Painting with images comes out faint and distorted

[Belseth]

I’ve been doing this on other models without a problem. Now when I try to paint with an image it comes out faint and distorted. Even after laying it down several times I never get more than 50% of the darkness it should have. Even when I paint with solid color it comes out faint. I included the full screen so you can see intensity is at a 100% and everything else should be set right. So you know what I tried I tried deleting masks incase it some how got a mask applied but that did nothing. I thought there might be a UV causing the distortion. Zbrush had applied a UV to the original shape but deleting that didn’t stop the distortion. Kind at witsend. I spent an hour trying everything and even restarted the software but nothing changed. I’ve hit a road block with this one. I haven’t a clue what could be causing this?

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[_4Z4R]

To me it seems that the alpha you are using is causing the fade out issue.
Also make sure you have the Focal Shift set to -100 (Hotkey: O) to prevent the brush to fade out on the borders.

HTH

[Belseth]

Turned out it was the Crumple tool causing it. When I used Zbrush back in the day that tool wasn’t around. It was causing twists in the geometry that was also affecting the resolution in some areas. I could get rid of the problem by using Dynamesh but it was just easier to avoid the tool. Too bad because it made great rock textures.