Getting Started with Mask Tools in Blender

In this video we'll go over the basics of using the advanced texturing add-on Mask Tools for Blender. Available now on the Blender Market. Get it here: blendermarket....

[@LoremIpsum497]

one thing i appreciate in your tutorials is your tempo, i'm not having to slow youtubes playback speed to .5 just to have the time to follow along

[@musashidanmcgrath]

Tip for displacement - turn on experimental in Cycles and utilise adaptive render time subdivision. No need for ridiculously dense geometry in the scene. I've tested Blender's adaptive displacement directly against Arnold in 3dsMax and it gives equal results.

[@seifermations2482]

yes

[@uwirl4338]

Thank you so much for making this, seriously. I love Substance Painter but I love even more not having to open it all the time to make the simplest iterations on my texture work.

[@WaywardArtCompany]

I agree! I don't consider myself to be a lazy artist, but I get annoyed if I have to import an object into another software just for a simple task.

[@mathewfrank8638]

i dont mean to be so off topic but does anybody know a method to log back into an instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the password. I love any help you can give me!

[@jonlampel]

This is my first time seeing Mask Tools in action. Really nice work! It looks incredibly useful.

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Jonathan Lampel Thanks! Love getting feedback from the pros. 😊

[@Hashimo]

So happy I bought it yesterday. Gonna have some fun with it now. Would love to have some more tutorials. Thanks for all your work, really worth the money.

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Thanks so much! I'm looking forward to making more tutorials soon. Already have a few ideas.

[@jamarch3982]

The best part of this tutorial is when you explain baking :) Because I've watched, like, a few douzen tutorials on baking in Blender. NEITHER said that you cound put the number of samples down to 1 or that whatever is connected to the viewer node will be baked. NEITHER. It took me half an hour to bake ONE TEXTURE. Maybe that's why people find baking so intimidating. Because there are no good tutorials. Btw, I started learing 3D (and Blender in particular) with the vid where you model a house. Not the Victorian one :) I didn't undestand anything and I wondered if it's possible to master all this at all. It seemed unlikely. Now I know a few things about 3D modeling and can model a house myself. But that vid will foreever stay in my heart because I used it to measure my knowledge and my skill :) Thank you.

[@warrenography]

This is not only super useful and practical, but it is also fun to use and experiment with. It is a marvel in the true sense of the word!

[@JohnSmith-rn3vl]

Love this plugin. Its really cool for decals and I found it awesome for hard surface texturing. But I did notice some performance problems and had to wait for 10 seconds when painting sometimes in eevee. I hope you keep working on this... it has so much potential.

[@jeffg4686]

Sickness. I haven't yet gone on my 2.8 addon buying spree, but when I do, this will be the first one for certain. Then hops, boxcutter, and decal machine.

[@jeffg4686]

Just wanted to add an additional note. Would be good to package up some training videos with the add-on. Learning the techniques is often so much more important than learning the tool(s). Just my $0.02.

[@WaywardArtCompany]

@@jeffg4686 I've considered that. Thanks for confirming it's a good idea. I'll add something in the next update. Cheers!

[@clownbaby7224]

I just bought this addon today and it's amazing. Best addon for blender to be honest, so useful.

[@CSDigitalArts]

Buying it today! I can't wait to start using it. It honestly looks more comfortable to navigate than what I've seen of SP.

[@hman8660]

I been follow u since the flying ufo thing. Then & now I still think u're a genius Michael!

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Wow, what a nice thing to say! I'm truly grateful. :)

[@samimo2319]

I bought this Add on and its one of the best Add-ons for Bender!! great work! Please more Tutorial like this.

[@bunnybreaker]

The decision of whether to buy Layer Painter or Bpainter just got harder. Thanks, I think 😁

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Decisions, decisions... Haha

[@드빌-s5d]

which one did you buy?

[@bunnybreaker]

@@드빌-s5d I ended up getting Layer Painter, because I liked the look of the interface. Truth is I haven't used it enough to properly review it. No complaints so far for what it's worth.

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Thanks for the video. Great job. It is true that it requires some learning curve, but it is worth it, no doubt.

[@eznosnopes5276]

What kind of sorcery is this?

[@haronimageengine6508]

Thank you. Nice and easy paint tu all project 👍👍👍👍

[@ma.ysabelleung7739]

ive been searching how to do these things! apparently its quite difficult or complicated without this add on! cant wait to buy it

[@danielsisk2345]

That was exactly the kinda tut I been waiting for, Great Job.

[@nv7287]

Baking! :) 27:32 blender will bake anything that's plugged directly into a viewer node so if I use ctrl shift right click on the mask base node, it will add the material color to the viewer node

[@michaelsmusicinstruments9980]

i love the way blender is going

[@sablesanctum]

This add-on is unbelievable!!!

[@MichaelFlynn0]

bloody hell...thats incredible.

[@maniacarta9648]

Does this Addon work for 2.82 and 2.83 if it is i will buy it later. Without forgetting thank you for your hardwork and your clear explanation for this amazing texturing tool in blender

[@Take27Ltd]

Superb tutorial. Just bought Mask Tools - outstanding.

[@thatcgiguy2268]

Bro, I love this addon. You should make a video on 50 things you can do in Mask Tools, or something like that

[@321357w]

Brilliant stuff and more than happy to pass the video link on.

[@fortymileswest]

Great video. What is the browser you are using at the bottom for textures?

[@syedrizvi6408]

WOW. You are doing a great job. keep it up please. Greart video. Fantastic. I hope it works just like masking in photoshop.

[@ep8778]

MANYTHANKS. This tutorial is really amazing ! Very useful !

[@igordeletic4890]

Nice video, I did purchase this and I don`t regret it. I do have a question, would this object still be considered as high geometry for game asset? Can all the information be used on the low poly object. Like when we bake from high poly sculpt to low poly. Maybe make a video of doing game ready object?

[@Twoface227]

This is (at the moment) so unbelievably beyond me. I have much to learn still I see.

[@gameginger5529]

glad i found this channel

[@wowersdh1]

blender is game changer man!!

[@matthewwoodbridge7795]

The add-on looks great! Was wondering if there is any possibility of compatibility with the Extreme PBR add-on?

[@trygvij1604]

Great question! I'm going to start texture painting stuff more now and I've got both addons but haven't touched either of them. Did you figure anything out? I'd probably try and unzip extreme pbr and open its library through mask tools.

[@CarlosX3D]

I am loving this add on and its removed my desire to give a tonne of money to Adobe. Could really do with an in depth tutorial on how to use all of its features though as I feel im not unlocking its full potential. Great work and looking forward to seeing how far you can take it! :-)

[@dr.kfamily7239]

Verry good. thank you.

[@ersogcho]

Im planning to buy this add on but im starting with blender and there's not a good video where you explain in detail ..like how to load the textures, the normals, the displacements and how to conect all that.

[@revotiva]

So cool!

[@ppaayyaamm2]

Bravo // Very Nice work is your mask tools +100

[@ppaayyaamm2]

Wow ..finally thanks for Backing tips ..

[@dougaldhendrick3497]

Wow, a great tutorial!!!

[@ArtAntiDe]

It's probably not possible, but... It would be really cool if this could work in tandem with the Extreme PBR plugin. So... just drag-&-dropping the materials from the ExtremePBR library instead of selecting every map by itself... Still amazing, exactly what I was looking for :)

[@ArtAntiDe]

As a workaround it's totally possible to add ExtremePBR Materials as new material to an object, copy-paste-group the nodes and plug them into a Mask-Tools-Chain. 💪

[@musashidanmcgrath]

You are doing absolutely fantastic work with this, my friend. It's next on my list after Decal Machine. Have you considered tying this in with something like BPainter 2.0?

[@WaywardArtCompany]

I'd really love that, but there are no plans for it at the moment. I do believe it'll keep getting better and better, so who knows. Anything is possible. :)

[@johnlannikk2701]

Hope your keeping safe!

[@garen591]

This is really a great tool for blender! I'm just curious.. Are you a technical artist before this?

[@Artholic100]

Bought addon not a long ago. Just here wondering how I update it? My nodes seems to look different.

[@Artholic100]

Found out how :D Bought it from Blendermarket so from receipt I was able to download the new version.

[@blenderzone5446]

nice!

[@tinvojnovic6021]

never did much around materials and texturing, but fuck, this is dope

[@RajeshKumar-oj1xw]

Hey thanks for your wonderful addon...Do you plan to upgrade your addon for blender 2.90+ .Also can make hand-painted skin texture using mask tools....Any video tutorial will be of great help....I am recently started my journey with Blender and I want to do handpainting of textures which will make me understand art better....Also I have seen great artists like Cris Costa, Ian Spriggs not using scanned textures....So my priorities are better sculpting and hand painting....

[@Studio-df7ge]

How can you see the edges of the model the texture paint window? Like where you hover over at 13:21

[@defdac]

Instant buy. Noob question: @3:58 you scale on both X and Y axis at the same time. How?

[@defdac]

I can answer my own question. You left click on the X-value and while holding down the button you drag down - making both values selected and then drag left/right to change both values at the same time.

[@DilophoMS]

@@defdac You can press s + shift z to exclude z from scaling.

[@defdac]

@@DilophoMSthanks!

[@maythangreact]

thanks for the tutorial mbtw how did you have the texture browsers at the bottom?

[@Atezian]

From my initial impression it seems like this is a bit of substance painter. Being able to paint over and combine together lots of textures without there being an obvious seem. Really curious. I think i might pick this plugin up if it supports 2.9

[@kwynintelligence435]

Boahh, great tutorial. I think it is a long way to get to this skills

[@tinvojnovic6021]

question: in the very last step when you're applying all the baked maps, why dont you plug the displacement map through the shader editor? what's the difference between applying it through the modifier and applying it through shader editor?

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Material displacement doesn't work in EEVEE. So, if you want to view it in realtime, then you need to add it as a modifier.

[@larim485]

Looks like a buy once 2.91 properly supported.

[@sebbosebbo9794]

WoW absolute amazing ..Genius..thx...real good to.ol..for novice like me I would preciate a good learning course in the B.market to dive deeper .Wfg Seb.R.

[@andymvisuals]

Does it work properly with Blender 2.9x?

[@robertromero7900]

I've purchase this about a month ago and it doesn't have the updated content. Do I need to repurchase it?

[@bunnybreaker]

Probably just need to download the latest version from blendermarket (my account -> my orders).

[@robertromero7900]

I didnt make an account though

[@chrisbrimacombe]

When I paint with the Mask tool in Sculpt mode, nothing shows up. The Mask Overlay is turned on. It's the same with Subdivision Surface applied or not. ... Upgraded from 3.2.1 to 3.6.2 and that fixed it. Bug in the system.

[@ThomasHartStudios]

should learn this or B painter ?

[@agnaldoartistartiaga2806]

Hello! I am very, very interested to buy your product. However my biggest concerned is to know if you have some tutorial offered with it, because presentations are very nice, but when it comes to the pedagogy and the right methodology for working, it's not the same at all!

[@blendertutorial4279]

excelente

[@longbeachnyko]

Hi I'm Working on the Masked tools crate tutoral When I do the metal trim around the crate , I get some of the wood texture coming through into the metal trim I think I have the same settings as you. Any Idea what i'm dooing wrong Thanks

[@JulesL_82]

Amazing;)

[@MaxMarklund]

Love this product! Thank you so much! A question tho. I can't get the "Erase Mask" to work in Eeve. Even tho I have an image in the image texture everything gets pink as if some texture is missing. But it works in cycles! Any guess why?

[@tomoyaogawa4485]

I have a same problem too. But I think depends on spec of your computer, if you add many image textures or have complex node tree, evee doesn’t work at all. Only way I found to get around this problem is by disconnecting some of the image texture or press M to mute or press shift+left click ( node wrangler) to focus on each map one by one.

[@BoomShaqaLaqa]

so i bought the Mask tool addon, but everytime i click the "Add shader" it just completely crashes blender, why is this and how do i "fix" it ?

[@gavwyatt5314]

How long till in-depth tut please

[@WaywardArtCompany]

More tutorials coming soon!

[@gavwyatt5314]

@@WaywardArtCompany Thanks. I see a tut on one of the blender artists, channel where he would be using substance painter and told him he should be using product like yours that promote the power of blender

[@leatherandpoemscharmyman5774]

hey there, any way to create edge or cavity map with not using any texture? thx

[@ahmadtakhimi6839]

Hi. Does it comes with the brush textures?

[@Dennisjay9]

Can this work flow help with characters? Skin, cloth, hair ect

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Non-organic stuff like cloth, sure, but not so much hair. Unless its NPR hand-painted style.

[@abdulrazakck]

This working well ..?

[@MetalGearMk3]

I just bought it but can't install it to Blender 2.82.5 :( Also won't install to 2.81. EDIT: the dev helped me out with the issue. Install the mask tool zip inside the zip, problem solved.

[@patrickmueller5272]

Does anybody know, if this will be released for blender 2.9?

[@hda8209]

I can't see any option for "Preset" in my Mask tools tab, it only allows me to "add shader" and that's it.

[@2011manbeast]

It doesn't seem to want to load in 2.82

[@blendershots]

Bro i think it didn't work fine in 2.82?... are u getting the same problem ??

[@2011manbeast]

@@blendershots Yes I am

[@blendershots]

@@2011manbeast i have installed it all correctly... it's showing in shader editor.... but i m unable to get the effective results.... it looks like doing nothing

[@afrosymphony8207]

does this work with eevee plus how intense is it on a system cause i am just rendering with an i7 gpu nd mx250..very lowend stuff

[@ValeGoG]

Очень круто :)

[@donovanbaine8842]

could u tell me plz the name of that worn metal texture

[@hookflash699]

Is this addon still being developed? I've heard that it has issues with Blender 2.9.x

[@2011manbeast]

I just bought it, and it seems that the addon has been modified (updated?), but the documentation is outdated. I could be wrong, but the panel (when hitting the "N" button) doesn';t have a drop down menu now, just thumbnails of the type of masks you can use.

[@mohameddawood1720]

is anyone experiencing performance issues ? blender freezes after every connected/disconnected socket for like 6 sec

[@ziadmoghazy6689]

for some reason the mask only works with evee

[@nv7287]

CTRL+SHIFT+Right-click doesn't work for me, (I have mac/bootcamp, maybe that is why?)Ctrl+Shift+Left-Click on the node and it will connect to the viewer node. If no viewer exists, it will create one. blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23728/how-to-connect-nodes-very-fast-using-shortcut

[@10yearslater_]

What the fuck this is amazing!

[@glassmarble996]

no regional prices for third world countries in blendermarket.

[@unitedsparks719]

Am I right you just painted a treasure chest out of a primitive cube without modeling

[@noobcitiey2442]

If you do not have substance painter this is add on this is for you.

[@abdulrazakck]

looking great , but am not sure

[@pablo.zgobar]

i love your tool its really awsome buts its really high price i'm starter :/

[@DiHandUkr]

ofcources bad design BUT good materials - as men whu work as LookDev - i understend it - realy not bad in out

[@jimmy-k6770]

Guys anyone tried it , if yes please reply 😟

[@matka5130]

Why don't you make this default part of Blender? Why do we need paid add-ons to free software?

[@bauitsch9065]

Bitte etwas schneller dann verstehts keiner ! Danke

[@wespenwald1297]

Videos are okay - a written documentation would be way more helpful and should be mandatory, actually. I don't have the patience to watch a 30 minute video just to find the answer to a 10 second problem.

[@longpinkytoes]

seven people clicked on the video, liked it right away, then got butthurt when they had to support the devs to use the add-on, and disliked