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Customizing a Paint Effects brush

Customizing a Paint Effects brush - Maya Tutorial

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Customizing a Paint Effects brush

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- [Man] The Paint Effects Brush Node is very powerful. It gives us many attributes whereby we can art direct the look of the Paint Effects objects, such as this oak tree. We won't have time to even scratch the surface of what the Brush node can do, but it will give you a quick introduction to a couple of key attributes that are relevant to this particular example, which is the oak tree. Let's maximize that viewport. I'll click in the perspective view and then tap the space bar to maximize the view and select just one of those oak trees. And so we can see what we're doing with the Brush node. Let's restore its display quality over in the channel box. For that one stroke, I'll set the display percent to 100%. Press tab and set Draw as Mesh to one or on. And now we can adjust our Brush node. We'll leave these other strokes displayed at low quality for performance reasons in the viewport. With that tree still selected,…

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