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Backface masking feature. Help me, pls!

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#1

Hallo all! Please! Can someone give some advice what switches and pref. settings influence the functionality of backfacemasking feature when poly painting? Always whem I turn backface masking on, my simple brush stops painting. I cannot find out why this happens. I need to paint thin ears and want to have different colors on two sides of them.

Thank you in advance!

V

#2

I don’t have any such problem. Have you made sure that your brush has Draw>Rgb turned on? By the way, you said simple brush. Did you really mean standard?

You might also try adjusting the BackMaskInt slider, or the BackMaskCurve.

#3

Hi aurick. I’ sending you screen shots of what I was doing exactly. Backfacemasking still doesn’t work.

  1. With polygroup head visible, I chose my painting brush and appropriate color.
    2)Then I painted a color on the inner side of the model’s ear.
  2. Color of paint strokes appears on the back side of the ear, which is what I don’t want.
  3. I turned on “Backfacemasking” option in Brush settings pallete and tryed to paint again , but no painting was made.
  4. I tried to adjust Backface masking editing curve and tried to paint again. With no success.
    I add here alo some screenshots of my Alpha and Stroke settings, just to make sure I send you everithing what could affect my work.

If you find out what could be the matter, write to me, please.

Thanx

V

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#4

Yes and here are missing screenshots.

V

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#5

By the way, which version of ZBrush are you using?

#6

3.1

#7

Come on guys! I’m having the same problem here.

Is the tool backface masking tool busted in Zbrush 3.1?
I can’t paint ****e on thin surfaces. :cry:

Sparky.

#8

I can not recreate the problem you guys are having either.

It could be a plug in you have installed…maybe…