Paint Mode - Turn off Environment Light
I'm not quite sure how to explain this, but here's what I was running into. While I was doing the Painting Tutorial, I kept finding myself growing increasingly frustrated as any time I painted, the color of my paint would end up being significantly darker than the color I picked. Bright green would be a dark green, bright red would be practically maroon. I left the tutorial and just tried painting in a blank environment to see if that would help. Same result.
Finally, however, I noticed that the color of my paint strokes changed depending on the angle they were at and realized that my problem was due to the "sun" hitting the paint in different ways.
I'd recommend that, while in paint mode, the environment be unaffected by lights. Or at least have the option as a toggle (if it is one, I haven't found it.) I've tried pointing a spot light at my area of work, but sort of has the reverse effect of making my colors too bright.
Is this something anyone else finds frustrating? What are your recommendations for frustration-free painting?
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On a side note, overall I am LOVING Dreams, Mm. Thank you so much for all of your hard work!
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Found my own answer, but I will leave this post here for anyone else who runs into the same problem.
Under guides, turn on Studio Lighting and the colors will look right while you're in paint mode.
Mm, maybe add that tip to the tutorial? -
Nice, man. I was wondering about this so thanks for letting us know. On your side note, I am LOVING Dreams as well!
It's like learning a new instrument for me. I'm at the phase where my ambitions greatly outweigh my skills, lol. Gotta power through! Peace out and good luck! -
About that studio lighting, It actually messed me up last night. I was doing something and I had studio lighting on so that I could see what I was doing without shadows and whatnot, anyway, I created a sculpture that I wanted to glow. I kept sliding the glow to the right and it just wasn't glowing that much. I thought, hmm, maybe it's because of the color and looseness of the object? Anyway, I had to slide waaaay to the right to get the faint glow I wanted. I turned OFF studio lighting and was nearly blinded by the glow on my screen. So sometimes that studio lighting can be misleading.
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Definitely, Jester. It's going to be one of those things where the artist will learn when to have it on and when to have it off. If you're painting or sculpting something specific to the scene and have already figured out your lighting, then it's probably best to not have studio lighting on.
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