[Berhune]

Well thanks for the reference and for the help. It’s been very useful and a lot of fun, too.

[Berhune]

Yep, that’s what I’m doing!

Thanks for the tip about pasting the texture into the viewport, I hadn’t realized you could just do that. Also I’ll review my psd. My texture had a black background that wasn’t being covered by the alpha channel, but you’re saying a transparent background will be masked? I just removed the black background but when I paste the new psd with a transparent background into my viewport the part that should be transparent turns gray in the projection layer. I guess that the way Bodypaint splits an image into color, alpha, bump etc. channels means that you can’t paste more than one simultaneously into the projection layer?

Hmmm.

[Berhune]

This definitely seems like an easy way to do something similar to what I wanted. Those basics…!

Still, the flat projection doesn’t really come out very well against an object as complex as this flower, while the projection paint hit all the surfaces right so that at the perfect angle the text on the flower is legible, while even slightly off it is garbled nonsense. This is the effect I was looking for. I still haven’t taken Noah’s tutorial yet, though, so there is almost certainly a way of achieving a better result in the program than what I did.

[Berhune]

Thanks. I’ll give this a whirl and see how it goes.

[Berhune]

Thanks for the speedy response.

I think perhaps I’m getting confused about the logic of the situation. I’ve got a texture UV mapped onto a model, in this case a a complex model like the flower of a rose. I’d like to projection paint an image of the text “test” (or whatever) over the existing texture. The “test” image has yellow text but everything else is masked by alpha. Without interfering with the alpha of the rose texture, I just want the text to be drawn on the projection, so that I don’t get the nasty black background sprayed on as well. I guess the real question is whether the texture plane that you paint on with a projection can accept alpha.

I figured out an alternative way to do this, but it’s clumsy: I’ve pasted my “test” image, black and all, onto the projection, let it apply to the rose, then pasted the alpha channel grayscale into the layer mask for the image. This is fairly effective, but unfortunately since the projection needs to apply between pasting the “test” image and the mask, the results are uneven and pixellated.

Any thoughts?