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Face sets - Blender Tutorial

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Face sets

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- [Instructor] Face sets are a quick and easy way to work in a part of your sculpture in total isolation. Let me show you. Let's go ahead and just sculpt something really quick, doesn't matter what, I just want to add some random bits of detail to this entire thing. All right, so it looks like we got some stuff going on here. Now, scroll down to the bottom, and you'll see a green-yellow-reddish kind of looking icon. Go ahead and click on it and then just start painting. The moment you start painting, you'll see a green harsh outline. It's looking for those face edges. So unlike a mask, it's actually going to use the exact face and not smooth between it. If you paint again and again, you'll note that the color changes, even if you paint on top of it. Now that I've gone ahead and painted all of this stuff, I'm going to put my mouse over, say this orange bit and hit H. What's happened is that I've hidden everything else, and I'm working solely on this set of faces. Hence the name, face sets. If I scroll up to the top, I can use this tool and paint around. (no audio) Now, if I come back down to face sets or go to this venue, I can show all faces. The shortcut for that is also alt H. Now on one side, I'm able to work solely on the faces that I selected, but the downside is that I'm going to create these polygonal cliffs, because again, it's only working on the faces I have selected. Another thing I could do is move my mouse over, say this grayish area, and hit shift H. Shift H actually hides whatever is underneath the cursor, so I can hide this purple as well. And now if I wanted to, I could go ahead and just work on the green-blue stuff. (no audio) Then, I could come back down to face sets and either hit all H or I can hit W and go to show all. (no audio) If you wanted to, you could also expand your current face set just by holding your mouse over whichever one you wanted, then hold down control and just start painting. (no audio) Finally, the next tool you can do is shift W and that creates this sort of boxy face set. So that way you can quickly select whichever faces you want to. And again, you can just hit shift H to either hide it or H to hide everything else. By the way, you might note that this little blue area is now cut in half. If I hold over my mouse here and hit H I'll only still select the blue ish area, because it's part of one single face set. Again, you can hold down W go to show all or hit alt H and that will reveal everything. And, if you forget the shortcuts, it's okay, you can always come up to face sets and access everything from up here. Face sets are a peer utility tool, and they don't affect your sculpture in any way. The colors and everything don't actually stay on the sculpture, they're just a way to hide other things, and allow you to control where you're sculpting. In a way you can kind of think of them as like having multiple masks. I really recommend you add this tool to your workflow, because it'll help you focus all your energies while sculpting.

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