Marquee Select On Stencil Tool Goes All the Way Through The Object

[Jim_G]

I'm trying to learn the Stencil tool and I am a bit flummoxed.  If I use the tool to paint with a brush, it cuts into the form in more or less the way I'd expect, but if I make *any* kind of marquee or lasso selection, it cuts *all the way through the object.* This behavior seems to persist with whatever tool I use (Base Clay, Vox Hide, etc.)...how can I set the marquee/lasso tools to only cut to a fixed depth?  Please advise.

[Elemeno]

41 minutes ago, Jim_G said:

I'm trying to learn the Stencil tool and I am a bit flummoxed.  If I use the tool to paint with a brush, it cuts into the form in more or less the way I'd expect, but if I make *any* kind of marquee or lasso selection, it cuts *all the way through the object.* This behavior seems to persist with whatever tool I use (Base Clay, Vox Hide, etc.)...how can I set the marquee/lasso tools to only cut to a fixed depth?  Please advise.

personally that looks fine , anything black or invisible shouldnt be affected , i just checked on 2025.01 and its works perfectly , however base clay has brush features that blurs and smudges the edges to give the effect of real clay, use wet clay or any surface tool and you should be a perfect defined texture

 

for cutting through you need this 

 

 

push E for brush menu then check depth limit and set it to a desired depth as you can see 5 is quite deep so its trial and error

Edited May 8 by Elemeno

[Jim_G]

Thanks...for anyone reading this, the "Depth Limit" in the Stroke Mode panel (the one you bring up with the "E" key) is important here.  It might need to be set *very* low to avoid cutting all the way through the model.  (Also, it seems to work better in orthographic views.)