I am on WIndows 10 and using Blender v2.93.6.
I am running into an issue that can be summarized as this: I am using an image texture on one of my meshes, then texture painting on top of it. When I create an entirely separate mesh and try to create a material that uses an image texture, it completely erases all texture painting I did on my other model, and the loss cannot be undone by Ctrl+Z.
Here are the steps that can be reliably followed to recreate this issue:
- Select entire mesh.
- Create brand new material for the mesh (mine is in the shape of a sign, so I'll name it m_sign).
- Set "Surface" to Emission, set the color to use an image texture. Here is the image texture used:
It is a small 48x48 checkerboard texture.
After setting texture interpolation to "closest", renaming the image texture from "PixelTextureGrid_48" (the original name of the image file) to "Sign", and UV unwrapping, here is what my mesh and workspace looks like:
I then perform my texture painting, after which my model and UV map look like this:
After this, I create a brand new blank plane. This will be grass. I name the plane "Grass", and I create a brand new Emission material for it named m_grass:
This is the problem step. Much like with the sign, I would like to assign my 48x48 pixel grid image texture, so I can paint on this object and make it look like grass. I choose to open an image file, and like I did with the sign I open the "PixelTextureGrid_48.png" file:
The instant that file is opened, I completely lose all texture painting done on the sign. The Grass object believes it is using the "Sign" image texture, and over in the UV editor, the preview for my "Sign" texture still has the colors on it, but actually selecting that texture shows the default image. All progress is lost, and it cannot be undone
What is the intended flow for trying to create two materials using image textures that come from the same original image file? And where is my texture paiting progress stored? Since the original image clearly isn't modified if I go to it in my file explorer.