Paint Layer

Specifies a paint layer for the terrain or for the mesh.

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Overview

Paint layers allow you to add extra passes when rendering the mesh. Layers are applied after the drawing of the base material.

To set the layer for a mesh, you need to specify the material and the mask.

The mesh geometry must include the texture coordinates channel with unwrapped UV map. The 'Unwrapped UV' property must be configured.
The layer is applied based on the mask, which can be specified by an image from a file (Mask Image property) or an array (Mask property).

Paint layers are supported by Terrain, Mesh, Mesh In Space.

Terrain

Paint layer for mesh

Mesh Editor and Modeling Tools are supports paint layers. Use 'Add Layer' button in the ribbon.

Mesh layer sample

Samples\Starter Content\Scenes\Mesh paint layer\Mesh paint layer.scene

Properties

Name	Description
Mask Format	The format of the mask data.
Mask	The editable mask of the layer.
Mask Image	The mask in a form of texture.
Material	The material of the layer.
Material Color	The base color and opacity multiplier of the material.
Blend Mode	The technique of rendering of the layer.
Surface	The surface of the layer.
Surface Objects	Whether to create objects of the surface.
Surface Objects Distribution	The scale the distribution of surface objects.
Surface Objects Scale	The scale of surface objects size.
Surface Objects Color	The base color and opacity multiplier of the surface objects.