Is this “occlusion” for sculpting color?

[Sid Edwards]

Let’s say you’re creating an elephant or a dragon. These creatures will have all kinds of wrinkles, creases and bumps in their skin. I want those creases and to sometimes have a different color than the rest of the mesh, like being darker or lighter.

So when I’m sculpting or making materials, how do I tell blender to make part of a mesh a different color based on its distance from…er…hmm…distance from what? I don’t know…a low poly base mesh? Hmm…well you see the dilemma right? If I want a creature’s skin to be one color, but then I want their scales to be another color, how do I control that?

[Martin Bergwerf]

If you are going to Animate a Sculpt, you’ll have to re-Topologize and then you can Assign different Materials to different parts of the Mesh.

You can also Paint in Sculpt Mode.

If you have used Multires, or have a Low Poly version of your Model, you can Bake a Displacement Map, which you can use to ‘separate’ parts based on their ‘elevation’ from the Low Poly version.

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