# Masking/sculpt potential bug

**URL:** <https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/masking-sculpt-potential-bug/8739>\
**Category:** Bug Report\
**Created:** [October 26, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/masking-sculpt-potential-bug/8739 "2022-10-26T06:22:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Aegis\_or\_Pred](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/aegis_or_pred/32/12710_2.png) [@Aegis\_or\_Pred](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Aegis_or_Pred)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/masking-sculpt-potential-bug/8739/1 "2022-10-26T06:22:32Z")

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I’m still somewhat new to Nomad but I’m not sure what is happening with my sculpt after the update to 1.68. I masked off the face so I could work on sculpting the hair and then when I reversed the mask, his face was filled with lines. When I try to smooth them out with the smooth or flatten tool, they get fixed until I zoom out and rotate the model, then they are back.

Any advice would be wonderful as this is a project I had hoped to finish yesterday afternoon :-/

I was using the clay and brush tools with a hair texture alpha mask with Dynamic Topology enabled and protect masked area checked.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/nomadsculpt/original/2X/1/1c0883facf4c7310652cea68ecf0f585ed55d913.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Aegis\_or\_Pred](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/aegis_or_pred/32/12710_2.png) [@Aegis\_or\_Pred](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Aegis_or_Pred)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/masking-sculpt-potential-bug/8739/2 "2022-10-26T06:31:33Z")

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Side view of the same problem. The hair is not painted, it is masked off.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/nomadsculpt/original/2X/4/43919e9f86ffe8f0963b96209aa218824f8b194b.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![stephomi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/stephomi/32/19583_2.png) [@stephomi](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/stephomi)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2022, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/masking-sculpt-potential-bug/8739/3 "2022-10-26T16:39:32Z")

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> [@Aegis\_or\_Pred](#):
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> I masked off the face so I could work on sculpting the hair and then when I reversed the mask, his face was filled with lines.

I don’t understand what that means.  
It looks like you sculpt accidentally on the mesh.