Blender 2.8 Tutorial: Mask Modifier

Quickly use the mask modifier to hide geometry

Blender Docs:
Mask Modifier
The Mask modifier allows vertices of an object to be hidden dynamically based on vertex groups.

Options
Mode
The Mask Modifier can hide parts of a mesh based on two different modes, selectable from this select menu.

Vertex Group
When the Vertex Group option is selected, all vertices belonging to the chosen Vertex Group (with a weight above zero) will be visible, and all other vertices will be hidden.

[massivetree]

super easy, barely an inconvenience. Pitch meetings are tight.

[omkarprabhu]

The fact that its been there this whole time and this is exactly what I was looking for thank you 🙌🙌🙌

[rajendrameena]

Awesome and small tutorial. Different from others that just stuck at sofa or cup modelling. Really useful.

[catfishercatfishered]

succinctly, clearly, without unnecessary chatter, subscribe!

[TheNealzarka]

One like for the accent, also it's exactly what I needed in less than a minute, like a coworker you would ask next to you. Great

[jenovaizquierdo]

Awesome tutorial you made me subscribe. Looking forward to see more awesome tutorials from you.

[LeslieSolorzanov]

OMG I will subscribe just to hear more of this accent. OMG

[SavoirPourTous]

Thanks for this video, very interesting

[GeorgiSlavovArt]

I'm a simple man. I hear glaswegian, I click like.

haha jokes aside, thanks for the tutorial, it was simple and useful!
My partner is glaswegian-scottish and I gotta support weegie artists whenever I come across any :))

[jeffg]

👍👍 - this modifier doesn't seem to get much love, but I certainly see plenty of uses for it.

[maxschmerz]

Thank you for talking more understandable than in some of your other Vids ;) Good Tutorial, easy to understand. Thank you. -Subscribed-

[philmsproduction]

Wow. I thought I already knew the mask modifier. But I didn't know there was a slider for the threshold value and that you can actually work with weights. I thought its just for rigid selections of vertices.

[KProductionsFilms]

This popped in my feed and glad it did! That's a pretty neat trick I did not know about. Subbed you cause I love the accent :) Oh, and the handy Blender tips too.

Love that accent <3 Is that scottish? This made me subscribe :D

[MuttsPresents]

The Scottish accent is by far the most difficult accent to understand coming from a Texan...good fucking lord.

[Amadi]

is it possible to apply a mask in the shape of an object?? for example i want a video to play in blender INSIDE the confines of a piano key... yes, a PIANO KEY... looking at it from above. The video is a 2D plane so I assume it would not have vertices??

[gigabytegallery]

My hands are getting clammy when I see that Blender keeps moving everything all over the place every update. There is no option for me to add a keyframe to the Vertex Group Threshold on the current build

[GUMMY_MKII]

The default cube was harmed in the making of this video

[akongas]

Thank you. Heres one for ya... if i have a cube, can i make that cube a mask element for anything that is inside of it? I want it so that when any objects are within the cube they are hidden, but when they exit the cube, I want them to appear? Is anything like that possible?

[josephvanwyk]

lol - so the mask modifier is just a different version of the build modifier (application through animation) ?