Newb Question. How Do I Actually Paint On The Model?

[jasondhsd]

Hopefully this is a real simple questions, I have a nice rolling landscape I want add grass and plants to using paintfx how do I make is so the grass paints onto the mesh(polygons) instead of going onto the grid. thanks

[duncanbrinsmead]

Select the mesh and then from the paint effects menu do "make paintable".

Duncan

[barrylegg]

Hello.

I have a similar problem. I've selected 'make paintable' but then the only way I can apply PFX brushes to the (poly) surface is by scribbling over the top of it, and this looks bad.

I also tried making the surface live, then drawing a CV curve down the middle of it, then using 'attach brush to curves' this didn't work for a couple of reasons.

i) the PFX for some reason lay at 90 degrees to the side of the curve, with the grass spreading out in the Y direction either side of the curve.

ii) the stroke just branches out to either side of the initial curve / stroke and does not adhere to the rest of the landscape surface.

Is there not an easy way of 'flooding' selected faces or surfaces with a PFX brush in a similar way to how one does with 3D paint?

[duncanbrinsmead]

When painting on a poly mesh you need to first have unique uvs assigned to the full mesh. The stroke position on the mesh is maintained as uv positions, so it is ambiguous if more than one point has the same uv. Also when simply assigning pfx to a 3D curve there is no sense of surface direction other than the local curvature on the curve. If desired however you can edit the stroke after creating it and enable "useNormal", setting the normal direction to the desired up direction (a fixed direction rather than relative to the surface or curve ).

You can do a flood fill of strokes using the pfx auto paint menu.
Duncan