Can I hide faces in Texture Paint mode?

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I want to hide some of the faces on the outside of my dogs mouth so I can paint, on the 3D model, on the part of the lips that go inside the mouth.

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You can press ‘H’ to hide selected faces in Edit Mode, then switch to Texture Paint Mode.

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You can hide/unhide faces in Edit Mode and then switch to Paint.

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Make a copy of your object and just separate it (since would use the same material/textures). Just don’t break the original copy by accident.

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Thanks! Always.

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One other very useful method is the Mask Modifier - assign a vertex group or a few of them, and then you can specify the group as hidden or invert the effect to get the remainder.

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Thanks Craig_Jones, I am just getting into all the uses for vertex groups.

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