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Core Extension - Brush Panels

This addon is optional and deactivated by default.

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Brush Panels

This addon is optional and deactivated by default.

This adds a Brushes Tab to most painting and drawing modes and objects. This includes an individual panel per brush operator listing all brush types dynamically, including all user created brushes. This also includes the ability to display custom icons and is responsive per the toolshelf standards.

Note: To activate/deactivate an addon, go to Edit – Preferences – Addons tab – and untick any activated addons.

If you’d like to keep your addons for future use, you can either save the preferences, or activate them on demand per workspace in the workspace settings in the property shelf.

Use

To use, go into a paint mode (Sculpt, Texture Paint, Vertex Paint, Weight Paint or Grease Pencil Draw Mode), select the Brush tab in the Tool Shelf to the left, and then select a brush. When you select a brush, the button will automatically select the brush operator and select the brush type stored in the brush library. You can link/append and create any new brush type for later use – you can also assign iconography on demand.

If you don’t see the toolshelf tabs, go to View and turn on Tool Shelf Tabs.

To add brushes, you can use the add button in the Property Shelf under the Tool tab or in the Header brush type dropdown, you can add new brushes or remove brushes.

Note: Keep in mind a removed brush is still stored in orphan data till you purge data or save and reload the file. If brush type contains a (fake) user, this brush will not be purged from the file.

To add icons to brushes, in the Brushes panel in the Tool tab of the Property Shelf, you can use the Custom Icon to load any image as a brush icon.

You can find the Brush tab and panels in the 3D View Editor or the Image Editor with the correct painting modes**.**

For more information, please refer to the relevant chapters on the painting modes per object type.

Brush Panels and Modes

Mesh Objects

These brush panels are included with all mesh object painting modes.

Sculpt Mode

The Sculpt mode activated from the top left of the 3D View or by hotkey.

Entry	What it does
Draw	All Draw brush types.
Draw Sharp	All Draw Sharp brush types.
Clay	All Clay brush types.
Clay Strips	All Clay Strips brush types.
Layer	All Layer brush types.
Inflate	All Inflate brush types.
Blob	All Blob brush types.
Crease	All Crease brush types.
Smoothing	All Smoothing brush types.
Flatten	All Flatten brush types.
Fill	All Fill brush types.
Scrape	All Scrape brush types.
Multiplane Scrape	All Multiplane Scrape brush types.
Pinch	All Pinch brush types.
Grab	All Grab brush types.
Elastic Deformation	All Elastic Deformation brush types.
Snake Hook	All Snake Hook brush types.
Thumb	All Thumb brush types.
Pose	All Pose brush types.
Nudge	All Nudge brush types.
Rotate	All Rotate brush types.
Topology	All Topology brush types.
Boundary	All Boundary brush types.
Cloth	All Cloth brush types.
Simplify	All Simplify brush types.
Mask	All Mask brush types.
Draw Face Sets	All Draw Face Sets brush types.
Displacement Erase	All Displacement Erasebrush types.
Displacement Smear	All Displacement Smear brush types.
Paint	All Paint brush types.

Vertex Paint

The Vertex Paint mode activated from the top left of the 3D View or by hotkey.

Entry	What it does
Draw	All Draw brush types.
Smear	All Smear brush types.
Average	All Average brush types.
Blur	All Blur brush types.

Weight Paint

The Weight Paint mode activated from the top left of the 3D View or by hotkey.

Entry	What it does
Draw	All Draw brush types.
Smear	All Smear brush types.
Average	All Average brush types.

Blur

All Blur brush types.

Texture Paint

The Texture Paint mode activated from the top left of the 3D View or by hotkey.

Draw

All Draw brush types.

Entry	What it does
Soften	All Soften brush types.
Smear	All Smear brush types.
Clone	All Clone brush types.
Fill	All Fill brush types.
Mask	All Mask brush types.

Grease Pencil

These brush panels are included with the Grease Pencil object Draw Mode.

Draw Mode

The draw mode activated from the top left of the 3D View or by hotkey.

Entry	What it does
Draw	All Draw brush types.
Erase	All Erase brush types.
Fill	All Fill brush types.
Tint	All Tint brush types.

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