this is amazing. thank you for explaining it so simply, it worked first try, that never happens.

I just stumbled upon this after trying to accomplish (somewhat successfully) the exact same thing in Gimp using gradients and a guassian blur. This is considerably easier and produces better results! Thanks again Grant, will be joining your patreon group given how your content is always just so good!

Incredibly helpful content on the blender alpha brush settings and use. There's not enough content or instruction tutorials on this tool that's easy to find. A couple, but not as much as low poly modeling. Thank you so much for this!

Thanks Grant! I'd been painstakingly hand drawing cracks and bumps into rocky surfaces for hours and wondered if this was possible. Time saver! Very well explained. Thanks mate.

This is way easier than I thought! I've put off making my own brushes because I thought it was going to be way outside the confines of my current skill level.

Dude you're the most breathtaking blender tutor. I like how did you explain your videos clear as crystal. I am so glad found your channel. Keep working dude :)

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

@ten-ub4xd

2 жыл бұрын

Breathtaking, very helpful

You are a life saver, my man ! :) I was looking for that exactly. Finely summarized the process. Thank you a lot :)

I think that's the best, fastest thing I've ever learned on Blender that has an insanely huge impact. Thank you so much

I've learned what an brush alpha is today! Thanks!!

thank you so much for this tutorial and the Materialize app, so much fun!

Thank You Grant. I am a newbie and your videos are helping me to improve my skills day by day.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Good to hear :)

Materialize has saved me soooooo much time making all the different maps from the diffuse map. I made a custom wood grain texture and then loaded it into materialize and was easily able to make my displacement, normal, metallic, roughness and Ambient Occlusion maps.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it's really great :)

Thank you for sharing your GREAT explaining.

Awesome tutorial! Thank you Grant. Also love being told of new software. Cheers :-)

One of my first Blender tutorial and this tuto still help me! very clear and revelant explaination. Thank you so Much;)

Excellent, thanks. I've been looking for this.

Oh man that's incredible. Being able to use any high quality height map is fucking rad. You, sir, are criminally under rated.

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Excellent video. You are fast, yet thorough so you don't waste my time like others do. Thank you and you've just got yourself another subscriber.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

I went to the beach to try it out, and it really works! Tricky thing is the get the lighting down for the images, but it is certainly better than spending a lot of time looking for free brushes.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

yes go on a grey day and it helps loads :)

This is amazing! Great tutorial

Super helpful man. Love your channel!

Nicely explained and very useful as usual. I already knew materialize and can tell is amazing for a free program, hopefully they will add something like that to blender in the future.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Yes hopefully :)

Thank you so much man! ❤🎮 Keep always making these incredible tutos! ❤🎮💡

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😃

Wow! You know everything, thank you for this great tutorial, xxx jess

I actually wanted to do this in Blender 2.79 a couple of weeks ago but Googling didn't help as I didn't know the correct terminology for my search, so I was grateful for the tutorial. Helpful, informative and well-paced as ever, thank you.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

You can certainly learn things from Mr. Abbitt, but he's so mellow that I often put him on when I'm going to sleep. XD

I'm finding that I have to pause and explore the menus to find out how you're doing things that you're doing but it's a really valuable tute. Thanks for putting it up.

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

I come to learn stuff I leave as if I was in a spa. Calm, straight to the point, amazing teacher. As always great tut! 5 stars

Thanks man i was needed that tutorial

Thanks Grant. Really useful series.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

thanks

Thanks for this video Grant, very helpful.

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Great tutorial, thanks!

Thanks, such an important video this. Something I always wanted to know.

Very helpful thanks!

You are always the best, very helpful video.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

This is so wrong channel I discovered sir..... Thank you a lottttttttttttt😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Tip: Also you can adjust Auto smooth under Stroke to refine the look

Thank you so much for this!

amazing, thank you so much!

you are amazing u are the best blender teacher

Very helpful, thanks!

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

thanks :)

That was great mate (Y) I don't know why but to create somethings in 2.8 is easier than the old version of Blender. We can reach easly the menus. Thanks for the video.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree

@kingkeyboard4556

4 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt found it

Awesome!!! Thanks!!

Since I'm a newbi, I don't think I am ready for that one yet, but it is nice to know something like that is available

3:03 Supertexture Node also works for this, if your computer is (like mine) incompatible with Windows software (materialize)

Please make more videos on this. Btw the video is very much helpful.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) What would you like to see and learn about?

@shubham5792

5 жыл бұрын

Rock models like of blender guru but without using rock essentials.

nice. thanks for this

Hi Grant! Another great tutorial. I have good news for people running Linux but still wish to use Materialize, since it does not have a Linux native version (yet). I managed to get it to run fine under Wine in Linux, just remember to install Microsoft Visual C++ runtime 2013 using Winetricks. (not the microsoft installer exe) Also install the "all fonts option" in winetricks or else you wont see any of the fonts in the UI. Thats it! Have fun with Materialize on Linux!

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

nice work well done :)

Well, this is what I call a game changer :O

Thank you so much

Thank you for sharing. How many times did you subdivided the sphere to get that kind of result? You didn´t use dyntopo so what´s the mesh resolution? Thanks. Great video.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Ctrl 5 so 5 subdivisions. Apply that. Then add multires at 3 subs to start

@activemotionpictures

5 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt 5! ok. well, thanks. sure thing.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

@@activemotionpictures sorry meant to say that was with the default cube

thanks brilliant

Hi Grant, I love this series - so easy and clear to follow. Is there an equivalent program to Materialize for Mac OS that you can recommend?

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

crazy bump might work for you?

@harryboteler5332

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for that. Works well and looks fairly straightforward to use. @@grabbitt

I recommend Krita over Gimp. Its also free to use.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

I think Krita is better at art type stuff but I imagine Gimp is better for image manipulation

You are my master... :)

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

This is great God 🙏🙌👏 like toutorial

Is there a way to make it so that the brush only affects the selected vertices of an object? I have an outline of a hand, and I want to make it look like an inflated glove. I need to use a brush to "puff it up", but I don't want the brush to affect the outline of the hand.

@TheStickofWar

Жыл бұрын

anyone reading this in a few years time, it is the job for a mask.

Thanks for the shoutout! just saw this lol

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

no problem

great tutorial!!! is this the same process for making grease pencil texture brushes??

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

Haven't used it much yet. Plan on doing that more next year

Got stuck at 1:42 how exactly do you pull out another brush tab? Also, two questions: Does doing this create a duplicate copy of the draw brush, would I need to cycle through textures if I wanted to switch to a different one? Say if the surface of where I want to apply the texture is curved, would said texture follow the curvature? EDIT: got it to work, but is there a way to make the texture continuous rather than doing it one spot by one spot?

Thanks for the video, it has helped me quickly surface texture I had started in Blender, as my first full project in Blender. I was wondering, what could be done (or should be done) if a texture added starts showing "borders" as well as the texture on the surface of the sculpt? Is this a size, quality of image or other issue I don't know about? Thanks.

@grabbitt

Жыл бұрын

Change your brush curve

thank you. so can this be exported for 3d printing and the texture will show up on the exported model?

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

yes

thank you...

Anyway to define an alpha mid grey that darker parts push into and light parts pop out the surface?

I got the tutorial on a 60" screen, and Blender on the desktop screen, and when I increased that resolution up 5X everything froze. Other than that, GREAT Tutorial.

Is there any way to apply color as poly paint or texture paint from the same image at the same time?

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

not that i know of. It would be lovely though :)

I know its pretty old, but this seems to be the video that helped me the most. Is this similar to making a texture paint brush ?

@grabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

I've always wondered. Is there a way to downscale the brush texture itself. Say I want a pore texture, but when I'm pulling the brush out, it appears super big when I want the pores to be small. Is there anyway to make that happen?

@grabbitt

8 ай бұрын

Kind of I guess. But ti's better to have a separate alpha texture

so, is it safe to say, what can be done instead in the course of battling the residue effect, is to make initial height map better quality, then in photo editing app blur it slightly more than you did?

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Yes exactly I probably should have made that a bit clearer

i have a question about materialize, how do i install properly, it seems like just extracting activates it, is it ok too extract it then drag it too my desktop and open it from there fine? its a weird install I'm confused. also I'm kind of worried about the 8bit photo's thing, i only have affinity photo do you think i can use affinity too upscale 8bit too 32 bit like you said? other than that really helpful video thank you.

@grabbitt

Жыл бұрын

It's been a while since I've used it so I'm not sure

Is that method applicable to sculpting human hair and giving fine details? And what can you suggest for creating the material and texture for hair ? Is there an easy way such as this approach? I currently use stencil and try to mimick the natural flow of textures via bumps in shader mode of blender. But couldn't get natural looking results.

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

Very tough to sculpt hair really

1:32 bruh

@theoldsarcasticpineapple

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine

@josephlobb2216

3 жыл бұрын

@@theoldsarcasticpineapple IKR?!? What computer he using? Skynet?? F.R.I.D.A.Y. OS?

@theoldsarcasticpineapple

3 жыл бұрын

@@josephlobb2216 he is using the earth as his computer

I’m looking for something that will allow me to add patterns and textures to my models for 3D printing. Will these textures export in an stl?

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

yes on very high poly meshes

How did you make a new panel? I tried the same way you did but no luck.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

just grab the corner maybe you have a bug

Can the brush also be used as a texture within the texture painting tab in Blender as well?

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

not sure what you are asking but yes i talk about this in stencils

Hello Grant, first of all thank you for the good tutorial. I have a little problem, maybe you can help me. As soon as I go to "Multires" and then Subdivde, then square edges become round. Can I somehow prevent that they become round? I have built a column, and would like to decorate it this way, but now it is no longer a column, but an egg-like object. :D

@grabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

Choose simple as sub division method

are you ever meant to apply the multires mod? or is it best just to never apply it - my mac runs very slow when i use it, so scared to crash and lose it all if i apply it, great content brother! thank you

@grabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

There is no reason to apply it.

How can a texture be added to a flat plane using an anchored brush? Do you have a video on this?

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

it's exactly the same but it must have enough faces to make the topology

This looks great! Unfortunately my windows PC is crap. My Mac is far superior. I guess I'll have to switch between the two for the results I need

Hello Grant, is it possible to make a normal map image as a brush alpha in Blender? thanks :)

@grabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Hi Grant, thank you for your videos. Is there a MAC alternative to Materialize? Cheers.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

I dont know sorry

@sandragreaney2464

5 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt thanks for replying anyway. Cheers :)

@pdhm7521

4 жыл бұрын

@@sandragreaney2464 Sorry for the delay, but you can use CrazyBump

Hello Quick question ❓ What you think about Sony FE 90mm f/2.8 STF GM OSS Lens is good for take pictures and Creating Texture? My camera is A7R III.

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that will be excellent :)

@LaFaisal

5 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt Thank you 🙏🏻🌹

If im making a game asset or character ,is it better to us it while sculpting or after retopo ?

@grabbitt

3 жыл бұрын

You use this before most of the time

@hicham171

3 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt thanks !!!✌

Any alternative to materialise for Mac?

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

not sure :(

Import export import export import export ok lets start sculpting. I got older watching this, (I am gonna do it tho!)

what happens if you start with a 32 bit image before you use materialize? Does the generated image stay at 32 bits?

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

Good question - not idea

i did not know materialize was a thing until today

one question; can I rotate the alpha in blender sculpt mode?

@grabbitt

3 жыл бұрын

If you put it on random yes

Can i use the same method for texture painting?

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

i've not actually tried. Good question

hey, another amazing video! I was wondering if you have time and knowlege, could you try to recreate any scene from spider man into the spider verse, I especially liked the artstyle of the movie, so maybe someone like you can replicate it in blender, just trying to figure out if its possible, much thanks!

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

The movie looks amazing. I'll look into it a bit and see if i can come up with anything :)

my PC dies above 1m vertices is there another way use the bumb maps in blender still with high resolution on the detail ?

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

only painted on as a bump map

@MrVausta

4 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt thank u for the quick answer, ill find another way to handle the verts than maybe less detail or something :)

great tutorial but when I try this it acts like a normal brush so it shows as I move the brush across the mesh, not like a stamp that stays in place and gets more refined as you drag out like yours is doing. what am I missing? I'm using 2.90 if that makes a difference.

@grabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

Are you using the anchor stroke method

@jokerrabit

2 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt yes ty that worked. one more question how would I make this so it makes it more like a stamp? so all I have to do is click once and have a pattern because like it is it wont work for screensand things like that.

@grabbitt

2 жыл бұрын

@@jokerrabit try the dot stroke method

Before I could do this but now even if I put the texture nothing happens can you help me?

@grabbitt

3 жыл бұрын

have you got enough verts

Why it doesn't working on my blender ver. 2.79??? Can you explain it? Or maybe there's a different way to do on blender ver. 2.79??

@grabbitt

5 жыл бұрын

pretty mush same method for 2.79. Perhaps it's worth you trying 2.8 :)

How can one texture paint with a jpg brush with alpha background can't seem to get it to work want to use rake but can't invert the brush

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

JPEGs don't have alphas

@dontusedontuse8273

4 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt sorry mean transparent want to use psd brush in jpeg to import in blender to texture paint but does not work as expected

I see you didn't retopologize. If I wanted to apply some sort of texture say, to a face I sculpted, could I just go ahead and use this technique or would I have to still retopologize.

@grabbitt

Жыл бұрын

It's not quite that simple but look up the multiresoultin modifier

Im sending this message to anyone who may have a clue , I am trying to get some kitbash files into blender and it cannot get hold of them although it can find them ,Ive put them in various places but it will not open the folder , it goes to the top of the tree but no further , I dont know how to link or append in the library . The folder is obj not anything strange ,if you can suggest anything please tell me . thanks

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

obj you will need to file import not append

Could I do this with scales on a dinosaur?

@grabbitt

Жыл бұрын

yes

Hye, I already put the textures but why it did not appear on my item. Can you help me? I already put in on anchored btw.

@grabbitt

4 жыл бұрын

Difficult to say

@changlixstraykidzz3844

4 жыл бұрын

@@grabbitt its Okay i already found the solution. Thank you 😄