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3D painting

3D painting - Maya Tutorial

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3D painting

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- [Instructor] One more way to place textures on surfaces is to actually just paint the textures themselves. And we can do this by using Maya's 3D Paint Tool. So, let's take a look at how this works. We've got 3D Paint under the Rendering menu set Now, before I do anything, I'm going to go ahead and turn off a layer here. We have two layers, one is for the ground itself, the other is for all the other stuff. So, I'm going to turn off the stuff and just leave the ground and go ahead and select that. And I'm going to go into Texturing, 3D Paint Tool and I want to make sure that I click the options here because we're going to be working with this quite a bit and this brings up the tool settings. Now, this allows me to float a brush above this surface but notice how there's a big, fat X in the middle of the brush. And that means we can't paint anything. And that's because we need to assign a texture map to that surface. So, we do this by going down to the bottom of our tool settings and…

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