I’m curious to know if anyone knows of a way to convert meshes to alpha images for texturing in another program. So far the way that I’ve found involves using another program as an intermediary but after a few days, its performance is lackluster. Any help would be fantastic, thank you.

It looks like the video is simple Screw test_X.blend (913.1 KB) [untitled1] [Create a Alpha Brush in Blender 3.0 | CNC Modeling]

Do you have an example image of what you mean?

I’ll do you one better, here’s the blend file. Screw test.blend (876.3 KB) Feel free t delete the plane, but I want to keep the screw in its entirety.

But what do you mean by “meshes to alpha images”?

Similar to what this guy is doing on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQiXvbiAd0&t However, the additional program in use is fluky, at best.

The closest I have seen to that is the video linked here: [image] Bas-relief from 3D objects Basics & Interface You can either use a displacement modifier with an image as the texture or use the texture as a “brush” texture in sculpt mode. Both methods require that the …

On that video there is a comment by YT@rushingpixel about how to do it all in Blender, without using any additional programs. I’ve not tried this myself, but it sounds reasonable. Did you try that yet?

This script looks easier: [image] Bas-relief from 3D objects Basics & Interface Please refer to the video below in a similar way [Blender Secrets - Create Alpha Textures for Detail Sculpting] [Blender Secrets - Sculpting Details With Alpha Textures] …

I apologize, I didn’t read down that far. However after trying it, it still doesn’t come out the way I’m picturing

I’ve just tried this, this is better. Closer to what i’m looking for but some jagged lines I can deal with for now.

You mean something like an orthogonal camera matching the scale of your base and optinaly using a normalize node and also makeing the 90 degree angles a bit more non 90 degree like so: [screwGrey] ScrewTestAlpha.blend (117.3 KB)

Alphas from meshes?

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DNorman (DNorman) October 6, 2023, 11:02pm 9

This script looks easier: