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Painting texture with displacement at the same time.

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Obviously we can paint with a texture and an Alpha map at the same time but, the Alpha also masks the texture.

So my question is - how can I paint with a texture and an Alpha that matches the texture but not mask it. Is this possible ?

Sometime it would be good to paint textures with extrusions/displacements that match the texture but in no way mask the texture…

At present I am doing tree bark for example and using a greyscale version of the treebark in the alpha and a colour version of the bark in the texture but most of it is being masked by the alpha…

#2

you can record the stroke that you’re applying.
do one with the alpha
repeat the same stroke with the texture.

ctrl+1 will repeat the last stroke as well.

#3

That looks like a slow, long way 'round a simple thing but thanks for the input. I shall look into recording strokes.
Will we see multiple layered strokes soon ? I guess not until we see texture layers !