Reply To: [SOLVED] Need help with texture painting – artifacts at seams [PIERO]

Hmm , that’s strange. I have done the Piero course myself and I do not remember having that issue. Perhaps its an issue with the bleed amount around the edges of the UV islands. If the bleed does not go far enough, then you may catch artifacts.

You can see the bleed settings here in the texture paint options :

This value controld the amount that your paint will extend past the edges of teh UV islands on the image you are painting too. If it is not high enough then it could cause issues. Also , the UVs from my Piero are here :

You can see how much the painted colours extend past the edge of the UV islands clearly, see what they compare like to yours. You may find that those black artifacts are the black background of your UV image showing through. You could easily test this theory by opening the image in Photoshop and flood filling the background with the colour of the legs.

Hope this helps.

EDIT** , I just zoomed in on your UV’s and you can see that there are areas where the UV islands come close, ore even go over the colour and onto the black background. I have marked some of them here :

This stregthens my theory that I made earlier.