Hey All!
I tried the drag rectangle with the alpha I want to use as a mask. question, is there a way to preciisely move the mask around until it is placed exactly where I want it?
thanks for any help
while still holding ctrl hold space
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Thanks for the reply. It did not seem to work, it just scrolled around the canvas. I’m trying to get a pattern(mask) precisely onto a raised area. I can get it almost there but I need to nudge and resize the mask in small increments.
Any other help would be appreciated!
It would be helpful to get some kind of look at what you want to do.
You can move and scale a patterened mask prior to placing it. While holding down CTRL, assign a DragRect stroke type to the masking tool and the desried alpha. You must then start drawing the mask on empty canvas while holding Ctrl, not on the mesh itself. You can then move the mask around by holding Space bar after the mask is drawn out, and resize it interactively.
You can’t move a patterned mask in real time once it’s applied, but what is the masking for? To create some sort of raised pattern?
If so, it sounds like Projection Master is what you want. Not for masking , but to precisely position that pattern as an alpha. Face the raised surface you’re trying to position it on parallel to the screen plane, enter projection master in deformation mode, assign that pattern as an alpha to the brush, and assign a DragRect stroke type. You can then draw out that pattern, and before making any other action that would “commit” the stroke, adjust its position with the move, scale , and rotate buttons on the top shelf, which will let you position it exactly, and even stretch to fit.
If it’s really masking you need, and you can’t position it accurately enough in real time, you can use PM to apply apply the pattern as polypaint using the above method, and then assign that color as a mask my using “mask by intensity” in the masking palette.
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Great tip! Thanks very much!!!