3.0.0

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FIXED

  - The "reinstall the plugin" warning compared the plugin running inside

    Painter against the ADD-ON's version number. With this bridge on its own

    line those two numbers differ on purpose, so the warning would have shown

    a red error nobody could clear - reinstalling installs the very plugin it

    was complaining about.

    It now compares the plugin Painter is running against the plugin this

    add-on ships, which is what it was always trying to ask:

      "Painter is running plugin 2.25.27; this add-on ships 2.25.28."

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2.25.27

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CHANGED

  - Getting Started walks the whole round trip. It was three steps - pick

    Painter, install the plugin, send a mesh - and then it stopped, which is

    exactly where it was needed: this bridge is a round trip, and the textures

    coming back were never mentioned.

    It is now eight, in the order of the job:

      1. Pick Painter            \

      2. Install the plugin       |  the bridge itself

      3. Select a mesh to send   \

      4. Set up what you send     |  the send

      5. Send a mesh             /

      6. Set up the textures     \   the way back

      7. Get textures from Painter/

      8. Try Live Sync               the version that needs no buttons

    Each step ticks for its own reason. The settings steps tick once you have

    opened that folder, by hand or with "show me", which opens it for you.

    "Get textures" ticks when you press Get, and also when Painter reports an

    export of its own that produced files. Live Sync ticks when you switch it

    on, or when you have simply looked at it - so the tour can be finished by

    someone who does not want live sync.

    Before you open them, the settings steps say what is inside ("maps,

    format, reload"). What you have seen is remembered between sessions.

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2.25.26

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CHANGED

  - The Live Textures switch moved up, into the row of buttons under Send and

    Get, on the viewport card and in the sidebar panel. It is the switch that

    makes saving in Painter update Blender, and it was three folders down.

    Its settings - the Live folder, the minimum gap between exports, and the

    push options - stay in the Live Sync folder. Only the switch moved.

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2.25.25

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FIXED

  - Live Textures failed on every save, which is the one moment it exists for.

    The bridge reported:

      "live failed - export refused the configuration - The project is locked."

    Painter locks the project while it saves, and announces the save before it

    releases the lock. The bridge heard the announcement and exported straight

    away, so Painter refused - and the wording sent people off to check their

    export preset, which was never the problem.

    The export now waits for Painter to finish: it holds off while Painter

    reports itself busy, and a lock that outlives that is retried for six

    seconds before anything is called a failure. If a project really does stay

    locked that long, the message says so ("a save or a bake was still

    running") instead of blaming the configuration.

    A hand-pressed Export still answers at once - you are waiting for it, so it

    does not sit in a retry loop.

    This fix is in the Painter-side plugin. Reinstall the plugin to get it.

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2.25.24

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FIXED

  - "Get Textures from Painter" did nothing, whatever you set. Not sometimes:

    always. Blender gives one class to one operator, and "Export This Template"

    was built on top of Get Textures to share its code, which left Get Textures

    without a class of its own - so Blender could never ask whether it was

    ready, assumed it was not, and greyed the button out or refused with

    "context is incorrect". Nothing in the settings could fix it.

    Both buttons now work.

ADDED

  - Get can make the folder for you. Painter has to export somewhere, and until

    now that meant finding the Textures folder setting and picking one before

    anything could happen. Press Get with no folder set and it asks whether to

    use a temporary one; Yes makes a folder named after your .blend, exports

    into it, and imports the maps back from it.

    It says plainly that the folder is temporary and that the system clears it

    in time, so set a folder of your own for work you are keeping. "Export This

    Template" asks the same question.

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2.25.22

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CHANGED

  - Texture Watch starts once, and stays off when you stop it. A Send or a Get

    starts it only while you have not switched it off yourself; stopping it by

    hand is remembered in the .blend file, and only turning it on by hand

    starts it again.

  - A running Texture Watch is lit on the viewport card, so a glance tells you

    it is on.

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2.25.21

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CHANGED

  - Texture Watch moved to where you can see it: directly under Send and Get,

    instead of inside the Textures Back folder where it read as an

    afterthought. It is what brings Painter's exports back by itself.

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2.25.19

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ADDED

  - The viewport card. The bridge can draw itself as a card in the 3D viewport

    instead of a panel in the sidebar: the same buttons and settings, with

    search, favourites you pin yourself, a getting-started tour, and

    explanations attached to each control. The way back to the panel is the

    button at the card's top right.

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2.25.7

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FIXED

  - The Painter plugin reports the same version as the add-on again. 2.25.6

    left it a version behind, which made the bridge ask for a reinstall that

    was not needed.