
Blend brush preset shape ( BrushPresetBlend Shape). Blend brush preset shading ( BrushPresetBlendShading). Blend brush preset shading and shape ( BrushPresetBlend). Switch Paint At Depth option on or off ( TogglePaintAtDepth). This is particularly useful when painting plants on the canvas. Switch the Tube Direction between Along Path and Along Normal ( FlipTubeDirection). Undo the last canvas stroke ( UndoCanvas). Clear the canvas ( ClearPaintEffectsView). Modify the brush width ( ModifyLowerBrushRadius, in Brush Tools category). In addition to setting hotkeys for each of the items on the Paint Effects menu, you can set hotkeys (under Categories > Paint Effects in the Hotkey Editor) to do the following: MAYA 2017 PAINT EFFECTS WINDOWS
Select Windows > Settings/Preferences > Shelf Editor and click Save All Shelves. To save all brushes in a folder to a shelf, middle-click the open folder icon and drag it to the shelf. To save a single brush to a shelf, middle-click the brush icon and drag it to the Paint Effects shelf, another shelf, or the new shelf you created. Create a new shelf for the preset brushes. Click the folder containing the preset brush(es) you want to save to a shelf. Click the Paint Effects tab and expand the brushes folder, if it is not already expanded. You may want to drag and drop these preset brushes to the Paint Effects shelf, or another shelf, so they are available for easy access. When you load Paint Effects for the first time, the preset brushes can be accessed from the Content Browser, while a small subset of preset brushes are available in the Paint Effects shelf. Maya provides over 200 preset brushes in your mayapath /brushes (Windows and Linux) or mayapath /Maya/Contents/brushes (Mac OS X) folder. Refer to the lessons in Getting Started with Maya for an introduction to Paint Effects. Bind the CVs of some NURBS curves to vertices on the subdivision surface then convert the curves to strokes.
Paint on the NURBS surface and the Paint Effects strokes will grow out the NURBS surface and through the subdivision surface. Place rough, invisible NURBS or polygonal geometry inside the subdivision surface and bind it to the same skeleton.You can also try the following workflows: If you are painting in a scene, note the following:Ĭurrently, you can only paint effects on the view plane (the plane that is ortho-normal to the camera view), the grid plane of the perspective view, or on NURBS or polygonal surfaces.Īlthough you cannot paint 3D effects on subdivision surfaces, you can paint 2D effects on them using the 3D Paint Tool, or you can create textures using Paint Effects and apply them to the surfaces.Drag and drop preset brushes to shelves, if they are not there already.Load the Paint Effects shelf if it’s not already loaded.
Load Paint Effects, if it is not already loaded.To ensure that your first experiences with Paint Effects are successful, go through the following checklist before you begin. Paint Effects is a powerful and complex program.