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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Same sculpting curve on multiple brushes?
I've looked around the internet, but couldn't find anything about this..
Is there any way to use the same sculpting curve for multiple brushes?
I'd like to first draw sharp along a curve to make a ...
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How to configure how much my cursor need to move to blender start computing a brushstroke? (brush deadzone)
While sculpting i find weird sometimes the distance my cursor has to move, from the moment i touch my tablet with my pen, to start seeing the vertices being affected by my brush, so i was wondering if ...
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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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Inexplicable problems with sculpting "Draw" tool
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I've been having a lot of trouble with the "draw" tool lately, which I use frequently to add texture to objects. I can't figure out what I have done wrong or how to fix it, and I wonder ...
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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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Textured sculpt brushes result in a bulging mesh
I have some textured sculpting brushes that recently have started to bulge the mesh in a cylindrical-like pattern whenever I use them. I don't know if Blender has changed how it looks at sculpt ...
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sculpting is pretty much smooth
hey all I Don t Know what this exactly called, since I m New at scultping watched some tutorial but i really could n't find a solution as far as I know , so I M doing a face sculpting and I am trying ...
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Sculpting brush behaves weirdly
I am still a beginner and I am trying to sculpt a character. However, I faced a problem with the brushes.
Suddenly, the brushes do not fill up the creased places and will not smooth out the surface. I ...
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Why I can't use weight paint for bones?
I want to change weight for the bones of my character, but it doesn't react on my actions. I've tried to disable paint mask mode, to pre-select all faces, but my character still doesn't react.
I only ...
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Texture brush keeps getting automatically changed to smear whenever I undo
I'm in Texture Painting mode and every time I hit ctrl-z or open the file the brush is changed from draw to smear.
I don't think it's a shortcut issue, I've checked the shortcuts and neither z or ...
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Problem with drop off when sculpting rock face
I'm trying to sculpt rock faces in blender. My normal work flow was to append photos sscanned rock textures to my draw brush in sculpt mode and then go from there. Since downloading the newest blender ...
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clay strip adds only on one place
I m using blender and I m having a issue with clay strip brush as it only add to one placeeven if im moving the brush while holding the left mouse buttom.
the last thing I did was to enable Front ...
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Sculpting Brushes Not Working as Intended
I'm trying to learn Blender in order to sculpt characters, but the brushes are not working as intended. I've tried following sculpting tutorials, but they're useless because all of the brushes are ...
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Sculpting on thick areas effects the both sides of the shape
While sculpting on thick areas like ears the brush is effecting the both sides of the thick shape. I have seen some people was using a setting before using brushes on thick areas like this and i ...
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Mesh Boundary Option Sculpting
I’ve never had luck getting the mesh boundary option to work as seen in these GIFs. Turning it on/off under advanced brush settings has no discernible effect, even when increasing propogation steps. I’...
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Why does the comb tool feel super weak?
I'm trying to play around with hair, but when I use the comb brush on a parent curve it takes several strokes just to barely move it, even though the brush is at max strength.
I tried both the ...
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Using VDM Brushes procedurally in Geometry Nodes?
I am fascinated by the new possibilities to use VDM Brushes in Blender. I used the VDM Baker Addon to generate a VDM Texture.
I thought it might be interesting to use these in Geometry Nodes, to ...
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Is there a way to remove brushes from the brush browser?
It's surprisingly hard to find any info about this and it has only led to me accidentally creating more and more duplicates
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All of my sculpting tools stopped working. They are just pushing my mesh down with a lot of intensity even though the strength is all the way down
I'm very new to blender and I decided to try my hand at sculpting. When I was sculpting a piece of clothing I decided to try and experiment with the clothing filter and since then none of my sculpting ...
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Set property/value across all sculpt brushes?
I have purchased a set of 80+ sculpting brushes. Their quality is degraded (distortion) because the falloff is set to "Smooth" instead of "Constant," and their strength value is ...
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Imported Brushes stop working, but stock brushes still work fine
I have imported a series of brushes that I have been using for a project. I am familiar with the tools and use them regularly. I know and understand a basic troubleshooting process if a brush is not ...
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How do I model a cave with realistic textures that show dirt and imperfections in the floor and walls?
I modeled a cave by starting with a cube, subdividing it, increasing the size and flattening the bottom. It looks like this now:
Using dyntopo I made the walls and floors all scratched and scuffed up....
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Cloth Brush making holes when using Multires
I was trying to use the Cloth Brush to add some detail to clothes, but it was creating holes instead.
I tested in a new file and it seems to still be happening. The Cloth Brush works fine if I just ...
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Mask brush in Texture Paint missing stencil
Hi I'm hoping this will be simple, but i couldn't find a thread about this exact issue. I'm just trying to use the 'mask brush' option next to the other brushes in Texture Paint (NOT sculpting) just ...
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Brush packs not working as expected
I downloaded the Orb brush set from blend swap and followed the instructions. It works in some circumstances, but none that help me when teaching blender form portable versions.
I have my students ...
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Only weight paint on visible vertices
How do I only paint on visible vertices?
The brush used in the image a full weight, full strength projected add brush with constant fall-off.
In image A I only want to paint on the visible vertex. ...
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How to stop the mask brush from painting over the same spot twice while in sculpt mode?
I'm using the mask brush with an alpha texture while in sculpt mode, in this case the Voronoi one, to create a crystalized effect by extruding the mask later with the mesh filter brush, but whenever I ...
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all brushes draw differently on different sides
when I use any brush in sculpting mode, I have a problem with how brush work. All brushes draw differently on different sides.
That how it looks after I draw. It's like I used CTRL with one side, but ...
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In sculpt mode, stroke:[curve] is not on top of mesh surface
its not even editing anything its just going through the mesh entirely. into the 3d abyss.
i want to do what this guy is doing here in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uideuXvJNX4
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Texture painting brush
My situation seems pretty easy.
I just haven't painted textures for a long time. So i forgot how to do it properly.
I've got a problem with the brush texture.
I take an image as a brush (transparent ...
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Brush automatically switch to clay after every click
I am having an issue in Sculpt mode where my brush is automatically switching (to clay) after every click. I have tried reinstall blender and restart my laptop, but it does not work. I also reset all ...
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Draw brush missing in texture paint
Have been using the draw tool in texture paint on a model but when I open the file now the tool is completely missing. Is it possible to accidentally delete a brush and if so: How do I get it back?
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Texture Paint edge smothness
The left line of the image is drawn with the smother falloff settings and the right one with sharper but the transition from with to black is nearly the same only the size changes. How can I get the ...
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How can I use a custom skin pore brush to sculpt paint much higher detail?
I am a beginner at this and have been experimenting with creating my own custom skin pore brush in Krita. I've looked up dozens of tutorials on this and I've seen people use very low image sizes for a ...
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Is there a way to sculpt without affecting edge length?
Essentially I want to be able to 'grab' without stretching as the Grab brush does.
For example, when I use the grab brush to move the mesh, it lengthens the edges. I want to keep them the same, just ...
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Smooth Brush is making my model less smooth while sculpting
I am sculpting a human head at the moment and haven't had any issues so far with smoothing out certain parts of the model until very recently.
I already checked on the falloff of the brush and the ...
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When you alternate a sculpting brush with modifier keys, is the alternation the exact same as the actual brush, or the inversion of the current brush?
Since some brushes can be executed while using other brushes, via modifier keys, eg.:
Fill brush, as I understand, is also accessible in ...
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is there a way to automatically have a texture brush align to the middle of the cursor, without adjusting offset values?
Whenever I try to sculpt with an image texture as a brush, I have to manually adjust offset values in texture settings dropdown because part of the image is always cut off, and it takes forever to get ...
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Rim of a mesh is staying rigid in sculpt mode
I have a mesh which can be deformed by the grab brush without any problems except the outer rim of the mesh. For an example, here I added a plain plane and just switched to the scuplt mode grabbing in ...
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Sculpting Brush Cursor - how to default Opacity options to view not hidden?
In sculpting I can see the brush location, it shows as 2 concentric circles. When I click to stroke, the cursor guide disappears. I want to keep something on screen so I can see where the brush is, ...
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What's the algorithmic difference between the cloth simulation and cloth brush?
I use both of them. What I noticed is that for the same geometry the cloth simulation feels to be much heavier and slower than the cloth brush which reacts more or less in real time. Cloth brush can ...
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How to disable blue line in weight paint brush
Found this weird line with the weight paint brush, Does anybody know how to disable it?
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Is there a way to change Grease Pencil brush settings with Python?
I'm trying to change a lot of a brush's properties with the click of one button, like the smoothing, simplify, etc.
A command like ...
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What technique do I use to sculpt a viper snake heat sensing holes?
Hello and sorry in advance if the question is too generic. I'm very new to blender, and struggle to finish one of my very first project. I'm trying to sculpt a blue viper snake head (to be precise the ...
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My sculpting brush is pulling not adding
im fiddling around with sculpting and wanted to make a monster but when i try to add mesh with any brush it just pulls not adds
i dont want it to do this any help would be greatly appreciated
