Mask brush

Everytime I use the mask brush to extract a selection, the edges appear sharp and jagged. Are there any alternative ways to make the mask edges more defined prior to extraction? I have already tried holding the control key to create a more defined mask, but that still doesn't give me the definition that I am looking for. Is the only solution to this using a smoothing brush after extracting the mask? Thanks!Screenshot (4).png

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Hi Jose,

    I think the Mask Extract is meant get you on the way, not to give you a 'final' result out of the box.

    It's like a boolean, it Extracts or it doesn't Extract, there is no in-between, so something like Smoothing the Mask won't help either.

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    Yes as Martin says, it's a safe bet to say it 99.9999% of the time comes out like that, tis the way of the mask

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  • Jose Jose A. Jimenez(Tiempo_Libre_Jewelry) replied

    Thank you guys for the help and quick responses. Meshmixer gives me the option to apply a smooth boundary to my selection which smoothens the edges. After offsetting the selection I can use a reduce brush to minimize the amount of triangles in the mesh. Could I do this sort of thing in Blender? I would like to figure out how to do this in Blender so im not going back and forth between programs.

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Hi Jose,

    I don't know Meshmixer and do not know exactly what you mean by smoothing the boundary of a selection, so I can't tell you if/how that could be done in Blender. My guess is, that something like that would be done 'by hand' with the Smooth Brush.

    Blender does have a Density Brush:

    Density.png

    This Brush used to be called Simplify in older Versions (between and including 2.80 and 4.2).

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    Base Blender or Vanilla Blender how it's referred to, may not have that function, but perhaps a sculpting add-on might. You can try searching the Blender Market, there's usually tons of enhancing features in there:

    https://blendermarket.com/

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