Painting
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Rob World has given you the ability to PAINT! Create paintings in-game, or upload and convert your own images to works of art. Here's the basics to get started painting.
To start painting, you must aquire a MCPaint Studio. It can be created by throwing an Egg at a vanilla painting, which grants the "True Tempera Paint" advancement.
You can open the Studio's menu by R-MOUSE CLICKING with an empty hand. This gives you a Brush, which lets you interact with the menu by moving your cursor and R-MOUSE CLICKING. The menu that opens is shown below.
Right above the canvas where you can paint sits the file menu. This shows the name and size of your file, and holds the following buttons:
Save: This saves your file. If you haven't named your file yet, it will open the "Save As" menu instead.
Save As: This opens a menu where you can choose a name for your file. You can set the name by writing it in the first page of a Book and Quill, and clicking the "Set name from Book and Quill" button with your Brush. Filenames can be between 1 and 24 characters long and must not contain quotes, backslashes, or newlines.
Load: This opens a menu where you can browse through all your files. You can load them into the studio to edit them again, and you can delete unwanted old files in this menu. In this menu you can also encode your paintings as a base64 code to share it with others (see Sharing paintings).
New File: This opens a menu where you can create a new file. The arrows allow you to choose the size of the painting, up to 4x4 blocks. By default the resolution of the painting will be 16x the size in blocks, but you can change this as well. For example, you can have a painting that only has 1 pixel to create a lag-friendly flat coloured painting for your personal void room or green-screen.
Export: This gives you a Custom Painting that links to the currently opened file. Make sure your file is saved, or the custom painting will still display the old data. If you are in survival mode, exporting will consume 1 vanilla painting item.
Import code: This allows you to import a base64 encoded image to your saved paintings. For more information, see: Sharing paintings.
Undo: Undoes the last action. You can press the swap item with offhand key (F) while holding the Brush as a shortcut.
Redo: Redoes the last undone action. This is the same shortcut as before, but while holding sneak.
All information about your custom paintings is stored in a global, per-player database. This means that once you save your painting to a file, you can safely break the Studio, place it down somewhere else, and find your file again. Each file is identified by a unique filename, so it is not possible to give two paintings the same name. Two different players can both have a file with the same name, however.
By using Shears on a Custom Painting, it removes the painting's background and grants the "The Greatest Graffitist" advancement.
Using Deepslate on a Custom Painting sets the painting background to a blackboard.
Using Wool on a Custom Painting sets the painting's background to its default.
Paint Buckets are a block that let you save additional colours in your palette. When you are using the Studio, you can R-MOUSE CLICK a Paint Bucket (while not holding the brush) to set the colour in the bucket as the Studio's active colour. If you right-click while sneaking, it will save the active colour from the Studio into the Paint Bucket.
You can craft a Paint Bucket using a Bucket and three of any Dye. Paint Buckets can be placed off the normal block grid, which allows you to place multiple inside the same block space. Breaking a Paint Bucket will retain the colour inside.
You can also set the colour of a Paint Bucket by right-clicking with any Dye item. This will grant the Conventional Colours advancement. Furthermore, you can use a Book and Quill to set the colour to an HTML colour code (e.g. #029A2F). This will grant the Colour Theory advancement.
More information about importing custom images and exporting in-game ones through the web can all be found of the main MC Paint wiki here.
