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Q: Paint depth AND color at same time?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

Is this possible? (in 4R7, Windoze 7).

I’ve tried some combinations without success.

I’m guessing you have to do it via polypaint (no texture enabled).

But using both an alpha and a texture at the same time with RGB or MRGB enabled seems to ‘color’ based on the alpha
not the texture - in fact the texture seems to be ignored.

What I’d like to do is use a transparent texture to recolor the base in certain areas of the alpha.

E.G. a ‘stitch’ brush. Raise stitching effect and color the stitches at the same time (going back and coloring the
stitching later is painful).

G.

#2

It doesn’t seem to be a problem:
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#3

OK. Thanks Altea. I’ll have to re-initialise and try again. Maybe I was trying to run before walking here (loading
up my transparet texture). I’ll try what you did and stick to basic brush and tex (to start with).

#4

Well I messed around some more. But couldn’t get what I needed.

To clarify my intent a little better …

Normally texture and depth are applied masked by alpha. Fair enough.

What I wanted to do (I now realise) was further restrict the application of color by using a partially transparent texture.

But it looks like ZB just doesn’t do that. Loading the Tex with ‘black=transparent’ appears to be aimed at a different
result (transparent applied material). Loading a texture with an alpha mask just doesn’t seem to work. I tried both
methods, but consistently got color (usually black) applied over the entire brush.

Oh well. If I find a method that works later I’ll come back and update.

G.

Edit: Well the answer soon came to me. Simply modify the texture to paint a black mask on otherwise
white polypaint. Then export the polypaint as a texture. That texture can then be used in an external paint
app’ as a mask to color the strokes as you wish. More flexible that way too, as you don’t need to pin
down the color early.