Questions tagged [brushes]
This tag is for questions related to Blender's brushes. Blender has many different brushes, which are tools used for sculpting and texture painting. Brushes in Blender have properties such as Radius and Strength and other properties.
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How to Use the Point Erase Mode with the Ctrl Shortcut in Grease Pencil Brush?
In Grease Pencil, I often manually switch from the Brush to the Eraser tool when I want to erase stroke portions, preferring the Point mode.
I recently discovered a shortcut that allows me to hold ...
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How to get the brush pack for Grease Pencil Tools on Blender 4.3?
Using this YouTube tutorial in Blender 4.2 I am able to use this cool grass brush from the extension Grease Pencil Tools. But in Blender 4.3 I cannot find the option Download and import texture brush ...
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How to change paint brush in Blender 4.3 with python?
Up until Blender 4.2 I could change my brush like this:
my_brush = D.brushes['my_brush']
C.tool_settings.image_paint.brush = my_brush
Now in Blender 4.3 with the ...
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No hotkeys are assigned to the sculpt brush
Blender 4.3
In Sculpt Mode and Paint Mode, I assign hotkeys to brushes via the right-click menu. But when pressing these hotkeys, an error is displayed: ...
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ANT Landscape and VDM brush problem
I was experimenting with creating a noise brush for sculpting by using ANT Landscape and VDM brush together, manually unwrapping the plane. My first attempt was a success, and I managed to create a ...
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How can I create Benday dots/Halftones for my 2D Blender Animation
So i am new to 2D animation in blender, and for my project i needed to create a pop art animation, but unfortunately i couldn't find texture brush or anything related/ to create a benday dots or ...
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subtract brush cannot remove weight from model in weight painting
i tried all brushes and none of them can affect this point of model, i set brush setting to max weight and strength but it still cant remove that while it still able to remove weight from every other ...
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Sculpting brushes
Everytime I try to sculpt all of the brushes become giant and pixelated,I made sure my shapes are decent size and changed the brush sizes to a smaller one but nothing works. For example with the draw ...
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Is it possible to group sculpting brushes to adjust settings for selected brushes only?
This is my goal:
I want to group certain brushes to share a brush size setting. I imagine it like in Nomad Sculpt, for those who are familiar. Brushes that are used for broad strokes like draw or clay ...
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Orb brush sculpts a lot of dots instead of a smooth line
I have tried every single setting for this orb cracks smooth edge brush and no matter what I do, it sculpts these weird dots like somehow I am pressing harder (which I'm not).
I tried changing the ...
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Texture Paint not working or being weird
I'm not sure what I did but I keep having this issue where I'm unable to paint with my brush or the color is really light. I don't think its an opacity or blending mode issue. I'm new to blender so I ...
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Can I use orphaned OOTB brushes?
In my Blender files, I noticed I only have one brush for Texture Paint (and probably other modes). In view orphans, it looks like there are a lot brush presets. Can I add them to my set of brushes and ...
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I got blocked to use brush
After selecting object and switching to weight paint mode, not able to apply any brush on specific vertex group in Blender 4.2 LTS update.
Never faced such problem in previous version.
Here in above ...
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How can I access the Blur, Smear and Gradient tool for weight painting in Blender 4.2.1?
I can't find any help in the manual on where the tools are. There are apparently in the Blend options but they aren't there either.
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Can I Make the SLIDE RELAX Brush in Sculpt Mode Behave like the TWEAK Brush from RetopoFlow?
The Slide Relax brush in Sculpt Mode will reposition topological features without also changing any actual surface positions. This is handy, but would be handier if it worked the same way the Tweak ...
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Pen tool scroll
Working in grease pencil with a drawing table. Under the "tool" menu I see my "Brushes" and I use the mouse scroll wheel to scroll through the brushes. Is there a way to scroll ...
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Texture paint mode poor brush strokes quality
When I draw in Texture paint mode in 3d editor my brush has poor quality strokes - no anti-aliasing, black artifacts around the stroke. But when draw in UV Image edit - everything is fine, strokes are ...
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Dyntopo not adding new geometry while using custom brushes from blenderkit
I tried using custom brushes, but the Dyntopo feature didn't work. I set it to constant detail at a value of 100, yet the brush behaved as if Dyntopo wasn't enabled. Does anyone have a solution?
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Help with Mask brush Settings 4.2
I cannot figure out why my mask brush is jittery. To my knowledge, I've checked/unchecked all options that might be causing this problem, to no avail. How do I reset the brush to a smooth stroke, with ...
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Shortcut W isn't working in sculpt mode
In sculpt mode when trying to open the tool brushes pie menu with the key W this error appears:
Tool 'builtin.select_box' not found for space 'VIEW_3D'.
I have ...
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Blender sculpting Area vs View brush option
I'm trying to sculpt using an alpha but whenever a stroke is applied on a curved surface it stretches. I feel like the area and view option is not working properly.
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How do I paint and sculpt with a ''Connected only'' brush? Like edit mode has
So instead of weight painting in a 3d sphere, which also catched onto close geometry, painting in a connected only manner, that only edit mode has as far as I know.
If this logic exists for edit mode, ...
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How can I preview the result of Texture Node Editor
I'm trying to use Texture Node Editor creating brushes' texture. But I can't preview the result, it's black either in brush's settings or Texture Property. Although it works well when I use the brush ...
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How to set the brush falloff for all brushes in a single step?
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I have imported 100 brushes to work with, each has a different individual setup.
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Is there a way to set the Falloff to "Smoother" on each of them in a single step?
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Imported sculpt brushes bulging and / or distorting mesh
As shown in the picture the imported / appended sculpt brush bulges the mesh outwards or erratically distorts it, sometimes both! As shown in the picture the brush is just supposed to stamp a bolt on ...
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Sculpt Mode - Transform Brush - How to Uniform Scale (All Axes)
Is it possible to perform a uniform scale operation within the Transform brush? I've only been able to scale for individual axes, and had to use Scale brush for uniform scale.
Other 3D programs ...
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How to delete GP stroke in 3d viewport?
This has been bugging me for a while. How do I get rid of the little floating GP stroke in the 3d workspace but still keep the brushstrokes on my object? It's really annoying and I can't find a way to ...
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Is there a method for using Photoshop .abr brushes within grease pencil?
Tutorials I found aren't clear on how to import them. I tried using converted PNGs, but the color of the stroke stays white and looks bad.
Straightforward steps on how to do this would be very helpful!...
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How to make edges of texture brush harder in blender 4.1?
image as visualization for what I mean.
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Alpha Texture Brush isn't working?
I have Blender 4.1 and I'm trying to draw on scales with a brush from Blenderkit and there's no texture visible when I brush on the object it just creates this weird bump. I tried the brush out with ...
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Blender 4.1 python-controlled sculpt brush strokes: how do I get strokes instead of dabs?
I'm writing a script to generate brush thumbnails for my library of alpha brushes. I can't figure out how to make proper brush strokes (continuous movements) with Python - only individual dabs in XYZ ...
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Why circle signifying brush in sculp mode isn’t round?
I can’t do round circle-shape touch in sculpt mode, my stretch brush draws stripes.
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Custom brushed not imported as a single image
I'm importing a custom Alpha brush, although I have selected it as a single image, the brush looks like this:
I am trying to make dents into the mesh which is using a multiresolution modifier.
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Flickering strokes when changing stroke depth order to 3D location in Grease Pencil
Hello Blender Community,
When I change the stroke depth order to 3D location, strokes drawn with a brush that has opacity appear to flicker depending on the viewing angle. Is there any solution or ...
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Which of painting modes is correct for usual drawing in weight paint mode?
In weight paint mode I can draw with higher values:
but I can't redraw mesh with lower values. As I remember the problem could be in brush blend mode (which is selected to ...
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What's wrong with my front face only option?
I'm new to Blender, and I'm following a tutorial.
But when I'm sculpting, I have a problem with the rendering compared to the video.
In the tutorial, we use the "Clay strips" brush with an ...
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How to Draw Hair Curves using python API?
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I'm using Blender 3.6 (but I don't think there's a difference if you use 4.0) and am trying to add hair curves onto the surface of a mesh. I'm able to do this via the GUI, however I'm unable ...
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What is the scaling factor of the grease pencil brush radius when using thickness as World space?
The brush radius of the grease pencil is exposed in "pixels" in the UI and in the API.
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brush lag, freeze errors
no matter which version of the blender programme I use, I encounter stuttering and delay errors. especially when working in 2d, the brush tool starts to delay after 3-4 minutes of use. I have ...
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Weight paint brush behaving weirdly
The brush in weight painting mode is acting really strangely for me. It barely seems to go over the parts that I'm trying to paint, or like it can only hit very specific spots. It's making it very ...
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sculpting Clay strip brush mirror issue
I have such strange problem when draw with clay strip brush a "circle shapes" (on the left) with mirror enabled. Not sure know if it was like this before, I just noticed this. How can I fix ...
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while sculpting in blender, my inflate brush shows pink lines but doesn't inflate the geometry
I'm Vishakh. I'm new to sculpting in Blender. While sculpting in blender, my inflate brush shows pink lines but doesn't inflate the geometry. I'm not sure what settings need to modified so I reset to ...
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Are custom shortcuts broken by migrating from 3.x to 4.0?
In Blender 3.5 I made B the brush shortcut in Grease Pencil Draw mode, when I updated to Blender 4.0 the shortcut no longer works and starts a 'box selection' operation. The E shortcut for the eraser ...
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Blender Clay Strips Brush Tool only add on the edges of surfaces?
When I try to use the clay strips it only adds on the edge of the circle brush instead of center. I tried some fixes but nothing works.
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why are my all my brushes producing spikey results to my model?
so I cnt+J two objects and remeshed in sculpt mode. When i use the draw or grab brushes i get this spikey brush result? i applied scale in object mode, not sure how to fix it, please help!
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Brush in sculpt mode rotate
the brush began to spin according to the shape of the figure.
How to solve this problem?
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How to avoid Jagged edges using custom brush in sculpt mode
I have made a custom brush. I have divided my mesh and has almost 1 million vertices. When I'm in sculpt mode, the custom brush pattern looks more smooth, when I exit sculpt mode the edges become ...
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Stop Texture paint from overlapping when strenghts is lower than 1
When I go into texture paint and try to paint with a strenght less than 1 and I "raise" the brush it will overlay the previous stroke, thus darkening it (or strenghtening it).
Edit: I would ...
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brush not painting onto neither UV or live view model
so I've been using Blender for quite a while now and made multiple models in the texture paint tab without many issues. This time it's causing me some confusion.
As I paint with stabilizing stroke &...
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