Questions tagged [dynamic-paint]

Dynamic paint is a modifier and physics system introduced in Blender 2.6x that can turn objects into paint canvases and brushes, creating vertex colors, vertex weights, image sequences, waves, or displacement. Use this tag for all of your questions pertaining to the use of Dynamic Paint.

Dynamic paint is a modifier and physics system that can turn objects into paint canvases and brushes, creating vertex colors, image sequences or displacement. This makes many effects possible like, for example footsteps in the snow, raindrops that make the ground wet, paint that sticks to walls, or objects that gradually freeze.Dynamic Paint can be activated from the “Physics” tab of the “Properties” editor.

Dynamic Paint at the Blender Manual

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Can I make a pen draw a solid line?

I have tried to make an animated pen draw a solid, curving line - with limited results! I tried dynamic paint, but couldn't get a decent line, just a big fuzzy mess! The best I could do was with a particle system, but that is made of dots and, the…
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Can't seem to get dynamic paint waves to behave correctly

I'm trying to create the waves made by a ship as is sails. I've had success doing this with vertex displacement, but as I'm going to use it in a large body of water and from a distance I can't subdivide the surface enough to keep everything running…
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Difference between a paintmap and wetmap

Can somebody explain to me what is the difference between a paintmap and a wetmap? I'm currently studying dynamic painting and wondering the difference between these two outputs.
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How do I use Dynamic Paint with the Image Sequence setting?

Dyanmic Paint has two possibilities for the "Format": Vertex and Image Sequence. I've been able to do it with Vertex, but when I do it with the Image Sequence setting, I'm able to output the .png files successfully, but when I render, I don't see…
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how can I invert the weight paint of dynamic paint?

I have a surface with all vertex weith set to 1, when the object set to brush in dynamic paint came over, the vertex must be setted to weight 0. Any solution?
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How to fix this broken Dynamic Paint in Blender 3.2?

I am working with a very simple scene in Dynamic Paint in Blender. There is a canvas and a brush. I am trying to create ripples. It is working perfectly in version 3.1.2 and any version below that. But in version 3.2 the display is completely wrong.…
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How do I create a dynamic paint obstacle?

I want to make an obstacle for a brush so if the brush's paint goes outside the box it doesn't paint My goal is to make any faces outside the box to not get painted, I tried giving the box a brush to erase paint and it kinda works, the block on the…
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Deform Mesh with Dynamic Paint Ridges

I’m using the Displace option in the Dynamic Paint modifier to leave an indent from one sphere on another as the first sphere orbits the second. Pretty cool, right? Wrong! I have Subdivide Surface modifiers cranked way up on both spheres (before…
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Problem with the "Use Object Material" setting for Dynamic Paint

I'm attempting to use Dynamic Paint with the Image Sequence setting. I've followed all the necessary steps and I also chose to enable the setting Use Object Material. The material should be green, but the .png files that are produced just have the…
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Cell division problem - how to fix this glitch?

I have a problem splitting a cell in two when using dynamic paint modifier > Surface > Waves, to emphasize the "wobble" effect. I tried to follow this youtube tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTgd25Llh1M&t=110s, but it doesn't seem to work…
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How to have 2 or more dynamic paints on a single object?

I have a Waved Object (Blue surface) that need to Wet the Red Cubes fall into it, how to make that happen? Only one Dynamic paint can be applied to surface at a time, Is it possible to cache, or convert-to-frame the Waved Deformation, and then apply…
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Is there a way to create a dynamic paint object/brush that absorbs wave motion rather than reflect it?

Within dynamic paint, let's say there was a wave incident on an object (a wall created by a mesh cube, for example), but rather than reflect the wave, you would like it to absorb (completely damp) that energy as the animation continues. Is there a…
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Dynamic Paint is slightly shifted

I'm using dynamic paint to simulate a marker on a paper using true-to-life dimensions. The brush is set to use proximity (distance 0.001) and I notice that the resultant paint is offset a couple vertices to the xy direction. (1) Is this something…
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Is there a way to make dynamic paint affect the reaction diffusion from tissue?

I've been experimenting with the tissues reaction-diffusion, but I can't find a way to render the animation so I'm trying to control it with the dynamic paint, using some spheres to paint, but the reaction-diffusion doesn't seem to recognize it. Is…
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Dynamic Paint; invisible object is acting as brush anyhow

I model a concrete structure in which water is rising and falling and would like to create wet walls using dynamic paint (Blender 2.81). Rising and falling water are modelled by two (or more) meshes whose visibility is animated (e.g. one on - the…
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