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Brush and stamps

B brush, S stamp, Esc back to the view tool. Both paint into the selected layer and add the mask they need.

Brush

Paints into the layer's paint mask; on a layer whose color is paint, colors, many in one layer (see layers). [ ] size, ⌥ or E erase, ⇧click a straight line from the last stroke, along the nearest axis (⇧⌘click free; holding ⇧ shows it in the axis color), ⌘click fills the surface under the cursor, bounded by hard edges (with ⌥ empties it), X mirror across x.

• hardness: how far in from the rim the brush fades.
• strength: the most a stroke paints; painting over it doesn't go further.
• soft or pixel: pixel paints whole texels of the texture, hard, pixels across ([ ] one more or less), for details that follow a projected photo.
• grunge: the brush reveals a grunge map, as grunge masks project it, for rust, dirt and chips; more strength shows more of it.

The paint mask's amount scales what is painted; 0.5 keeps it as it is.

Stamps

Click to place, drag to move, ⌥click places a new one over others. A shape you pick is for the next stamp; ⌥click a shape to swap the picked stamp's. Shapes, relief stamps (for the relief blend), decals, your PNGs (+ png) and text: pixel is a 5×7 font that stays readable at low sizes.

The picked stamp has grips: drag the one above it to turn it (⇧ in 15° steps), a corner to pull it over the surface while the opposite corner stays (⇧ keeps its aspect). R rotate 15° (⇧R back), G snap to a grid on the surface, arrows nudge, D duplicate, ⇧click a row from the picked stamp, ⌘click fill the surface under the cursor (the stamp then keeps to that surface, also when sized past it, and to the one it is dragged onto), ⌫ delete.

Layers with colors from image stamps take the colors of decals and images instead of their own. Picking a relief or color decal on a layer that doesn't take them starts one that does (relief or decals).

flat, sunk or raised gives a layer's stamps depth: walls lit by the baked key light and shaded on the other side, a sunk floor darker, bevel as wide as the walls. A plain square, sunk on a relief layer, becomes a shaft; text, raised, embossed letters.