http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Texture_Paint
While following this tut, I find I do not have a paint tool in the 3d window. Do I need to download something else for blender?
I know I will use my other graphics programs for painting, but it would be nice to have this for fast fixes and just for fun.
Thank you
Where it says “Object Mode” in the 3D Header, select “Texture Paint” and look in F9 buttons for the Paint tab.
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Never played with this one before!
What does it do in life?
why use this paint instead of the normal color?
Any wiki page on this one ?
Tanks & Salutations
Blender’s built in paint as I see it will be great for stencils, color and bump maps for organic models and graffiti.
It’s fast in 2.43, but only when you have texture sizes of a power of two.
it is the only way to add lots of detailed colors, a painting, to a mesh. For example, painting this picture and then wrapping it around a sphere gives a world. http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Image:Manual-UV-TexPaint-example.png
Where it says “Object Mode” in the 3D Header, select “Texture Paint” and look in F9 buttons for the Paint tab.
Yes, I’m there. In the header after you are in texture paint there is a paint button to the left of the mode selection. When I click it to get the paint window, etc, it just shows a tiny piece of an empty menu box.
No paint opens for use and is not in the f9 buttons that I can see. Like this:
More help, please, and thank you so much…
OH maybe its in the new release too. I have 2.42a
Press C in the UV/Image Editor and LMB on the Color above “Opacity” to see that tab.
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ok, I have spent about an hour editing this page in the wiki. Please re-read it and see if it is clearer and helps you. Please read all the way through the Brushes section before trying anything. Then go back from the Getting Started section and work your way through. Then please post here if you are confused. Thank you fligh for the hotkey. added to the wiki.
Ok, I will do that! Thank you. I did this:
Press C in the UV/Image Editor and LMB on the Color above “Opacity” to see that tab.
too. But in the picture above, the window is in the 3d editor in paint texture and there is a button to the left that has nothing in the box it opens.
smile.
Also the picture above is titled paint, and the one in the uv is titled image paint.
Probably just samantics and Im sorry if I am making something simple hard. But on the other hand I often make the hard things really easy. smile.
thanks again, go to do the tut…
oic. the picture above is just a general old picture meant to show painting in action. It is from the UV/Image Editor window, NOT the 3d editor in texture paint mode. Press C in the UV/Image Editor window to get the Image Paint panel. Pressing C in the 3D View window in texture paint mode centers the view on the cursor.
The paint panel above is the color selector, not the Image Paint panel. There are two panels, one for the Brush which is the Image Paint panel, and another for the color, which you get when you click the color swatch in the Image Paint panel. see http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Texture_Paint#Brush_Control
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Also the picture above is titled paint, and the one in the uv is titled image paint.
Probably just samantics and Im sorry if I am making something simple hard. But on the other hand I often make the hard things really easy.
smile.
Aah… you’re a girl! If I’d known I’d have explained it differently.
Thing to realize is that the wiki you got that pic from is frequently updated by very few people (relativly speaking) over a long time (again relativly, ie many blender versions). The pics they use are cobbled together on their own computers, probably from screengrabs they have on their own hard drives, and may well be from coded updates that were still in the CVS (not yet officially released versions) in preparation for the final release. Since then the coders may have added or removed text or other parammeters in a later version, or even moved it to display in another window or with another set of hotkeys or settings. Guys like Roger may never get round to updating the pic because they’re too busy updating something else.
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Thank you, yes, immmmmmm a girl. Blink blink.
I understood your explanation ( I had played with that before), just thought there was more to the paint tool and that it was available in the 3d window. Which it is, just not the way I thought.
But there is still that button in the 3d view header next to the mode selection drop up menu that says paint, and has nothing in its little menu window???
Yes. When you are in Texture Paint mode in the 3D view, the Object menu changes to Paint menu. This is just like in Edit mode the menu changes to Mesh, because you cannot do any Object-level functions when you are not in that mode. In Paint mode, the only thing you can do is paint, so there is no menu of choices. that little menu is empty.
In the software industry, this is called “context-sensitive menus” because the menu of available options is sensitive to how you are using the software (the context).
The brush you set in the UV/Image Editor window is also the brush in the 3D window. When you change a brush setting in the Buttons Paint panel, it changes in the Image Paint popup panel in the UV/Image Editor. So, the 3D brush has all the features of the UV/Image Editor brush.
Yes, I understand context-sensitive menus.
I just clicked through all the editing modes and saw the paint button shows up for all the paint modes and changes to reflect which mode you are in (object etc.).
I hadnt realized that before. While working the tuts, I usually used the short cut keys noted in the tuts, not the menus and am going through the tuts as fast as I can.
I don’t think I even noticed the button until I got to this part in the tut to paint in 3d window and I tried to find the paint options in the 3d window. Looking at everything, I noticed the paint button and clicked it and found nothing. LOL.
But I understand now. Sorry for my confusion and taking up your time. But thank you so much for your explanations, you are very patient with a noob’s questions.
We appreciate that patience above everything since we already feel inferior asking the question. We know it is an idiot’s question since obviously no one else is having the problem and made it past the tuts just fine! So it has to be our interpretation. SMILE.