Member MirkoH Posted April 3, 2010 Member Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 Hi, is there an option to freeze some faces on a low poly mesh in paint room? Normally you can paint or fill some "freeze-paint" onto the model. But this tends to be not very precise. For technical objects it might be helpful to freeze Polygons in order to get sharp and clean edges/borders. Is that possible in 3dcoat? And another question: is there a "hide frozen area" command somewhere in 3dc? I could not find anything like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 How about using the Curves tool with it set to Freeze and the hard edged brush? I've done this to help with texturing some architecture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member MirkoH Posted April 3, 2010 Author Member Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 How about using the Curves tool with it set to Freeze and the hard edged brush? I've done this to help with texturing some architecture. Hm. Yes - that's an option. I tried this before my first posting. But I did not have much luck with this technique. Here is a screenshot of my model: I need to paint some textures on the selected polygon. And it would be very handy to freeze AND hide all polygons around those. Therefor a "freeze by polygon selection" and a "hide frozen areas" would be perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 Maybe I'm not understanding, why not just hide the others? Or hide the ones you want to paint on, then Invert Hidden (Ctrl+Shift+I)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member MirkoH Posted April 4, 2010 Author Member Report Share Posted April 4, 2010 Oh - sometimes I am so stupid ... You are absolutely right!!! Hiding faces is the way to go!!! Thank you very much. And sorry for my dull questions!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted April 4, 2010 Report Share Posted April 4, 2010 Glad to be of service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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