Adventures across the 3rd dimension

It's mostly boxes...

Everything is just boxes if you look close enough.

*goes off to use voxel remesh again*

That's the founding philosophy of Minecraft right there...

Why are wrists and forearms so difficult?

With previous sculpty attempts I successfully managed to bypass those problems with Orc straps and Yeti hair but my Angry God is proving to be bothersome.

Maybe he just needs some God-sleeves and a large watch?

OK, I made a bit of progress. A bit.

Here's the sculpty body of my God chap so far....

 

And here's a quick test of him amidst some angry-yet-fluffy clouds in a still-untextured sky-fairy kind of way....

 

In the end I want to have lightning too and maybe some glowing eyes and hopefully some godly facial hair as well but that's all a few days away from happening.

My mean, angry god is looking more like General Zod now.

 

But I quite like the curl I got in his beard.
I wanted to use some kind of Brush Alpha Texture on the vertex painting but I can't seem to get that to work. I could get the alphas working with sculpt brushes but not with painty brushes. Don't know why.
I'm sure I'll find a video that explains it in a way I understand.

Alphas are a myth, anyway

Apparently so.

I think I've worked out the problem. When sculpting it converts the brush image into height values according to brightness, like an alpha channel (which is what I want!) but when painting it treats the brush as an opaque stencil and just transfers the varying image colours to the model, which are mostly black.
So that's the problem.
I don't know the solution but I know the problem.

So....
When you're doing "proper" texture painting, with UVs and painting to an image, the brush has a "Texture Mask" option that does exactly what I want.
BUT....
When vertex painting the brush doesn't have that option.

Never mind, I'll mess about with procedural noise textures instead.