Forum: Carrara


Subject: When using Carrara's 3D paint, can one constrain the cursor to V or H?

Plutom opened this issue on Sep 28, 2010 · 5 posts


Plutom posted Tue, 28 September 2010 at 3:24 PM

Hi guys, I'm trying to paint (using 3d Paint in the assembly room) a straight line horizontally across a vertical cylinder and I'm doing about as nice of a job as painting a trim around the top of a wall (meaning it slops all over the place).  Is there a constrain function that I can use to lock the cursor either in the horizontal or vertical mode?  Jan


MarkBremmer posted Tue, 28 September 2010 at 4:37 PM

 In 3D painting there are no constraint properties. For precision like that, it would be best to open up the texture map in a paint program, do the constrained work, and then re-import it back into Carrara for the organic painting.






Plutom posted Tue, 28 September 2010 at 4:51 PM

Thanks Mark, I was afraid of that--Jan


mmoir posted Fri, 08 October 2010 at 8:26 PM

You can use the line tool and constrain that to horizontal or vertical using "Ctrl" or at least I think it is the  "ctrl" key. 

Mike


Plutom posted Fri, 08 October 2010 at 9:14 PM

Hi Mike,  thanks, that works---Jan