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For the upcoming "Bake to Paint" tool, an option for the resulting object to be a sculpt

TheBeardyMan

The "In the Works" column of the Trello lists a "Bake to Paint" tool for converting multiple sculpts into a single paint. The rationale for the resulting object being a paint is well known - there's no general solution for the problem of making a construction history for a single sculpt identical to the union of several sculpts.

But there are some cases with known solutions:

  • All of the edits in all of the sculpts are non-mirror-clipped adds - concatenate the construction histories of the sculpts in any order, converting any mirrored and / or kaleidoscoped adds in sculpts after the first sculpt to groups of single shape adds.
  • All of the edits in all but one of the sculpts are non-mirror-clipped adds - concatenate the construction histories of the sculpts, placing the history of the only sculpt with non-adds or mirror-clipped adds first, and converting any mirrored and / or kaleidoscoped adds in sculpts after the first sculpt to groups of single shape adds.

For sets of sculpts satisfying one of those conditions, there should be an option for the resulting object to be a sculpt - creating the construction history for the new sculpt has a known solution, so no need to warn the creator that the results might not be what they expect.

Perhaps the option should be there even for sets of sculpts that don't satisfy any of the conditions - but for those cases, the tool should display a warning of possible unexpected results.

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  • Skn3--

    I agree! A solution to the mirror stuff: Just simply treat the bake operation as exactly that. Any and all "operations" are baked. The resulting gemotry can't be modified. It is treated as one. Once baked, you open the sculpt for editing and select it. Dreams hides away all the "edits" within and you can not reach them. The beauty of this... Duplication! You could create for example a piece of highly detailed dirt sculpt. Bake it. It is now a solid sculpt, so now still within sculpt mode do 1000 duplications. A well known technique to avoid filling up thermo with copies of objects. The only difference is, it would now be officialyl supported and easy for all!

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