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[Anonymous No.740220]

>Opens Blender
>Opens sculpting preset
>Finished sculpting the model
>Unwraps UV's
>Goes to shading
>Adds image texture to base color
>Opens texture paint
>Starts painting
>Computer starts melting and Blender crashes

Why is blender so fucking ass at texturing? Why can't it be
>Step 1: Go to texture paint
>Step 2: Immediately start fucking painting

[Anonymous No.740224]

>>740220
Then use another software for painting. You've already done UV

[Anonymous No.740225]

>>740224
I want to be able to paint on the 3d model itself. No sane person takes a texture file, opens up windows paint and tries to edit a texture file for a model with 30,000+ vertices.

[Anonymous No.740228]

>>740220
What the fuck is even going on here?

[Anonymous No.740231]

I don't think I'll ever learn how to texture in blender

[Anonymous No.740245]

>>740231
Mate, you unwrapped that sphere so that every single face is taking the full texture, there's thousands of UV shells stacked on top of each other.

[Anonymous No.740246]

>>740245
All I did was hit "Unwrap UV's"
What the fuck am I supposed to do?

[Anonymous No.740266]

Just use Substance or 3D Coat and you can paint on the model itself. If you use Substance and plan to sell the model make sure you include the substance material, so people using renderers like arnold can use the material straight out of substance.

https://store.substance3d.com/blog/substance-painter-arnold-ultimate-guide-olivier-couston?utm_source=Allegorithmic+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7d98d955d6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2e69063d82-7d98d955d6-331586973

[Anonymous No.740286]

>>740246
either mark seams first or use smart uv project. But uv spheres come pre unwrapped so you don't have to unwrap it at all.

[Anonymous No.740300]

>>740246
If you just pressed "Unwrap UVs" your faces might not be joined. Try applying a Weld modifier before unwrapping.
Also try doing that this Anon said >>740286, smart unwrap usually does the job if you're not looking for sophisticated UVs (layering mirrored parts on top of each other, pixel perfect island alignment etc).

[Anonymous No.740302]

>>740228
>>740225
>>740231
Oh yea, you're uv is wrong. UV is annoying as hell but for a single sphere it must be easy as hell. There must be a sphere projection or something no ?
And btw, you can paint on the 3D model itself with other software. I recommend substance painter as it's easier but I think if you want to go full hand painting look at 3D coat

[Anonymous No.740303]

>>740302
your

[Anonymous No.740337]

>>740302
Smart UV's work thank god
I'll look into substance paint, some of the models look decent

[Anonymous No.740352]

>>740220

It's bad at texture painting because it's not a texture painting software. Use Painter, Mari or Mixer for that unless you want to bite your fingers during the whole process and get shit results.

[Anonymous No.740364]

>>740337
Smart UVs are shit. Don't even start to get the impression you can use these garbage results.
If you want good looking textures and shaders you have to fully learn and understand unwrapping.
Yes, it's fucking shit, nobody in his right mind likes to do this, but you gotta suffer a little-bit if you want to get good. Its not THAT hard to understand.

[Anonymous No.740384]

>>740220
Because just like any other software you're going to be using Substance for texturing anyway.

[Anonymous No.740386]

>>740384
Do people pay for substance?

[Anonymous No.740429]

>complains about Blender
>turns out to be an idiot who tries to shortcut learning the basics and it was his fault

Every fucking time.

[Anonymous No.740618]

>>740364
Please tell me what >>740120 said is true. I don't want to have to seam high geometry models just to make the texturing work. Anything but that man.

>>740429
The workflow with Blender is shitty enough. Ever wonder why anyone who doesn't use Blender won't and never will? It's because they already have software that can do what Blender does EASIER and BETTER. The few pluses I will give Blender is the high amount of available tools for debugging other models, the very easy to use sculpting tool, and the simplicity of it's node graph.

Everything else is a fucking minus though.

Pic related: My first ever model sculpted and textured in Blender. Took me 20 minutes to sculpt, and 2 hours to paint and export because of how shitty the texture paint tool is.

[Anonymous No.740623]

>>740618
>2 hours to paint and export because of how shitty the texture paint tool is.
Putting aside the fact that texture doesn't take two hours, even with Blender's shitty tools, nobody is forcing you to use Blender to what you already have access to or what you're already used to. Stop blaming Blender, and just get good at using whatever it is you intend to use. Maybe start by learning to unwrap. It doesn't matter if that's in Blender or not, so long as you learn. Whether the tools are better or not, they aren't shortcuts, like anon above you says.

>>740364
>nobody in his right mind likes to do this
>he doesn't like puzzles
the Andrew Price sounding voices in my head tell me you're the wallaby not in your right mind.

[Anonymous No.740638]

>>740386
some do... some dont

[Anonymous No.740708]

>>740623
>hearing voices
Take some Haloperidol or throw yourself from the next bridge.

[Anonymous No.740712]

>>740618
>I don't want to have to seam high geometry models just to make the texturing work. Anything but that man.
That's why good topology is needed. High poly stuff is unironically easier to unwrap than medium poly game models if the topology is good.
And yes you have to learn unwrapping, there is no shortcut, maybe in a couple of years, but i am very pessimistic about it. I believe it when i have it on my computer and it works flawlessly.
Even then you have to know how unwrapping works to debug it.

[Anonymous No.740796]

my first try

[Anonymous No.741380]

>>740429
That being said, why is baking vertex colors into a texture have to be so fucking shitty in blender? It sounds like a simple process except it's not.

[Anonymous No.741403]

>>740225
Theres literally built in windows software that lets you paint directly onto 3d models.

[Anonymous No.741414]

>>741403
Why do that when you can just use Mixer 2020 or just bake the vertex colors like >>741380 said.

[Anonymous No.741475]

Jesus fuck op how are you that dense. You didn't even properly unwrap your UVs, you're doing work on a toaster computer and without even know what UV unwrapping is you already think every other program is better than Blender. Get fucked

[Anonymous No.743423]

>>740796
Try again.

[Anonymous No.743533]

>>740246
Imagine the sphere is a sock and you want to stuff shit inside of it without cutting it in half. Make a seam from pole to pole and deselect the first and last edge. Hit unfold and it should get unwrapped unwrapped. Better to put another seam around the equator.

[Ultimate Blender Fan No.743551]

>>740220
Why are those donuts hexagonal? This is heresy!

[Anonymous No.745331]

bampin