Blender 2.8 Texture Painting Tutorial: Stencil and Alpha Mask
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange answerers point people to it when they need to paint images or designs onto an object using the stencil brush mapping.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2020 to 2020.
What it is
A short Blender 2.8 tutorial by Jayanam on texture painting a simple mesh with stencil images. It covers a quick smart UV unwrap, adding a base color slot, painting with the default draw brush, and using the stencil's alpha as a mask in the principled shader.
What people said
Recommends esteban hidalgo · 2020-01 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “I cant make an stencil using texture painting”
I am trying the second method you described. The texture uses a png, is on "stencil". I can see the brush, but when I rigth click in does not "paint". I followed a brief tutorial: [this video]
Recommends JoshBadert · 2020-03 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Simply adding an image to mesh (UV confusion)”
So for everybody looking for a solution for that situation as well. There are two ways (probably even more) to solve it: The one that Akai explains in his post very detailed The one that is explained in this video [this video] Thanks for the help!
Recommends C47 Man · 2020-05 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Painting designs onto object”
Create the designs in photoshop or whatever image editing program you use. Export them with alpha. In your material node, add a new image texture and mix it with your regular wood texture. Go to texture paint mode and load your art from photoshop as a texture for the brush. Set the brush mapping to Stencil and orient your view appropriately. Here's a tutorial on how stenciling works in Blender: [this video]