Using Face Sets in Blender's Sculpt Mode (and why they're awesome)

[@Zaire82]

Ctrl + Lclick with the faceset brush while hovering over the faceset allows you to continue drawing it. Hovering over the undrawn part allows you to erase them.

[@suzannahnicholson2815]

Thank you very much! I'm new to Blender, and your explanation was the best so far in actually figuring out how to use face sets as masks for brushes. Cheers!

[@eggman6605]

Excellent tutorial. Had no idea how to use face sets/face maps.

[@garviegarzo6853]

THANK YOU very much. saved me many trips back to zbrush to use polygroups.

[@LawrenceAaronLuther]

Thank you very much. I've had some ideas I've wanted to try sculpting, but I always wondered how to keep parts separated (for example if I sculpted someone with their arms crossed). Now I have an idea of what to try out.

[@LightningdHeiwa]

great explaination and example to show how to use the tool

[@CGchurro]

wow that's amazing, thank you for shows us this amazing tool

[@anastasiashopine7808]

thank you so much for this well explained tut

[@weirdscix]

Really useful info, not something I've had much use for but still will be handy for fixing clothing

[@catalystzerova]

Oh my god I’ve been racking my brain figuring out how to fix those insersections while putting limbs back together from 3d scanned parts, this is so helpful!

[@WPguru]

It's such a cool feature, Face Sets were a real eye opener for me.

[@tiagopintoart]

Blender however still lacks a fundamental feature of Zbrush remesh which is to remesh a selected or masked area or face set. Masks, face sets or polygroups are used for that, as well as the auto-crease function or crease by polygroups feature that exists in Zbrush, there are workarounds but require a lot of clicks and in some cases modifiers.

[@jagz888]

Yes I was trying to find out a way to do it like zbrush, I really want to like blender but its still to slow for me to use for work.

[@subatoistormborn5499]

Vertex groups is another good selection method in conjunction with ctrl+ and ctrl -

[@toapyandfriends]

you really know your stuff!👊😀

[@lagunaciteko6134]

cool jay

[@artmakesascene]

#IfOnly (Babe, pig in the city- great movie) Nice tool and yes, anything daz integrated is always welcome. Thank you Jay and BlocksFire

[@hugagagePersonal]

잘 보고 갑니다.

[@falconiusazurius5572]

Just tied using it and ran into a serious flaw. How do you delete/remove/erase a face set? Because as far as I can see, once a face set is painted, it is there for ever.

[@falconiusazurius5572]

Found the solution: hold down CTRL and paint from unmarked faces into the face set.

[@Tramfabriek]

This way: Make sure nothing is hidden, then Face Sets> Face Set from Visible. It will all change to one colour.

[@VICLVP]

How to make face sets from image texture?

[@WPguru]

I don't think you can. You can paint them manually with the Face Set brushes in Sculpt Mode, or you can select UV Islands and use that selection through Edit Mode.

[@VICLVP]

Thanks!@@WPguru

[@chrisgreenwell3404]

Very kool , blender is just missing a way to save face sets.

[@jdwagman]

Blender sucks. I don't have, or cant find, the tool draw face that you are using. This seems to happen a lot. Sorry to rant, but I get so frustrated with this program. Is it there and not set up or did they take it out of some versions?

[@WPguru]

I hear you, Blender is a little overwhelming at times. It doesn't help that every version has a good chance that a feature is moved to a different location. It's like... a puzzle 😄 Face Sets have been introduced in Blender 2.83 I believe, so the latest version definitely has it. When you switch over to Sculpt Mode, press SHIFT+Space and you'll see a list of possible sculpting brushes. One of them is called Draw Face Sets (shortcut is SHIFT 8). Hope this helps hunt it down.

[@jdwagman]

@@WPguru Okay thank you. I will install the latest version and see what they have. BTW I just wanted to mention that you are very rare and gifted with your communications and abilities to teach and explain things.

[@binyaminbass]

@@jdwagman A really easy way is to make a selection in edit mode and then in sculpt mode, under Face Sets, choose Face Set from Edit Mode Selection. It's what I use all the time. So in this case, in edit mode, hover your cursor over the clothing you want to isolate, press L to Select Linked (selects all connected geometry, in this case, the shirt) then make it a face mask in Sculpt Mode and Bob's your uncle.

[@jdwagman]

@@binyaminbass thanks for the tips

[@binyaminbass]

Any time. As hard a blender can be, there is a massive community of users who are very helpful. That’s why I stuck with it.