Paul, Ive read your post several times and still dont understand, lol...

I see now that what im asking is way beyong Carraras capabilities (at this time), let me describe a bit better...

To quickly explain, lets imagine you could, instead of choose a paint brush preset that uses a texture to paint with, we could choose a proceedural shader to paint with, having all its proceedural "goodness" intact. We could paint seamlessly on surfaces, and be able to edit the shader in the normal way, both before AND after the painting...

I think what youre doing, is applying 2 seperate painting jobs and then using the Mixer to blend them (the texture for the blend function of course can be painted as well), as youre saying, That is, pretty slick Paul, I must admit... The input is greatly appreciated, thanks.

(I know, what the hell was I thinking, no way Carrara can do what Im asking =P)

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