Instance Painter Panel

Description

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The Instance Painter Panel is a panel which allows you to paint visuals in batches. Instances are used by surfaces (e.g. fire sprites on the fire surface, lilies on the blessed water surface) and are most commonly used for painting foliage such as grass.

To use the Instance Painter Panel:

1. Import a visual
2. Select it in the Visual List
3. Enable the Paint interaction mode
4. Begin painting!

Components

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The Instance Painter Panel consists of the following components:

1. Save/Load
2. Menu
3. Visual list
4. Interaction modes
5. Visual properties
6. Tools

Menu

The Menu , left to right, consists of:

1. Import New Visual
2. Delete Visual
3. Swap Visual
4. Set Burn Visual
5. Set Destroy Visual
6. Toggle Shadow on Visual (turns shadows on the selected visual on/off)
7. Toggle Visibility of Visual (turns visibility of the selected visual on/off)

Interaction Modes

The interaction modes, from left to right, consist of:

1. Checkout Cells
2. Paint
3. Align
4. Update

Additionally, the Interaction Modes section has:

• A toggle to turn on terrain-only picking
  • When turned on, your paint brush will paint only on the terrain
  • When turned off, your paint brush will paint on scenery as well
• A slider to set the radius of your paint brush