Everything you need to know about The Brush Shelf in Blender 4.3 - Customise your sculpting setup!

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

You can see the brushes in the asset library! Check the asset type filter at the top right, brushes are a type, and usually off. And once you've turned them on, you can add your own catalogues like one just for VDMs, as per usual!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@EmilySmirleGURPS Oh brilliant. Glad I missed that as it seemed silly without it. I'll add this in the description and pin your comment. Thanks so much!

[@xmaruffles7535]

I can't find this option

[@xmaruffles7535]

I found now, thank you.

[@sparrowelf]

Thank you! I'm usually slow to update because I'm a creature of habit, but as I've just started sculpting for 3D printing, I LOVE this new feature and will be updating immediately.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@sparrowelf Yeah I'm hugely excited about this!

[@darrennew8211]

I noticed that a huge number of changes in 2.80 made using a tablet easier (e.g., all the icons in the top right of the view). I'm not surprised that sculpting, of all things, is getting easier to use on a tablet. This is a great and detailed explanation. Thanks!

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@darrennew8211 Cheers man. And good points on the changes that seem to be happening 👍🏻

[@TheRodentMastermind]

600 Brushes all sorted and into Assets, ouch that was painful, but so nice now I have them all organised rather than appending them when I needed them for a project

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@TheRodentMastermind Yeah I imagine doing it once, whilst annoying, is going to be great to have them all sorted and forever there to use without having bring them in to each project.

[@torq21]

This is an incredibly exciting and helpful video. I do quite a bit of sculpting in Blender and the brushes system has been one of those pain points that I was hoping they'd work on.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@torq21 Totally agree. This is an excellent addition to Blender as a sculpting system.

[@hre23123]

Beautiful

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@hre23123 Thanks 😁

[@thatblastedsamophlange]

As I mostly do sculpting in blender, I'm both looking forward to and dreading this update - looking forward because of the new options, dreading because it's a change and that is always tough on me.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@thatblastedsamophlange Totally understand that, no one liked change. What I think I like about this is many of the processes are the same (like setting up custom brushes) but now I only have to do it once! 😁

[@thatblastedsamophlange]

@@ArtisansofVaul It's relearning the muscle memory of where I have everything set up - it takes me extra effort doing that. I had a quick question;, when I export STL files, the exported file always puts the name of the blender file at the beginning - how would I turn that off? So it is just the object name as the export?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@thatblastedsamophlange Totally agree on the muscle memory being a pain to relearn. Are you exporting a single object or as a batch?

[@thatblastedsamophlange]

@@ArtisansofVaul Single object, using the 3d print toolbox export.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@thatblastedsamophlange I've never bothered doing it from there. Use the export option under file, it has some great options. I'm not going to check the options in the 3D print toolbox to see what it has 😅

[@devriv8983]

Thank you. This was very helpful

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@devriv8983 Awesome 😁 Glad to be of help

[@samdavepollard]

quality content; thank you for sharing your knowledge I still like sticking my 6 fav brushes on my Quick Favs menu and/or setting up single key shortcuts for the brushes i use the most but these new features look pretty cool; that said, not sure I like having the shelf taking up a bunch of screenspace on a laptop

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@samdavepollard Totally understand the space. I think with Quick favourites and the W key tip I show I think that's an understandable choice for sure.

[@samdavepollard]

@@ArtisansofVaul yes, that W key tip is super useful; will get that set up once i've installed 4.3

[@ET-The-E-Man]

Excellent explanation! Thank you! 👏🏼👏🏼

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@ET-The-E-Man Thanks so much 😁

[@9b8ll]

This is probably the best update since blender 3.5. The worst part is that some brushes that I bought before, from previous blender versions might not work. That could be a pain in the butt.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@9b8ll That would be really annoying if it didn't work with the brought brushes. I hope they are updated to work with 4.3

[@9b8ll]

​@ArtisansofVaul a little late, but most of them work in blender 4.3. Now easier to add them manually instead of appending every single brush. I just wish you could put the assets to the side for more room.

[@daverainville2349]

I've enjoyed your videos on creating custom vdm brushes. I've been able to create some but haven't been able to save them as assets, and get an error "no asset found at path" when I try. Also my brush baker saves to a temp directory and I'm unable to find a way to change that. What do I need to do?

[@AdamJensenReal]

Thanks for the video. Great changes with Sculpting brushes I have waiting a lot to see something like Zbrush they need to improve it more but its now is way way better with the new brushes menu. Guys did you notice all the keyboard shortcuts not work at "Layout" the default layout. Add objects right click, almost every key is not working I think only Shift S is working. Do you have this bug? or maybe a solution? I will still use 4.2 until devs fix this.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@AdamJensenReal That's a big problem if it's having that impact regularly. Have you reported it?

[@AdamJensenReal]

@@ArtisansofVaul I found already Issue reported - few ppl have it (not fixed). But i fixed it :) somehow the keyboard shortcuts was changed. I restored them and now its all working. Im not sure is it some addon or what but. If someone have it go to settings > Keymap > scroll to 3d View and if you have button "restore" - click it. I will go now to report the fix there.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@AdamJensenReal well done! And thanks so much for letting us know.

[@rookmorrigan8379]

So with this new change, how to I add vdm brushes from a .blender file? Appending them doesn't seem to work and I'm not sure how to extract them.

[@TamberCave]

Having the same problem!

[@TheRodentMastermind]

@@TamberCave@rookmorrigan8379 Append from your old blender file, you won't be able to use them until you Mark them as Assets in the data section (I think that is what it's called, the alternative option on the Layer tab where it shows all the data in your blender file)... Once you have done that you can just create folders and drag the brushes into them in the Asset Panel. I've just done over 600.

[@kodesh8751]

Is there a way to move new sculpt icons to the left or right side of the panels? i kinda don't mind it down where its at but it just gets in my way. and by the way the 3 little lines next to ALL, General Paint, on the sculpt Menu bar is not visible in the white theme, incase any one was looking for the Simulation brushes. Im hidding them for now and using Shift + SpaceBar, but yet that menu can not be adjusted in size as well.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@kodesh8751 That's annoying about the white theme. I'm not sure if there is a setting to change where it's located but I haven't found one yet. It would be good to be able to have it somewhere else for sure!

[@OmniTAF]

Can you make a video about how to set up asset library to be used on all files. I cant figure it out

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@OmniTAF I have a video on that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4PNYqBnr6egqNU I have a few follow up ones too

[@evilotis01]

hey are you having trouble with the gesture tools? the ones that like Box/Line/Lasso etc? i can't get them to do anything-they all just draw a highlight box and nothing else

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@evilotis01 Oh... interesting. I only really tried out the sculpt tools as that's what had got me excited 😅 Maybe worth waiting for 4.3 to be fully released know the 19th and see if the issue is still there.

[@evilotis01]

@@ArtisansofVaul yeah, i thought the same, but still having the same problem in the released version. do they work for you??

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@evilotis01 Just checking you mean the lasso, box select and tweak tools? They are working fine for me.

[@evilotis01]

@@ArtisansofVaul specifically box trim, lasso trim and line trim. i can only get them to draw a selection box, which does nothing :-/

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@@evilotis01 Hmm... Maybe some sort of interaction with an addon? I haven't found that happening to be able to help I'm afraid

[@My2Cents1]

I want my old toolbox back, neatly on the left hand side. That monstrosity at the bottom takes up WAY too much room... and the dude in the video wants even larger icons... 🤯 Well at least you showed me where I go to make them as small as possible so, thank you, 😂

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@My2Cents1 it's a demo and of course it's always going to depend on things like your screen size. I would like the option to change the location of the bar though.

[@My2Cents1]

Yeaah I don’t like this. It’s like I have to relearn where everything is again. They should have given the option to keep the old toolbox as it’s only easthetics. I searched for a way but could find any.

[@AdrianChenSixx]

i think there will be addons that make this process easier

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@AdrianChenSixx Possibly. I don't think it's particularly hard though. It should be very easy to bring in purchased brushes and textures now though, which is great.

[@TheRodentMastermind]

It's not to bad, append from your old blender file, Mark as Assets, Make folders in the User section of the Asset panel, switch to All and drag them into folders.

[@seasoned-pastronaut]

Idk why but none of the brushes seem to have any shortcuts anymore? Is this just me or was this an intentional change?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@seasoned-pastronaut Oh I hope they haven't done away with the shortcuts. Thats going to annoy a lot of people if they have.

[@ArtisansofVaul]

I just tried and the shortcuts seem to be working for me...

[@seasoned-pastronaut]

@@ArtisansofVaul It still doesn't work for me on some brushes. I tried the draw, layer and clay brush and they don't work but some of the others do despite not listing and shortcuts bound to them... EDIT: and none of my shortcuts from 4.2 copied over

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@seasoned-pastronaut That's annoying the shortcuts didn't copy over.

[@_casg]

Damn I’m still the only one using blender 4.1

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@_casg Haha. I doubt it as that's a really stable Blender version. But I think this will push a lot of people over the edge to this update.

[@_casg]

@ idk I’ve been doing okay for a while. All these updates really don’t change my workflow on creating.

[@SicTyrannis559]

Are you telling me that now I have to go by one by one to import over 200 brushes?

[@ArtisansofVaul]

@SicTyrannis559 No I'm not telling you that. I'm just demonstrating how to set up a brush for someone that's new to it .

[@TheRodentMastermind]

Nope.. you don't need to... Append from your old blender file, you won't be able to use them until you Mark them as Assets in the data section (I think that is what it's called, the alternative option on the Layer tab where it shows all the data in your blender file... Once you have done that you can just create folders and drag them in the Asset Panel. I've just done over 600.