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[Matt Ebb]

On 03/08/2006, at 08:48 AM, bjornmose wrote:
> Humm about 'em texture brushes ...it's like opening pandoras box ..  
> i know that you know :)
> Now with the noodles available users will yell for brushes coming  
> out of the noodle factory.
> Not that it is a bad idea ... but how to communicate that on the UI ?

That would be really cool, actually, it would allow layering etc.  
Well the composite nodes just output an image block, like the viewer  
node or render result, though these are disabled for use as textures  
for the potential recursive weirdness. Though one could conceivably  
write a 'texture output' node that does the same thing, but just  
checks and disables any 'dynamic' input nodes like a renderlayer  
output. Then it would just be a matter of choosing that image block  
for the texture, I suppose.

> Further more ( i had that requests with clone brush) scale,  
> rotate!, offset,  pre_alpha + post _alpha blending ... even make it  
> implicitely 3d aware .. breathe ...breathe deep ... deeper ... shut  
> up.
> And .. is it worth pulling functionality that 'should' be available  
> via verse from gimp 'soon' ?
> Or are we going to replace gimp'n fellows in the image edit window?
> ... i know you (we) can .. but i feel this is a bit loosing  
> blenders focus <------ out of the stomach statement!

I wouldn't say it's losing focus, myself - especially if this  
eventually ends up involving 3d paint (well, improving the unusably  
slow texture paint that we have currently). Looking at some of the  
Modo demo videos shows how nice a well integrated painting system can  
be.

Obviously Blender shouldn't be duplicating GIMP in total, but I also  
don't think that GIMP's existence should prevent making tangible  
improvements in Blender. The existence of Wings doesn't prevent  
people making modelling tools, nor did the existence of other video  
editors prevent the recent upgrades to the sequencer. Personally I  
don't use GIMP anyway, I don't like it that much, it's dog slow at  
loading and saving on OS X, and it doesn't support pressure  
sensitivity here either. Texture painting is an integral part of 3D  
graphics work, just as much as compositing, and even if you use  
external paint apps, it can still be useful to block out areas in  
Blender, with the much quicker feedback in the 3D View.

Just my thoughts too :)

cheers

Matt



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