

Soften This blurs the texture under your stroke,
reducing noise and fine details.

These brush types can be duplicated and modi-
fied just like Blender's sculpt brushes, allowing you
to create a variety of brushes tailored to your needs.
Also, as in Sculpt mode, you can apply textures to
your brush using the Texture panel of the Tool
Options region. The texture you apply will then
multiply with your brushstrokes while you paint.

Figure 11-2: The Project
Paint panel has a variety
of options for controlling
how Blender's texture
brushes work.