When using nodes in Cycles, I choose an image. It works OK if I bake onto a new image, but after a while, I tell the node to open a file… …and it loads a different image! No matter what I do, No matter where I tell it in Blender to assign an image, (in UV window or in the nodes) it just keeps reverting to previous textures! I tell it to open a texture file, I browse through, pick the file… and then BAM! The name field re-loads itself, and puts some other file right back in!! I’ve tried X ing everything out, clearing everything in every field possible so it say new and/or none… and then, I try to choose the image I want… and BAM… It assigns the other texture file! One I DID NOT CHOOSE IN ANY WAY. But it’s always the same one, so it must be some link. I AM SO CONFUSED!
It works sometimes… sometimes I choose or change an image, and it does it… but other times, I try, and it just keeps reverting to an older image… sometimes it seems to choose the images at random!
Wha in monkey balls is going on. I have also tried to find more specifics on what these fields mean, but all i find are beginner tutorials, both in the manual and online. Nothing seems to address this. I know I am majorly misunderstanding something here, or its a bug.
What is the little image icon for in the UV/image editor? I can only pick certain images from it, and it does not allow browsing.
What is the name field right of it for? I have even tried typing the name of the image in there, only to have it revert to an older, unwanted image, or add a .001.
What is the file browser for in the UV/Image Editor?
What is the little image icon in the Image texture node for? It acts just like the one in the UV/Image editor, and gives me the same headache.
Same with the name field and the file browser. They keep reverting back to the image I did not want, on their own!
It’s like there is some kind of linking going on, I don’t understand, and I’d really like to figure this out. What confuses me even more is it works as I would expect about 80% of the time. I choose a different image, it loads the different image. Cool, I think… and then an hour later… it starts fighting me… …and all hell breaks loose. I just wannna browse my images, pick the correct image, and be done. How do I break these links? How do I stop it from loading images that must be linked with a name?
I know I am making things worse by trying to name them, I just don’t get it. Is it packing or something? (I am not telling it to pack, as far as I know. Is there some kind of autopacking that is tripping me up?)