1. Image has been setup now Left Click on Mode Selector and change to Texture Paint Mode.
2. Hover your mouse over 3D Viewport and press key “N” to acrivate Paint Properties command.
3. Pick any color you want from Paint Properties and Left Click on any part of sculpted prim to paint.That’s how you paint in 3D view! Notice if you’ve UV/Image Editor open you’ll see real-time result appear in texture file while you do 3D paint.
4. To make your sculpted prim look realistic just like inworld (both Second Life and Opensim) you can change Draw Type to Textured.In this draw type mode you’ll see texture with background color on mesh surface.
You could swap back to Draw Type : Solid anytime if you prefer.
5. If you also want to paint in 2D texture like Photoshop style, look at menu bar under UV/Image Editor and choose Image > Texture Painting.
6. Hover your mouse over UV/Image Editor and press key “C” to call out Image Paint menu.Select any color from Image Paint option and Left Click directly on rectangular texture to paint color into it. Immediately sculpt mesh in 3D viewport also update your painting result in real-time too.
At this point, Blender are able to paint sculpted prim on both 2D & 3D view together. Cool isn’t it! :)
7. Blender became your canvas and ready for texturing but you still need to learn to control brush setting by using Paint Tool.There’re 2 Paint Tool properties avaliable in Blender you can use which one is up to you since both tools almost look the same except some option are different.
Patin Tool #1, is a floating tab resident inside UV/Image Editor windows. To using it select View > Paint Tools from menu bar under UV/Image Editor.
Patin Tool #2, named Paint(Tab) which show in Editing Panel (Red Cycle) while you working in Texture Paint mode (Yellow Cycle).
PS. I will not describe everything inside Paint Tools because it will took very long so you could play around with it. Most of these options are similar to Photoshop or Gimp it’s not too hard to guess.
8. Let’s do simple texturing on our sculpt prim. There’s 3 basic options you should know for beginnerColor Picker: Click on the color bar it will popup a Color Picker for you. Left click on any color to choose.
Opacity: Move slider to control how thickly brush you want to.
Size: Move slider to control scale of your brush.
Set the brush style you want and Left Click on 3D sculpt mesh or image texture to paint.
Tips: You can Undo painting by press key “Ctrl+Z”.
9. Pain anything you want (try something better than mine!) but make it easily to recognize when you preview texture inworld.When you finished painting, Let’s export texture from Blender in next tutorial.
