[Bf-committers] Slash Brushes for blender sculpting proposal

[Sean Olson]

Nicholas Bishop is the sculpt maintainer, and Jason Wilkens built a lot of
the brushes and brush code if I recall correctly.  I agree that we need a
"detailing" default brush ala the famous "dam standard" brush and this is
pretty close, but I don't know how Nicholas and Jason would feel about
including a texture based brush off of default.  I would venture to say
that dam standard is the 2nd most used brush in sculpting workflows after
the clay tubes brush (and smooth of course).

I do recall Jason saying that he built the "tools" and it was up to the
artists to come up with good defaults so they may bite, but they may also
want to do something a bit more versatile and code based brush for
detailing.  (For those unfamiliar with dam standard, we are talking a brush
for etching grooves quickly into the surface.   This is very important for
playing with surface details of the model and quickly cutting forms into
larger structures.

The current default workflow is tedious at best for cutting detail into
models, and usually requires a combination of multiple brushes, (Cut groove
with standard or crease-> then pinch-> then smooth ends.  In short, I hope
either this solution or a code based one makes it into trunk, but I'd like
to emphasize that there does exist a gap here, perhaps not in
functionality, but in workflow)

-Sean


On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Paul Geraskin <paulgeraskin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you for answering. I would love to have them in the toolbox.I
> talked to Ton by IRC. He said that Nikolas Bishop is responsible for
> sculpting tools. I need to contact him at least.
> But i did not find him at IRC yet.
>
> On 30.03.2013 20:25, gonderici gonderici wrote:
> > I tend to think that having a slash brush is a good idea. So I
> > personally welcome it if it is embedded into the current brush system.
> > We can live without it, but it is a good addition.
> >
> > The slashing is useful when splitting
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > kursad
> >
> > On 03/30/2013 05:38 AM, Antony Riakiotakis wrote:
> >> While I do find these nice I'm not sure they warrant a default brush,
> same
> >> as cool materials and nodes are not included in the default blend. This
> >> again brings forth the matter of having repositories of
> >> materials/nodes/brushes/meshes and asset management. But as far as the
> >> blender executable/main download is concerned I'm personally not very
> >> positively inclined.
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