Brush backface masking just doesn't work.

system · September 25, 2011, 11:00am

Yea, backface masking doesn’t work. I switch it on and sculpt in a thin location of my mesh and instead of bulging the front facing mesh it only bulges the backfacing mesh, which is really ridiculous. Changing the backface mask property just doesn’t make a difference. WHY??

Thanks…

Richard_Marklew · September 25, 2011, 11:39am

Sounds like your backface masking intensity is set to -100. Make sure it is set to 100

system · September 25, 2011, 11:47am

I tried all values.

system · September 25, 2011, 3:44pm

The direction of masking is related to the direction of the surface normals. If the masking in inverted it means that the mesh faces are facing inward instead of outward. Press the tool:display properties:Flip and try again.