Show plane texture while in weight paint mode

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Like you can see on the second image, I painted some areas brown. I made a particle system with grass an tree items and I want to use weight paint to spread them over the model. I only don't want them on the brown area but when I switch to weight paint than do the textures disappear.

I am using the blender render engine and my blender version is 2.74

My question: how can I still see the textures while in weight paint

One way could be to enter Edit mode whille GLSL shading enabled so to see the texture, select vertices / faces where brown texture is drawn (it can be roughly selection though) and assign these vertices to Vertex Group (probably adding some weight to them). — Mr Zak, Nov 12 '15 at 17:26
Possible duplicate of How can I use an image texture as a guide for weight painting? — PGmath, Nov 12 '15 at 19:26

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '15 at 19:07

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Set the 3d view shading type to Rendered, select the area you want to paint on with Ctrl+B, change the mode to Weight Paint and...paint!

answered Nov 12 '15 at 19:07

Paul Gonet

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It is not ideal but it works. One other question. How do I close the selected window? – Vinc199789 Nov 12 '15 at 19:42
Really good question @Vinc199789, which may demand a separate enquiry because I DON'T KNOW! It's easy to do it in camera view, but in ortographic view it's not that easy. I usually select just a very little portion with Ctrl+B to make the border window smaller, but I don't know how to get rid of it (make it completelly invisible) :(. – Paul Gonet Nov 12 '15 at 20:01
found the answer: http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/6341/how-do-i-clear-the-render-border ctrl + alt + B – Vinc199789 Nov 12 '15 at 20:10
@Vinc199789 thanks! Mystery has been solved! :D – Paul Gonet Nov 12 '15 at 20:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 29 '21 at 14:50

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Just go to Show overlays option on right top corner

and then turn down the opacity while in weight paint mode

edited Dec 29 '21 at 14:50

Marty Fouts

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answered Dec 29 '21 at 05:38

noobie pie

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Show plane texture while in weight paint mode

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