noise

[glorybound]

Is there a way to add a noise modifier to something while keeping the border un-touched? I have a site, with grass, that I would like to add noise to it, but I want the edge along the curb to be left alone.

[percydaman]

yes, its called mesh select modifier. choose that, and then you can select verts/edges/faces etc. Keep those selected in subobject mode then apply your noise modifier. It will only affect those selected subobjects.

[beestee]

You can even use soft selection within the mesh select so that you have a nice transition.

[glorybound]

perfect, thanks!

[glorybound]

OK. I was able to select the open edges, use the softselect, but I actually want the reversed selection.

[percydaman]

click edit-invert selection.

[glorybound]

great, thanks!

[glorybound]

click edit-invert selection.

That didn't work. it did something strange, like it selected everything.

[dellis]

You can also use the graphite modeling tools to just freehand paint the noise!

[jonahhawk]

Try the Volume Select mod. Far and away the most versatile selection tool. You can make a selection of verts using a box volume gizmo and set the falloff from there.

One of the best things about Vol.Select is that it does not use a specific array of vert or face numbers. So if the topology changes below the VolSelect mod, you still have consistent results.