Apparently mask brush not working

Question

I'm working through "Basic Blockout", and I spent a lot of time working on the bottom fins. When I turned to the tail fins, I was unable to apply a mask. I use the Mask Brush with size 45 px and strength 1, + (not -) set, and mask does NOT work. In the same fiIe, I tried to create a new object, (cube, control -5 to add a mesh) and again the mask does NOT work. I quit Blender and reopen fiIe and mask still does NOT work. I clear mask and still mask does NOT work. I go back to a previous version of my shark when I had not started the bottom fins and I WAS able to apply a mask. There must be some setting that I inadvertently set in my shark file?

Answer 1 · 2022-05-19T23:37:47Z

c

replied May 19, 2022 11:37pm

Hey there,

I remember a similar thing happening to me. The problem was that mask was disabled in my viewport overlays. So, although the mask tool was actually working, I couldn't see it. Hope this helps.

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Answer 2 · 2022-05-20T06:51:22Z

replied May 20, 2022 6:51am

Hi ggailgongster

cchrislim is probably right (thanks Chris).

There is a Shortcut to toggle the Mask Visibility in the Overlays: CTRL+M, which you might accidentally have used (you wouldn't be the first...).

(Of course you need to have the Overays enabled.)

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Answer 3 · 2022-05-20T13:14:42Z

g

replied May 20, 2022 1:14pm

Control M did the trick. I poked around and found overlays. So I learned 2 more things...thank you so much chrislim and spikeyxxx for your help.

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Answer 4 · 2022-05-20T13:29:30Z

g

replied May 20, 2022 1:29pm

I didn't mention cchrislim and spikeyxxx properly in my reply above. You can see I am a real newbie here. Thank you cchrislim and spikeyxxx for your very quick and helpful response. Control M did the trick, and I also learned about overlays!

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