Paint in the scene view

When you paint in the scene view, simple strokes display as curves. Strokes with tubes display as wireframe representations of the rendered stroke. Paint is not applied to the strokes until you do a post-process render, which makes painting in the scene view very quick. It provides immediate feedback in enough detail to see what you’re doing. To improve redraw speed, you can adjust the display quality of the wireframe strokes, just as you can adjust the display quality of objects displayed as wireframe.

Paint in the scene view when speed is an issue, but the final appearance of the strokes is not (for example, when you want to move strokes, or when you are painting many strokes with the same brush).

Note

Painting in orthogonal views gives unexpected results. Paint in the Perspective view instead.

To display the scene painting view

On the view menu bar, select Panels > Panel > Paint Effects to open the Paint Effects panel. The Paint Effects Tool is automatically selected.
TipAs a shortcut, press the 8 hotkey to open the Paint Effects panel in the workspace. For information on other Paint Effects hotkeys, see Use default Paint Effects hotkeys.
You can open the Paint Effects panel as a separate window by selecting Window > Paint Effects.
Select Paint > Paint Scene. The Paint Effects scene painting view displays.

For information on changing the display resolution of the scene and displaying the RGB display, alpha, and luminance planes, see Painting in the Paint Effects Panel. These features are common to both canvas and scene modes of the Paint Effects panel.

Refresh the scene painting view

Zooming, tumbling, tracking, or dollying the scene painting view takes a new snapshot of your scene, rendering strokes according to the options you select on the Stroke Refresh menu. These options include:

Off: Strokes display as wireframe at their display quality when you zoom, tumble, track, or dolly the view.
Wireframe: Strokes display as wireframe at 100% display quality when you zoom, tumble, track, or dolly the view.
Rendered: All strokes render when you zoom, tumble, track, or dolly the view.
Selected Only: Only selected strokes render when you zoom, tumble, track, or dolly the view. Unselected strokes display as Wireframe (100% display quality).

To render all strokes in the scene

Do one of the following:
- Click the Redraw button on the toolbar.
- Select Stroke Refresh > Rendered.
  Tip
  If you have complex strokes in the scene that are taking a long time to redraw, press the Esc key on your keyboard to stop the redraw.

Paint in the scene view

Refresh the scene painting view

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