Does anyone know of a good way to overlay markings, bruises, scratches, cuts and so on, on characters. I’m doing action based anime style animations. I know I can just make shape keys with separate faces, but I want more control and flexibility to put it anywhere on their body’s and cloths, plus z-f…

Load an image onto a plane then shrinkwrap it around a target. Set the material’s blend mode to alpha blend and shadow mode to none. To avoid z-fighting you can toy with the offset setting of the shrinkwrap modifier: [decal] After that you can parent the decal to the model so that it stays in pla…

What’s the best way to control shrink wrap. Not sure if I messed something up or not but when I tested it on a character mesh, it morphed it quite a bit.

I just tested it, and it doesn’t follow rigged objects well, even when parented to the object or rig.

The best way is to build them into the texture. That can be done with texture painting. If you want to animate them being added, make multiple textures and animate the fac of a MixRGB node. Even if you choose to use another technique, it’s best to bake it to texture when you’re done. There are o…

Sorry for the late reply, life right now. I’ll do some tests, current I can’t truly test this out, but I’ll do some testing that I can do right now, but I think I’ll do a mix of decal mesh with shape keys and the shrink-wrap method you suggested.

I am coming across a weird problem, I keep getting “target has edges with more than two polygons” whenever I try to bind it, do you have a fix for this.

Well, does the target have any edges that connect more than two faces? (You can use a “select non manifold” operation in edit/vertex mode, with only “multiple faces” enabled in the operator panel, to find out.) If it does, then you can’t use a surface deform modifier-- but if it does, that’s going…

I tested it on 2 meshes, one was a gohan model I found online while the other is a vroid model. It worked on the gohan model but not the vroid one. While messing around abit, I found that parenting the image to bone (relative) works fine, tho I still have to test around abit.

Whats the best way to add markings to a character and control their positions in 2.9?

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I saw this post the other day and haven’t really found much but I thought I would mention what I did find. It seems to me there must be a way that anime creators do that…