From the course: Sculpting a Game Asset in Blender

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The Mask Brush

The Mask Brush

- For the rest of the handle, I think I'd like a leather strip around that, as if it's been wrapped in leather. To do that, let's use the Mask tool. So up here if we click on this icon, we can choose the Mask tool for our brush. And if we zoom in here, we can see that if I draw on this, or if I paint on this, you can see it lays down a black or grey mask. Well, what we want is we want this mask to be full strength, and I also don't want it to be influenced by the pressure of my stroke, so I'm going to turn off pressure sensitivity, I want it to just always be 100% there. So now if I come over here and I begin painting on the handle, you can see I'm laying down this opaque kind of dark grey onto the handle, and this is the mask, this will, the mask will block any attempt at sculpting on the object. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to then... Paint out particular portions of the handle, particular portions of the mask, that I do want to sculpt, so here, let me show you what I mean.…

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