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  • Published 18 Apr 2016

Auto-Pack packs edited images as internal PNG

With Automatically Pack Into .Blend turned on, one would reasonably assume that Blender automatically saves images into the .Blend.

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While it does technically pack images, any texture painting progress is still lost after saving. Since Pack Image does not work for edited images anyway,

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it would make a lot of sense to pack edited images from disk as an internal PNG when saving while Auto-Pack is on.

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Development Status: Open

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Jonathanlampel
18 Apr 2016

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jason

There's likely a technical reason that makes this non-trivial to implement (either that or there's a desire not to let users unwittingly bloat their .blend files). But I agree, it sure would be nice not to lose that data.

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