I suggest you take a look at Blender 2.4X databrowser (Shift F4), it had a way to manage fake users (f). In 2.5 you have to use the outliner in databrowse mode bu its not as easy/fast
Daniel Salazar www.3developer.com On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jason Wilkins <[email protected]>wrote: > Brushes all have an extra reference count that keeps them from getting > deleted even when there is no paint mode that references one of them. So > it > is possible to unlink a brush from every paint mode and it will still be > saved in the .blend. This apparently isn't a problem and is the purpose of > the fake user, however there is no interface that will allow a user to > permanently delete this brush or relink it into a paint mode again. The > result is that if a user creates and deletes lots of brushes they will > cruft > up the his saved files needlessly. When I was editing startup.blend I > created/deleted several brushes while creating a new set. I noticed this > problem and used the debugger to skip saving any brushes that were not in > use by any of the paint modes. > > I'm assuming that the fake user acts as some sort of recycle bin so that > deleted objects can be retrieved so I think the main problem here is the > inability to recover brushes that have been unlinked. In fact, there is no > way to even, for example, link a brush used in texture paint into vertex > paint or something like that. (I may be wrong, before I changed it, the > same Draw brush was linked into 3 different paint modes, but as far as I > can > tell I do not know how that was done). > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
