Paint
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1 Painting in Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
About Paint Effects, Artisan and 3D Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Painting in Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Maya Paint Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Artisan Brush Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3D Paint Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
The paint tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Paint Effects Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3D Paint Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Paint Selection Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sculpt Surfaces Tool (for NURBS surfaces). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sculpt Polygons Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Paint Vertex Color Tool (for polygons only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Paint Scripts Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Paint Attributes Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Paint Cluster Weights Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Paint Jiggle Weights Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Paint Set Membership Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Paint Skin Weights Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Paint Soft Body Weights Tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Paint Cloth Properties Tool (Maya Unlimited only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Paint Collision Properties Tool (Maya Unlimited only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Paint Fur Attributes Tool (Maya Unlimited only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Paint Fluids Tool (Maya Unlimited only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Paint Hair Tool (Maya Unlimited only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2 Maya Paint Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About Paint Effects, Artisan and 3D Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Paint Effects Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
How the Paint Effects Tool works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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Brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Types of strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
How paint is applied to strokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
How do I? Paint 2D and 3D objects in Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Prepare to use Paint Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Load Paint Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Load the Paint Effects shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Save preset brushes to shelves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Define Paint Effects hotkeys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3 Painting in 2D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
About Paint Effects, Artisan and 3D Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Painting in 2D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
How do I? Paint 2D and 3D objects in Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Paint in 2D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Display the Paint Effects canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Set up the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Set the canvas size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Set canvas globals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Paint on the canvas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Flip Tube Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Erase paint from the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Smear and blur paint on the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Paint pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Clear the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Zoom and track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Create new images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Create seamless repeating textures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Roll the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Modify textures applied to surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Paint on existing images and textures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Save images . . . . .
