BLENDER: Stencil Decals

[@savixchase88]

I was struggling so much trying to put a black stencil onto an object and no channel had talked about the alpha value on the image we create in blender. You're a lifesaver

[@zerobio]

Hey awesome!

[@oliveyeah111]

These shorts tutorials are really handful thanks for the tips!

[@zerobio]

Great. Will do more.

[@jeffdavies2824]

I keep coming back to this same tutorial because I alwasy forget some setting, lol! Thanks for making this!

[@zerobio]

No problem and good luck

[@thesenate4536]

The most underrated channel!! Love your videos. Keep up the good work!!

[@zerobio]

Thanks a lot!

[@nkbabusbi9103]

Thanq for sharing the tutorial at the right moment. I was trying to apply stencil on ceramic glossy textile. Some how I applied but in a very difficult way. Thanq very much. Keep uploading tutorials.

[@zerobio]

Glad to hear this was helpful. I pretty much always use Substance Painter for most of this now but hope there is still some useful videos for you on my channel.

[@2011manbeast]

Oh my god. I've been trying to use Decal Machine to create my own decals, but it's incredibly difficult, and can be expensive to get pre-made decal packs. Thanks to you, I can texture paint my own images.

[@zerobio]

That's great! Good luck 👍

[@Geoffroxx]

@@zerobio I noticed You didn't give a Straight answer, This amounts to Industry Protection

[@zerobio]

@@Geoffroxx that's not your concern here. If you want to ask a question to me specifically, talk to me. Otherwise take your attitude somewhere else.

[@CPit101]

You taught this very well, and helped me out. Well done!

[@zerobio]

I'm so glad you think so!

[@wmh9783]

dude !! this was so freakin helpful!! Im working on a project and I was having such a hard time getting this effect (I'm really new to blender). This tutorial was super straight to the point and easy to follow. Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!!

[@zerobio]

Hey thats great! I'm really glad this was useful. Many ways to achieve results. Good luck

[@Geoffroxx]

@@zerobio Another non straight answer.

[@Geoffroxx]

Stencil Paint should have been there in 2.79 or NOT AT ALL

[@zerobio]

@@Geoffroxx what is that supposed to mean

[@Zephyrleohc]

Wow! This is the most convenient way to put decals on my cart, Thank u for this tutorial!

[@zerobio]

Thanks for the comment and good luck!

[@peteradami7544]

You just saved my life. Thank you for this video!

[@zerobio]

Awesome! Happy to help.

[@ashhaf63]

Excellent Tutorial

[@zerobio]

Thanks!

[@StevenDevYT]

Thank you for this tutorial! It helped in making a helmet for my game!

[@zerobio]

Glad to hear that!

[@kevvzaviation]

YES SIR YES SIR! ZEROBIO STEADY AND STRONG! PUMPING OUT THOSE VIDEOS :))

[@zerobio]

Hehe trying to

[@stanniskins]

Thank you for the video helped a lot! I really liked your calm and depp voice xD

[@zerobio]

I'm so glad. And thank u for the kind comment.

[@Highlight_22]

Great tutorial, thanks💫

[@V3GAS4CE]

Awesome. Exactly what I needed!

[@zerobio]

Glad it helped!

[@rekiallard77]

Nice for Image Aspect

[@hanneshuber3d]

Awesome, thank you!!

[@zerobio]

My pleasure 🙏

[@funnytvshow302]

love your channel and learning a lot from it

[@zerobio]

Hey that's great. Thanks for letting me know.

[@RandyRiley]

This helped me out thanks

[@zerobio]

Thats great! Thanks for telling me.

[@kevinarce4232]

Thanks a lot !!!! Is vert useful

[@zerobio]

Glad to help

[@tom120ali]

Very helpful, thanks a lot!

[@zerobio]

My pleasure, Tom.

[@mch43856]

amazing!!

[@zerobio]

Thanks very much

[@naeembabakheil]

v good.. keep making nice and easy stuff.....+1

[@zerobio]

Thanks. Yes I will when I can.

[@Zamir321]

Zerobio for president! Make blender great again!

[@zerobio]

Lol, thank you!

[@caribbeanchild]

Ahahahhah. Good one.

[@OrkhanJulfa]

Thank you very much!

[@zerobio]

Sure thing! :)

[@TheIwatt1]

Awesome! Thank you

[@zerobio]

Sure thing! :)

[@андрейандреев-в5н7ь]

👍

[@zerobio]

@@андрейандреев-в5н7ь thanks

[@davidbernal8881]

Thank you! very curious what you think is the best way to add the decals/texture paint without having perspective distortion? When you paint the radio active symbol on the orthographical view it ends up being a bit stretched on the perspective, right? So curious of your approach for not having this distortion. Thanks again and amazing channel!

[@zerobio]

Thanks David. I haven't used this method for so long and now rely pretty much only on Substance Painter so I'm not in the best position to help out with this method other than suggesting you have a very good model, a good unwrap and high resolution decal. Maybe try moving it around and seeing if the distortion is reduced in a slightly different position. Good luck and hope you get some decent results.

[@davidbernal8881]

@@zerobio Thank you! Found a solution in case you or anybody finds useful. With the shortcut shift+numpad#7 the camera view is framed straight on the selected face. What seems to cause the distortion is not painting straight on, so this puts you in the exact position to paint "orthographically" so to speak, eliminating any warping or having to blindly move the camera to find the right perspective.

[@zerobio]

@David Bernal excellent! Great job solving that

[@slash.m.b]

Thanks

[@intelligence-8007]

Thank U sooo much!!!

[@zerobio]

My pleasure 🙏

[@elizabethlepizhills2057]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

[@zerobio]

Sure thing. Hope it helps

[@fullyleaded]

You need to save the images in the shader editor otherwise they will be lost when you close the file.

[@zerobio]

Yes!! :)

[@Laruedadelafortuna01]

Hello... I have a question, why when I use stencil, when painting the figure on the mesh, it is also painted mixed with the color of the brush?, the figure is painted opaque, I dont understand 🤔

[@funnytvshow302]

But whenever I'm connecting with mix shader my blender crashes...can you tell me what the problem is 😔 🙏

[@Leevy27]

Hey my friend. Nice short tutorial. Can I give you a challenge? What's about used and worn decals? How to accomplish that?

[@zerobio]

Yes, will do some damage for decals soon.

[@kevinarce4232]

This work awesome but you know how to bake all this texture arrangement ? 😮

[@zerobio]

It does work well and you can bake but I really use substance painter so not doing things this way, really.

[@Origamity]

thx bro !

[@zerobio]

Absolutely, my pleasure.

[@jphugin]

So er... IDK what I am doing or what I am doing wrong but: I am trying to add a logo onto a bat and followed every step until 4:22 . At that point I got confused. I draged this texture where I wanted to be and at the first time (when you said you want to have it on both sides) I didn´t click on symetry x. It didn´t work (also I didn´t know what you pressed or what you did). Then I pressed on symetry x because I thought it would help and did every thing until you drew over the logo. Didn´t work (also again didn´t know what you pressed or did at this one moment) can someone help me out?

[@zerobio]

I will try to write you back later today. Busy right now but I want to try and help. Just to clarify, are you trying to get the decal on both sides? Is that what is messed up or was it something else?

[@jphugin]

@@zerobio Thanks for helping. I watched a different video about it and found out that those shader blocks weren't connected correctly and somehow after I connected them how they were supposed to be the logo was correct. So far so good. XD. Now (because I want a logo on a bat) it is a bit disturded. But I saw a different comment about that earlier in this commentsection but I didn't read it yet because I am not at home. Thanks for helping😁

[@zerobio]

@@jphugin great! Don't forget that your logo may need to be subdivided for it to wrap around a curved object. And shrink-wrap may not be the best option. It may be better to add the logo to the uv's. Anyhow let me know if you need more help and good luck!

[@jphugin]

@@zerobio oh ok thank you😅👍

[@zerobio]

@@jphugin sure thing

[@Kenfenit]

Good tutorial, but you killed me the way you kept saying "deckle" instead of "dee-cal" 🤣

[@zerobio]

Yeah, here in Canada I mostly hear "deckle". Dee-cal sounds funny to me :)

[@realms_of_reality]

Excellent. I'll put this into action. I followed your platform guide also. I'm new to blender myself so just getting the hang of it. Do you take video requests?

[@zerobio]

Great to hear and good luck! I do take requests although I'm not always able to do them due to my busy schedule and limited skills so keep that in mind but feel free to send me an idea.

[@realms_of_reality]

@@zerobio cheers and thanks for the reply. I like making UFO's and other flying vehicles. But they're always in the sky so to speak. How would I go about designing landing gear for ships.

[@D4mations]

Deeeeeeeeee caaaaaaallllll

[@zerobio]

That's riiiiiiiight

[@pum2]

can i rotate the stencil decal? if i can how do i do it?

[@sp3zyy]

How did u paint it? Mine doesn't seem to work?

[@zerobio]

As far as I recall, I just used materials in blender. If you are unable to see your decal itself, we may have to check your nodes. Note that you will have to be in LookDev or Render mode to see the materials. Hope you can get it to work. Good luck.

[@sp3zyy]

@@zerobio Thanks It works now.

[@zerobio]

@@sp3zyy excellent!!

[@sp3zyy]

@@zerobio uh another problem if u mind helping me out.So I wanted to paint a decal on a car but turned out it just blurrs out like it also shows triangles some coloured some not from the decal on the car body.

[@zerobio]

@@sp3zyy I'm not exactly sure what you are seeing but I will suggest that the decal probably needs to be more subdivided in order to wrap around a slightly curved surface. If that is the case, bring it in as "image as plane" and manually subdivide it a lot and see how shrink-wrap works.

[@greysongladney4403]

Deeee cal

[@bentontramell]

Right!!!

[@jordanwright5795]

Yep

[@zerobio]

Not in Canada ... deckle :)

[@caribbeanchild]

Thanks... nice and short... but It's distorted on the curved surface. How do we get un-distorted decals?

[@zerobio]

Use high resolution png. Best we can do at this point, I think. Ok, you could try improving the uv for the surface u want the decal on. Make sure its nice and square. Also, make sure to click image aspect ratio. Or you might have more luck with substance painter and decals

[@speedasian]

I'm still a beginner so I may be mistaken, but I think it's also a bit distorted because of the curvature of the helmet. The pink skull isn't really distorted because it's on a flatter surface, but the radioactive symbol is. It could help to rotate the viewport so you're looking directly at the helmet from the angle it'll be viewed from, but you'll have to play around with the sizing and whatnot.

[@zerobio]

@@speedasian It is difficult to put a flat decal on a curved surface. Another ways is to use the "shrinkwrap" modifier after subdividing the decal image quite a bit. I often use shrinkwrap but wanted to show a different method here.

[@zerobio]

Would you mind sending me a screenshot of your model with the decal to [e-mail] so I can see exactly how distorted it is? I will continue to work on these decal videos, I think, because of issues like this. There are other methods that may work better as well as some modifications to this method so send me an image and I will keep at this for you guys.

[@zerobio]

Ok, I am going to do a video next using shrinkwrap. It works much better for this kind of decal with no distortion. Hang on until tonight and I will make that for you.

[@ESkull885]

Merci. Un sujet un peu flou pour moi en ce qui concerne blender. Mais la texture radioactif est étirée 😕

[@zerobio]

You're welcome. Sorry I don't know what you said though

[@archiplanservices3746]

@@zerobio He says that the radioactive decal is stretched for his model when he replicate your steps. Cheers

[@ESkull885]

The radioactive decal is distorted, is there a way to solve this problem?

[@archiplanservices3746]

@@ESkull885 you had to ask in english straight away then!

[@zerobio]

@@archiplanservices3746 Thanks. I will work on another video with more UV manipulation and this may help. Otherwise, using the shrinkwrap modifier after subdividing the decal image may work better for some people. I do that frequently but this video is about texture painting and stencil. Also, it is important to make sure you click the image aspect ratio before applying. This may be the distortion that is being observed. It's also important to use a high resolution decal. Finally, there are other methods to apply an image to a model and I may consider making videos about those as well to be complete and they may be useful in certain cases.

[@saidyousuf493]

Mountain dew hahaha