Sculpt Paint tool defaults #97616

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Julien Kaspar · 2022-04-26T10:14:01+02:00

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-04-26 10:14:01 +02:00

(NOTE) This task is part of the community & sub tasks of the workboard. Anyone is free to pick up this task and contribute. For any questions or needed reviewers, please tag @JosephEagar and @JulienKaspar.

The current default settings for the Paint and Smear brushes in sculpt mode are not ideal and need to be updated for their first release for a better out of the box experience.

Paint Brush

Set Strength to a value of 1
Set default color to black, with white as the secondary color

Smear Brush

Set Strength to 0.6

Color Filter

Set filter type to "Fill"
Set Fill Color to pure white

(NOTE) This task is part of the community & sub tasks of the workboard. Anyone is free to pick up this task and contribute. For any questions or needed reviewers, please tag @JosephEagar and @JulienKaspar. The current default settings for the Paint and Smear brushes in sculpt mode are not ideal and need to be updated for their first release for a better out of the box experience. ## Paint Brush - Set Strength to a value of 1 - Set default color to black, with white as the secondary color ## Smear Brush - Set Strength to 0.6 ## Color Filter - Set filter type to "Fill" - Set Fill Color to pure white

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-04-26 10:14:02 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Needs Developer To Reproduce'

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-04-26 10:14:02 +02:00

Added subscribers: @JulienKaspar, @JosephEagar

Ramil Roosileht commented

2022-04-29 19:49:02 +02:00

Added subscriber: @Limarest

Ramil Roosileht commented

2022-04-29 19:49:02 +02:00

Default brush color definitely shouldn't be black though. Maybe make it 0.5,0.5,0.5?

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-04-29 21:09:01 +02:00

Changing the default brush color is something I'd like to see changed in all modes. The default right now is white, with black as the secondary color. So if you try painting when opening Blender for the first time you will see no effect ...
I'd be fine with the default primary color being black and the secondary color white. It's the most standard behaviour you could expect from any painting application that has a white canvas.

Changing the default brush color is something I'd like to see changed in all modes. The default right now is white, with black as the secondary color. So if you try painting when opening Blender for the first time you will see no effect ... I'd be fine with the default primary color being black and the secondary color white. It's the most standard behaviour you could expect from any painting application that has a white canvas.

Craig Jones commented

2022-04-29 21:22:25 +02:00

Added subscriber: @CraigJones

Craig Jones commented

2022-04-29 21:22:25 +02:00

As a non-dev here, I need to ask if the defaults are being changed to Texture paint as well as Sculpt paint, because default generated image is black so that is why the default main brush is supposed to be white - for painting masks out of the gate right away? Is sculpt to be handled in an opposite fashion or will they both be aligned? Full strength is great and a welcome change to the main brush, same for the change to smear tool - but the canvas being white with sculpt paint and black with texture paint might throw a wrench along somewhere I think.

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-04-29 21:40:46 +02:00

@CraigJones Thanks for the info on texture paint. That makes sense. I think the default brush color can be discussed separately then for other modes.

Craig Jones commented

2022-04-29 21:46:23 +02:00

Grease Pencil uses this white canvas/black initial brush - but like I said, a brush image assumes black to be alpha and white is pass through of the color, same for painting a stencil in eevee/cycles node tree, I think Krita as a 2d painter assumes a user will start with a white canvas and need to see a mark like Grease Pencil does, but Krita isn't used for making the mask itself first, it is for the image painting/texture first. JUst a difference of intended output I think.

Exciting stuff.

Grease Pencil uses this white canvas/black initial brush - but like I said, a brush image assumes black to be alpha and white is pass through of the color, same for painting a stencil in eevee/cycles node tree, I think Krita as a 2d painter assumes a user will start with a white canvas and need to see a mark like Grease Pencil does, but Krita isn't used for making the mask itself first, it is for the image painting/texture first. JUst a difference of intended output I think. Exciting stuff.

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-05-08 14:57:46 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Developer To Reproduce' to: 'Confirmed'

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-06-30 12:13:36 +02:00

Raising the priority just like #97957 for the Blender 3.3 release, to polish the sculpt painting toolset.

Julien Kaspar commented

2022-09-28 10:27:41 +02:00

Will lower the priority for now. This will likely be adressed with the current brush management project.

Sun Kim commented

2022-09-28 11:22:58 +02:00

Added subscriber: @persun

Sun Kim commented

2022-09-28 11:22:58 +02:00

I'll also add that spacing value for gradient color's Repeat and Clamp modes should have much higher number. They don't work with the default 0 value.

{F13586622, size=full}

Preferably few hundreds px in my opinion.

I'll also add that spacing value for gradient color's Repeat and Clamp modes should have much higher number. They don't work with the default 0 value. {[F13586622](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13586622/SculptPaintGradient.png), size=full} Preferably few hundreds px in my opinion.

Julien Kaspar added this to the Sculpt, Paint & Texture project 2023-02-08 10:48:53 +01:00

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Sculpt Paint tool defaults #97616

Paint Brush

Smear Brush

Color Filter