Polypaint and texture maps are two different things. If you want to paint directly on the map you should be using Polypaint, and only use the Texture Map sub-pallet when you're ready to convert it. When Polypaint is turned off, the tool will use the currently selected color and material (which makes it a quick way to…
The color of your model changes because the model lacks polypaint data, or you have polypaint disabled. The default color that most matcaps work with is white, so have that color selected if your polypaint data is off/nonexistent. Symmetry is per SubTool. Switching to a different SubTool will require symmetry to be toggled…
Right, so if the 2d surface of my object becomes one colour again i can get my work back by making sure that polypaint is on and i won't have lost my work? I'm also experiencing ANOTHER recent issue, mainly just when painting. For some reason symmetry keeps turning itself off even though i'm not pressing X, and i keep…