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Paint textures in Blender - Blender Tutorial

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Paint textures in Blender

- The next step in the pipeline, after unwrapping, is painting the texture on your character or mesh. In this video, I'm going to show ya how to do that with just a few clicks. Now first, let's go ahead and delete this cube, hit shift + a, click on monkey, in this case, let's leave generate UVs on, because they're pretty good. Click on texture paint, and right away you'll see a pink monkey. Now let's hold here for a second, pink is a sign from blender that a texture is missing. So, if you ever see this exact shade of pink, in your scenes, in your renders, regardless if it's eevee or cycles, this is a sign to you that a texture is missing. Now interestingly enough, if you see everything is kind of washed in a pink light, that means that your world, which is right up here, has a texture connected to it, and it is missing the texture. So, pink is a sign to you that a texture is not linked correctly. Now let's click on material, click on new, down on base color, let's click on it, and go to image texture, and then click on new, and we'll call it, my texture, and just hit enter. Now if it's still pink, you might want to pop out of object mode, and then right back into texture paint mode, just so you can force the reloading. Now over here, you can zoom out a little bit and hit N, and pull over a little bit, and that way you get some good real estate. On the left, you have some tools that you can use, and on the right over here, color picker, and a whole bunch of options, including a texture, where you can actually create a different kind of brush, much like we did when we were doing our sculpting brushes. Now, I'm just going to pick a random color. Let's go with blue. There we go, that's kind of a nice lavendery blue, right? And over here on the right, I'm going to paint, just literally by left click dragging, and you can see right away that I'm painting in 3D, and if I really want to, I can go over here, and left click and drag, and you can see that I am painting in 2D. That is the coolest thing about blender. You can paint in both dimensions whenever you want to. So, I can come over here, and paint knowing that I'm going to cover all those seams that you usually would get if you were hand painting this inside something like photoshop. In fact, you can see this top little thing just kind of ends right at that edge, and then it begins over here on these edges, and that's because blender is calculating where everything should go, depending on how I'm painting it. Now sometimes, you get these really really hard edges, so you got to be really careful, because even though it paints really well, sometimes, you get a little bit of a weird edge. You can come up to your tool settings, and it'll mimic what you see over here on the left, so lets close that out, and bring this together a little bit more, real estate, and I can check out all of the amazing things I can do in here. Now honestly, we can do a whole chapter on the awesomeness of painting textures inside of blender, but rather than do that, I recommend you just get in there, and just start painting, and playing around, and see what interesting textures you can come up with.

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