Mask

Reference

Mode

Sculpt Mode

Tool

Toolbar ‣ Mask

Shortcut

M

Lets you select mesh parts to be unaffected by other brushes by painting vertex colors. The mask values are shown as gray-scale. I.e. the darker a masked area is, the less effect sculpting on it will have. See also the options of the Mask menu.

Brush Settings

Mask Tool

The mask brush has two modes:

Draw

Mask drawing.

Smooth Shift

Pressing Shift with the mask brush active will toggle the mask smoothing mode.