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Questions tagged [masking]

Questions related to masking. Masking is used for many different things, such as compositing, hiding geometry, etc.

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Why does my mask move when I zoom?

I created a mask in blender, but it moves around when I zoom in and out. For different zoom levels, the mask appears in a different location. Is this a bug in blender? Or is there some way to prevent this behavior? Here is my mask at 2:1 zoom: At…
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How to animate a plane track

I did some motion tracking and added a plane track, and the camera changes angles somewhat. When it changes, the plane track slides off a little bit. Since I can't fix the trackers very well, is it possible to animate the plane track so when the…
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How to use Mask to hide a specific object?

In this scene, I want the blue disk to be invisible to the camera, hide the part of text that disk covers while keeping the plane all visible.
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Rotoscope mask has different shape after rendering

I am rotoscoping a scene and it looks fine in the compositor: the mask is bordering all the figure as in the picture 1 But when I render it the mask appears in a different location as shown in picture 2 (look left hand, up) Can somebody please tell…
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How to see an object by looking throug another object?

I am making a portal and I want to make it so you can only see objects through the Portal, like in Picture 1.Picture 1
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Subdividing a Mask

Is there any way to subdivide an already created mask. I'm working on a project where I have already manually masked about 50 frames (about 2 hours' worth of work), when i realized that there aren't enough vertices (is that the word?) in the mask. …
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my mask is not the right size

the mask is too small but in the movie clip editor its looks good is it because I filmed with an iPhone I can resize it my self but I want it to be normal
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Create grayscale masks in Blender like Gimp

I want to create an image only with highlights in Blender using the following method: Image -> increase lightness = Image 2 Image 2 -> covert to black and white = BW-Mask apply BW-Mask to image 2 like in Gimp to get Image 3 than contains only…
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Adding a Mask modifier to any mesh is causing it to instantly disappear, no matter the settings

I tried this in Blender 4.0 and 3.4 and started new projects and the issue shows up in both. It didn't happen for a couple of spheres for some reason and it doesn't happen to duplicates when I duplicate the ones that didn't glitch out. I'm at a…
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How do I delete Mask data blocks in Masking tab

Blender noob coming from Houdini. How do I delete these mask data blocks in the masking tab? They seem to keep getting created but I have no idea how to delete or clean them up.
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3d object into 2d image

Coming from architectural background... what is the process of masking a 3d rendered object and placing it into a 2d image in a cityscape, where some part of the 2d image will be in front of the rendered 3d building? Available source for learning…
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Using the Skytexture while masking with holdout

I want to render a scene with a Sky Texture in the background, while masking out an object A with another object B by using the Holdout option under Visibility > Mask in the properties of object B. But in order to get the masking, I need to check…
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Object as cut mask

a few days ago I started to learn Blender. I only have experience with Affinity Designer and Illustrator Layers and Masks and stuff like that. I have this little scene: Link to the file: Blender File What I want is for the red frame object to also…
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Masking a plane

I have a plane that should be masked similarly to what the person displays in this video with a torus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS-36yegLcg But when I apply all the masking rules as shown in the video my plane is not doing the same thing and…
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Keying and Masking Green Screen but Background Isn't Transparent

I have green screen footage that I'm trying to render with a transparent background. I create a mask and set up my nodes in the compositer, but the result in the viewer and in renders has a checkered background with distorted colors (see image). …
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