Blender Texture Paint

[ATAG_yotheguy]

Hey everyone,

Thought I would post a bit of what I have learned about Blender's texture paint tab.

[Edit] Make sure you are in "Blender Render"

First I deleted the material. I'm sure you can import the texture from in-game, I just didn't take the time to look for it.
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Add new material.
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Click the "Texture Paint" tab,(left) and choose "GLSL"(right).
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Click texture(top) and make a new one.
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Make sure in the material tab you have Transparency checked.
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Click "Face selection" so you only paint on highlighted parts.
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Texture paint brushes.
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You should be able to draw on the model now, and make sure to save image.
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Now you can add more layers in the same way you made the first one.
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Now to make a stencil. Click on the brush tab. Add what ever you want to use as a stencil.
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In the tools part of the texture paint under the brushes, click "Texture"
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There is a few way to apply the stencil, but I will just show the "Stencil" one.
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Click "Image Aspect" so your stencil is the right shape.
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You will need to add a light to see what you are doing. Also under "View Port Shading" click "material"
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Next you will need to "tab" into "Edit Mode", then open your second layer from where you saved it.
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Tab back into "Texture Paint". Under the slots tab make sure you have the right layer highlighted, and also on the left in the texture tab. Then start painting away.
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You can move and resize the stencil with the right mouse button.
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I hope this can be of some help to any one that needs it.

[ATAG_Flare]

Awesome! Any way to do this in cycles render instead? I find cycles looks way nicer.

[♣_Spiritus_♣]

Yes it works in cycles, just a few different steps.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcCQKuWPhXk

[ATAG_yotheguy]

Awesome! Any way to do this in cycles render instead? I find cycles looks way nicer.

Yup, but Blender render lets you have more control over the layers.

[Jeast]

Dont forget to uv unwrap correctly first. Else you wil probably end up with distorted textures and you wont be able to edit in an external editor.

[ATAG_Ribbs]

Hey Jeast... If you know how to do that.. Maybe your name should be in purple also:thumbsup:

Cheers

[Jeast]

Hey Jeast... If you know how to do that.. Maybe your name should be in purple also:thumbsup:

Cheers
Haha well I have tried to join 2 times over the past year but never got a reaction. Im now part of the team working on the new Arma 3 WW2 mod so quite busy on that [emoji6]

[ATAG_yotheguy]

Haha well I have tried to join 2 times over the past year but never got a reaction. Im now part of the team working on the new Arma 3 WW2 mod so quite busy on that [emoji6]

How did you try and join? That's right you will have to uvmap it to a texture if you are starting out from nothing. This was to show a guy in TF how he could use it to make skins with Blender. So this is a model from the game and has been uvmaped already.

Thanks for the notes guys.:ilike: