Painting Dino's

[Know_Doubt]

I have no idea how to turn my dino around to paint the 'other side'. When I swipe the dino with my brush, I get one side, I paint, but am unable to turn the dino in the provided "Ark-easel", to get to the other side of said dino...is there a key or some trick to doing this correctly? I'd like to paint the whole dino, not just half...

[Jynn]

CTRL-Right click i believe

or maybe CTRL-Left Click. I know it's CTRL though

[Fogno]

Hold control and use left click (I think? possibly right click) to rotate a dino.

[Know_Doubt]

Thabks guys...I'll check this later.

[HAFFL]

Originally posted by ➷ChaiVat➷:

I have no idea how to turn my dino around to paint the 'other side'. When I swipe the dino with my brush, I get one side, I paint, but am unable to turn the dino in the provided "Ark-easel", to get to the other side of said dino...is there a key or some trick to doing this correctly? I'd like to paint the whole dino, not just half...

You hold cursor over the dino and while holding in the L control ("Ctrl" key on most PCs keyboards), you simultaneously push and HOLD the LMB, then you can turn the dino just about any direction, even upside down. When you get him (or her) where you want em, you let go of the LMB/Ctrl key and he will stay at the spot, and you can paint, or still move it side-to-side using the RMB as before...

With bigger dinos, it is a little tough to get to paint the nose/snout, however (Spiny, Bronto, Rex) because when you turn the head directly toward you to paint that area, you end up "inside" the critter's head (although that makes painting his back teeth and tonsils pretty easy, lol).

I know all this because I just spent 24 hours all over Google researching it so I could finish painting my dinos (I had a pen full of half-painted critters walking around, lol).

[Vantus]

When painting your Dino, it actually tells you the controls on the interface.
It will say something like "CTRL + RMB" or "SHIFT + LMB".

What the painting REALLY needs is a mirror-image feature where you can paint 1 side and have the other side paint identically. If this feature is already in (and not a mod) then please put me out of my misery and tell me how to do it!

[Know_Doubt]

I figured it out...yes, it does have instructions...I just had a brain fart.