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the circle i'm talking about is this blue circle

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whenever i starts brushing with any brush in sculpt mode the circle disappears but i need it to be revealed. is there any way to keep it revealed

i'm using blender 2.82a

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As of July 2020, there does not seem to be an option in Blender to display the sculpting circle cursor during a stroke.

This seems like a huge oversight and workflow regression in my opinion. Sculpting with pressure-dependent radius feels like I'm trying to paint using an invisible brush.

However, there is a code contribution on developer.blender.org that adds this functionality back in:

⚙ D6324 Sculpt: Sculpt plane cursor preview (https://developer.blender.org/D6324)

It appears to be in need of work. They want some code changes, as well as explanations of why it's a positive change.

If you'd like to see this feature added, and you know how to code or just have time to spare, maybe consider leaving a thoughtful comment or helping with the maintenance on the linked code.

As a workaround, I've been enabling "Falloff Opacity" under "Cursor" in the brush settings. Running this line in a Python Console view will do it for all brushes: [[setattr(b, 'use_cursor_overlay', True), setattr(b, 'cursor_overlay_alpha', 5)] for b in bpy.data.brushes.values()].

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  • $\begingroup$ oh, Thank you very much for these infos, but unfortunately i dont have that much experience codding with python :\ $\endgroup$
    – user76612
    Commented Jul 23, 2020 at 17:08
  • $\begingroup$ @YonalJayasinghe As a workaround, I've been enabling "Falloff Opacity" under "Cursor" in the brush settings. Running this line in a Python Console view will do it for all brushes: [[setattr(b, 'use_cursor_overlay', True), setattr(b, 'cursor_overlay_alpha', 5)] for b in bpy.data.brushes.values()]. $\endgroup$
    – Will Chen
    Commented Nov 16, 2020 at 19:24
  • $\begingroup$ @WillChen All I get when I enter that code is: [[None, None], [None, None]... repeated a 100 times give or take. $\endgroup$
    – Eric Huelin
    Commented May 9, 2021 at 18:38
  • $\begingroup$ @EricHuelin Yes. setattr() returns None after doing its work. Check your sculpt brushes; they should all have the cursor overlay enabled after running that line. $\endgroup$
    – Will Chen
    Commented May 9, 2021 at 18:50
  • $\begingroup$ @WillChen I was hoping that would bring back my Texture paint brush cursor. No such luck. $\endgroup$
    – Eric Huelin
    Commented May 9, 2021 at 19:08

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