{"id":7769,"date":"2023-10-10T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2023-10-10T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:41:08","slug":"paint-minecraft-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/paint-minecraft-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint Minecraft Sand Texture in Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f16553e7c7e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69f16553e7c7e\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/paint-minecraft-sand\/#description\" >Description<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/paint-minecraft-sand\/#save-uncompressed\" >Save Uncompressed<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/paint-minecraft-sand\/#texture-tiling\" >Texture Tiling<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/paint-minecraft-sand\/#timestamps\" >Timestamps<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 25px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><center><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v3l7bi5\/?pub=d3lcu\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"description\"><\/span>Description<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In this exercise we take a look at painting a Minecraft style sand texture using Blenders <b>Texture Paint<\/b> tools. As always when doing something related to Minecraft, we start by adding\/editing a material that&#8217;s finished off with a 16 x 16 pixel image assignment. Once that&#8217;s in place, switching to <b>Texture Paint<\/b> workspace, painting can be done, setting Brush size and selecting the colour palette, before saving the image for further editing if needed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Duration<\/b>: total c. 10 mins (00:10:00).<br \/>\n<b>Info<\/b>: 1080p.<br \/>\n<b>Suitability<\/b>: Beginner+.<br \/>\n<b>Source<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/files\/minecraft\/katsbits - minecraft sand texture.zip\">KatsBits \u2013 Minecraft Sand Texture<\/a> (c. 1 MB, *.blend, *.png).<br \/>\n<b>Product ID<\/b>: n\/a.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Design note<\/b>: Blenders <b>Texture Paint<\/b> tools are not as sophisticated as dedicated image editors but can, nonetheless, be used to create useable images.<\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"save-uncompressed\"><\/span>Save Uncompressed<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Once painted ensure images are saved without compression, so reduce PNG Compression to 0, or use a lossless image format such as <b>Targa RAW<\/b>, <b>BMP<\/b> (Bitmap) or <b>Tiff<\/b> that can be opened without issue into GIMP, Photoshop, Affinity Photo etc., for further editing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/paint-minecraft-sand-gimp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/paint-minecraft-sand-gimp.jpg\" alt=\"GIMP image editing\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Texture painted in Blender open in GIMP for further editing once saved to a suitable format (*.tga).<\/i><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"texture-tiling\"><\/span>Texture Tiling<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Minecraft textures generally need to tile, which can be tricky to monitor painting just the image. To spot tiling artefacts, that is patterns or colours that might make it obvious the image is tiled, in the Texture Paint editor <b>Sidebar<\/b> &#8211; <b><i>View \u00bb Sidebar<\/i><\/b> (<span class=\"shortcutkey\">N<\/span>), in the <b>View<\/b> tab [1] enable <b>Repeat Image<\/b> [2]. The texture being painted will tile or repeat across the work area making it easier to see how well the image will tile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/paint-minecraft-sand-repeat.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 98.5%; height: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/images\/tutorials\/minecraft\/paint-minecraft-sand-repeat.jpg\" alt=\"Repeat Image\" width=\"900px\" height=\"500px\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Monitoring how painted textures tile is aided by enabling <b>Repeat Image<\/b> [2] in the editors Sidebar. This tiles the image infinitely making it easier to spot pattern repetition.<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"timestamps\"><\/span>Timestamps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Times are approximate;<br \/>\n &#8211; 00:00 : Start &#038; Material Set up.<br \/>\n &#8211; 02:30 : UV Editing.<br \/>\n &#8211; 03:30 : Texture Paint(ing).<br \/>\n &#8211; 09:00 : Image Save.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,967,32,230],"tags":[739,785,1014,1025,931,963,156,1019],"class_list":["post-7769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blender","category-minecraft-2","category-texturing","category-tutorials","tag-gimp","tag-minecraft","tag-pixel-art","tag-repeat-image","tag-save-image","tag-texture-paint","tag-textures","tag-tiling"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7787,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/7787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katsbits.com\/codex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}