Why's Blender Not Working - Can't Painting

[@JamieDunbar]

This has to be the single most common complaint I hear from beginners. A very necessary video. I'll be sharing this one around ;)

[@KaanGulUnity]

Finally got someone whos talking on this.. I'm having this issue for a long time, espacially stutter lags while texture painting. I've tried everything to solve this, disabling the Backface Culling and Occlude in Brush Options, using texture painting tab as single tab on the view, i've poked some settings in preferences that can be connected with this problem. But no, there is no solution. Blender needs to focus that lagging and stuttering problem. Because if you're not using Substance painter, if you're not available to buy it or what ever, literally there is no any option to make texture painting alternatively.. There is a one software that i can found with long searching (long because i've thinked every possible needs for who needs every good advantage from blender, like priceless, facemask option etc. etc.) and its Quixel Mixer. But it can't offer these features easly than blender. And its feels suck. You may think my pc specs are maybe poor, but its not. Definitely there is a problem with blender. Edit : I supposed this video 'probably' about this shitty problem but i saw and its not . Sorry, but my problem adds on yours now :D

[@grabbitt]

Hopefully the deceleration will get back to texture painting at some point in the near future

[@thomasfrose]

Would love to see more of this "common problems with Blender and potential solutions" video series!

[@Korvar]

Really love this "Blender Not Working" series, a fantastic resource!

[@zillaquazar]

Grant Abbitt my pick for blender ASMR. always explaining things in a calm and easy to understand way. I learn something new each video

[@eobet]

The most infuriating thing for me is that it’s so difficult to see WHICH texture you are currently painting on! 🤬

[@Ottolla]

Goodness. Mine was the texture brush thing. It was driving me so hard, causing NOTHING was working. Thanks a million!

[@Tomtommer]

Finally.. an idiot-proof explanation even I understand, for me to understand how to start texturing. I used to just model and keep everything in the default grey, so this will help a lot. Thanks.

[@Rahd9ast]

How come no one thought of this before? This should be a series ! Brilliant video👌

[@constantinezh7156]

Grant the boss as usual, thank you good sire

[@yezzzsir]

Great trouble shooter video Grant. Thanks for this!

[@fabrizio.bonini]

Oh this video is so useful to me! Thank you!🙏

[@Keilnoth]

Never had any of these problems. But the main problem I have is the viewport not properly refreshing. I can paint, use a few stencils, etc. and then suddenly for an unknown reason the viewport doesn't display my painting anymore but I can see it's properly appearing in the UV Map/Image Texture. I have to connect/disconnect the Image Texture node, change the render mode, or do some random manipulations, including reloading the file, for the viewport to be refreshed again. This is generally when I decide to stop using Blender for texture painting because it's just so bad.

[@agyab3d]

great tips for saving me in the future..thank sir

[@schroedingersdog7965]

Excellent! Many thanks, Grant.

[@SerenityYoutube]

Ok so I am having a problem where, it won't do ANYTHING, I followed your texture painting in blender 4 video, and followed everything, but for some UNKOWN reason, it literally just doesn't let me paint, when I click nothing happens.

[@SerenityYoutube]

Guys, I figured it out!

[@grabbitt]

Very tricky to say. If you can get someone else to check the blend file on a different machine

[@SerenityYoutube]

@@grabbitt it was some sort of layer I had on it that just didn’t let me draw, when I deleted it, it worked fine

[@AleksandarPopovic]

Very nice, but all with that the Blender behavior is very strange, now is version 4.2.1 I must see what bugs are resolved, keep going, more videos pls from you😅❤

[@hannadabrowska6675]

I have my UV in edit mode, but as soon as i switch to texture mode I can't see it :( I don't know what is a problem.

[@SceneDollx3]

I dont get it. I have nodes like in 3:23 but cannot paint. It doesn't show any errors, just nothing I paint shows up :(

[@shitinternet408]

Same happens with me. Did you find the fix?

[@Paplo897-bf3ep]

thanks

[@CerealKiller]

excellent and to the point

[@chahak376]

Sir I am new to blender so I want to get information about high poly and low poly. I 😮want to make short stories in the future. Does poly count matter? Can we use such a sofa set in our animated stories which you taught in your previous videos about 4years back ? Everyone talks about objects used in games but not about used in short animated films. I hope you can understand what I want to say. Please make a tutorial on this topic if possible 🙏

[@JoltNet]

Can someone please tell me why painting in preview mode follows the viewport and not the face normals of the object I’m painting. It requires me to constantly reorient my viewport to avoid distortion. This makes no sense to me.

[@grabbitt]

yes. I think they were working on updating this but cant remember when its due to happen

[@JoltNet]

@@grabbitt Thanks! Fingers crossed!

[@BlendGoldAnimate]

Hi Grant . Ive been working on my Ork .. but when I select everthing and STR Alt .. my buckle etc dimensions stay huge ? Dead Ended :( .. Blender 4 glitch perhaps ?

[@grabbitt]

Apply the scale

[@enso8762]

Very helpful👌

[@perkonsstudio]

thank you, when i change texture of the brush, alpha texture, its a paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain.

[@neail5466]

Cant thank you enough. Just one question, what if I need to unwrap with a seam, and it keeps pixelating. I had this problem earlier but failed to fix. Finally resorted to smart project, but it is very hard to co-relate in that scattered view.

[@grabbitt]

you have to make sure your unwrap is good and even. Use a test texture to see where you might need to unwrap further

[@DiThi]

Imagine you have half a hollow orange, so just the peel, but in one piece. If you then squish it against the table it will crack from the border inwards, because that's how it resolves the tension. The same applies to UV unwrapping, except that you have to "crack" the mesh on purpose, through UV seams. Sometimes it's better to divide a island in two rather than cutting it half way trying to remain in one piece.

[@neail5466]

@@DiThi Great, are you suggesting adding additional geometry ( loop cuts ) only for splitting?

[@DiThi]

@@neail5466 Not really. Just mark existing edges as seams, A flat face is already flat, you don't need to subdivide it. The non-flatness of meshes happen because of multiple faces are connected, and it's precisely those connections what you can break with seams. The seams turn into cuts in the UV map when you unwrap it. So the idea is to make cuts somewhere where it stretches the most. In the orange example, the cuts are connected to the border.

[@jovlem]

Do a tutorial for Ucupaint, which is a free addon and really great.

[@grabbitt]

I'll try and take a look at some point

[@GarviHere]

Can'ting painting

[@christianabandabella235]

Super!!!

[@saladpotato]

still stuck on 2.9

[@AINIMANIA-3D]

Blender hates humanity and wants to see us suffer.

[@vertextwin1177]

Sometimes Blender is good and not good at the same time.

[@revotiva]

I really hate blenders texture paint , i used substance painter is so easy to create textures and AO , but i will start yo learn 3d coat, for.stylized textures

[@danielpons2484]

the problem is : can't erase textures. Blender has no Eraser, thats the problem

[@GinoZump]

Try the Ucupaint extension

[@arduinoblokodtr3699]

just use substance painter,(btw its free for students) blenders texture painting workspace is really slow you down

[@Uhfgood]

It's interesting how texture painting works completely different than grease pencil drawing.

[@agyab3d]

great tips for saving me in the future..thank sir