Go try blender versions before 2.5 for a laugh, it's impressive how much usability improved around then. It's still a juggernaut of an application though so I doubt it'll ever get easy to use. Sure did get easier though.
Texture painting (and any images in general) are saved as separate files in blender by default! They're not saved as part of your .blend file. You can press alt+s while your mouse is in the image viewer (or just click the image dropdown menu at the top of the image viewer, which should have an asterisk if your image is unsaved) to save the image.
Alternatively, you CAN pack the images into the blend file! Under the file menu in the top left, select external data > pack resources. Then, whenever you save your blend file it should ask if you want to save the image too. note: you DO need to have saved a separate copy of the image first for this to work, but you do NOT need to keep the separate copy after you've packed the file.
The half rod goes in the square hole
dude! why can't you just exist!
(unlike on reddit, on lemmy you can reply to deleted comments :) )
Blender is so powerful but by golly the user interface has such a huge learning curve.
If only it were as easy to use as the old Google SketchUp (no idea if it is still any good ever since it got sold off).
Go try blender versions before 2.5 for a laugh, it's impressive how much usability improved around then. It's still a juggernaut of an application though so I doubt it'll ever get easy to use. Sure did get easier though.
Such joyous, look at all that joy
The pain is real. I'm currently losing all of my texture painting work when I shut the file. I have no idea why. I save everything twice.
Texture painting (and any images in general) are saved as separate files in blender by default! They're not saved as part of your .blend file. You can press alt+s while your mouse is in the image viewer (or just click the image dropdown menu at the top of the image viewer, which should have an asterisk if your image is unsaved) to save the image.
Alternatively, you CAN pack the images into the blend file! Under the file menu in the top left, select external data > pack resources. Then, whenever you save your blend file it should ask if you want to save the image too. note: you DO need to have saved a separate copy of the image first for this to work, but you do NOT need to keep the separate copy after you've packed the file.
From the depths of my soul, thank you. I tried finding a solution yesterday but they were all really old and not working.