Painting Functions
A list of functions and shortcuts for painting and baking paint can be found in the table below.
Function |
How to access it |
What it does |
Opens this dialog box |
Notes |
Undo all unbaked |
• Menubar | Painting > Clear Painting • Toolbar | • Mouse | |
Undo all painting not yet baked into the model (still in the paint buffer). |
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For the mouse gesture: press and hold \, click and drag in the direction indicated. (A thin red line traces gestures onscreen.) |
Undo |
• Menubar | Edit > Undo • Keyboard | Ctrl/Cmd+Z • Toolbar | • Mouse | |
Undo the last action. |
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For the mouse gesture: press and hold \, click and drag in the direction indicated. (A thin red line traces gestures onscreen.) See also the History View Palette. |
Redo |
• Menubar | Edit > Redo • Keyboard | Ctrl/Cmd+Y • Toolbar | • Mouse | |
Redo the last (undone) action. |
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For the mouse gesture: press and hold \, click and drag in the direction indicated. (A thin red line traces gestures onscreen.) See also the History View Palette. |
Bake painting into the model |
• Keyboard | B • Menubar | Painting > Bake • Mouse | • Status bar | |
Saves the painting as part of the project. |
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For the mouse gesture: press and hold \, click and drag in the direction indicated. (A thin red line traces gestures onscreen.) |
Show or hide painting |
• Keyboard | . |
Shows or hides the |
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Show or hide paintable areas |
• Menubar | Painting > • Keyboard | , • Painting Palette | Projection Settings |Mask Preview | Mask |
Shows or hides the |
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When this is on, this shows paintable areas normally, and |
Save current painting as a file |
• Menubar | Painting > Save Painting |
Saves the current unbaked paint (the |
Save Window Painting |
Saves the paint buffer as an .exr file, and puts it in the Image Manager Palette. |
Load |
• Menubar | Painting > Load Painting |
Loads an .exr file and projects it onto the model as the current painting. |
Load |
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Draw straight line between two points |
• Mouse | Click, then Shift+click |
Draws a line with the |
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Draw straight line |
• Mouse | Shift+click and drag |
Constrains painting to straight horizontal or vertical lines. |
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Toggle Last Brush Tip |
• Mouse | • Keyboard | N |
Switches to the last brush tip used. |
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