Multi-Paint Palette

The Multi-Paint palette and the controls that can be found on it are described in the table below. When controls also bring up additional dialogs, these are referenced for more information.

What It Does

The Multi-Paint palette enables you to define the stream settings for a Multi-Channel Paint node.

To learn more, go to Multi-Paint and Multi-Channel Paint Node.

Multi-Paint Palette Fields

Control	Type	What it does	Notes
Toggle Multi-Paint	button	Toggles Multi-paint on or off.
Show all / active streams	button	Toggles visibility between all of the available shader streams and only the active shader streams. Active shader streams are defined by the tick button () selected.
Search streams	Text input	Search streams in the currently-selected shader model.
Apply preset	button	Apply pre-defined preset for the shader model. See more at Multi-Paint Presets.	Hover over available presets to see details.
Save as Preset	button	Saves the current settings as a Preset. Opens up pop up window to define the Preset Name and Shelf to store the preset on.
Reset Shader	button	Resets shader to default values, clearing all inputs.
Active Stream	button	Defines whether the stream is active in the Multi-Channel Paint node. When selected, the stream will be painted into when the Multi-Channel Paint node is the active painting target.
Primary Stream	button	When selected (icon is white), the primary stream is the only visible stream while multi-painting. Icon is gray when stream is not selected ().
Target	text	The shader stream to assign an image/ color to. Stream names depend on the shader model chosen when the Multi-Channel pain node is created.
Image	Image input	Defines the image for the current stream. When clicked, opens an Image Manager pop up to select the image for the stream. To choose an image for the stream, select it and press Ok.
Color	Color selector/ button	Define a foreground and background color for the stream. Swap the colors using the swap button ().
Blend mode	Drop down	Define the blend node for the stream. For all available blend options, see Paint Blending Modes.