[Soc-2013-dev] Weekly Report #6 Paint Tools

[David Jeske]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Antony Riakiotakis <kalast at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sometimes I so wish we had a wizard dialog when entering paint mode that
> guided the user through some missing steps such as unwrap, define canvas
> image, size etc. Something to keep in mind for sure. There are still people
> who don't know how to set up the paint system correctly and there really is
> no easy way to convey all the missing steps in an organized way.
>

Agreed. This might be something that could be fit into a useful
tool-helper-panel.

Along these lines, there is also some low-hanging fruit with respect to
uv-paint and saving. For example, it currently lets you paint on contexts
(like generated images) which don't even support saving. It also lets you
paint when there is no save-location setup, and it lets you quit when there
are paint changes unsaved. I think it would be better behaved if it only
let you paint when there was a save-context setup, and it integrated with
the "prompt on quit" machinery to avoid letting you quit with uv-paint
changes unsaved / unpacked.

See this bug for one such example...

https://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=498&aid=34235&group_id=9
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