reorganizing brushes

[do lo]

i suggest you put all the  alphas and materials in a pop up like  you can hide the brushes and use the spacebar to pop up a brush window.

because scrolling up and down is a huge pain every time i want to find a brush thats at the bottom or top. and making a hotkey for every brush would be a pain to remember.

this would  clean up the screen and provide more usable screen space. i

Edited April 26, 2016 by do lo

[Gary Dave]

You can organise your UI however you like, whatever window sizes you prefer, docked or not docked. Alphas and stencils can be split into categories so you don't end up with one single page for everything. You can also adjust the size of these icons by hitting the little down arrow with the line above it situated in the top right of whatever tab you're in.

 

You can also define presets of certain brush options/alpha combos that you find yourself frequently using, these are also sorted by category (ie, surface tools) and key'able.

 

Please stop suggesting every little thing you think of.

[Carlosan]

you mean favorites ?

 

im using Krita as example

[AbnRanger]

i suggest you put all the  alphas and materials in a pop up like  you can hide the brushes and use the spacebar to pop up a brush window.

because scrolling up and down is a huge pain every time i want to find a brush thats at the bottom or top. and making a hotkey for every brush would be a pain to remember.

this would  clean up the screen and provide more usable screen space. i

As Gary mentioned, you can already place the pallet where you like and choose different thumbnail sizes. If you want the brush alpha pallet to be a pop-up, just undock it and invoke it with a hotkey. Wherever your cursor is when you hit the hotkey is where it will come up. Move your cursor outside the pallet and it disappears. Works just like the Symmetry or e-Panel popup works.

 

You can also set up your own Presets, as Gary mentioned, with your most frequently used brush alphas and name them accordingly. Then, if you want, you can use the Preset Panel the same way I just described. Undock it and invoke it with a hotkey. Whatever room you are in, only the presets for that room will be listed first.

 

[do lo]

You can organise your UI however you like, whatever window sizes you prefer, docked or not docked. Alphas and stencils can be split into categories so you don't end up with one single page for everything. You can also adjust the size of these icons by hitting the little down arrow with the line above it situated in the top right of whatever tab you're in.

 

You can also define presets of certain brush options/alpha combos that you find yourself frequently using, these are also sorted by category (ie, surface tools) and key'able.

 

Please stop suggesting every little thing you think of.

i dont want to suggest every little thing i can think of but when i think it would make difference in my work flo and i think it would be a big help.. then i suggest it... that said... its all the little things that make a program great. which is better than being stagnant just waiting around for others to suggest it, but never do, cuz some ppl think its to much trouble to read all the suggestions from all the 3d coat fans... stop complaining and either dont read and take a vacation ot read and input some helpful reason why or why not u think  an idea is worth it. if you want only great ideas then you should/could come up with all the only great ideas.. then we can all rest and bask in your greatness... or whoever is the great genius with all the greatest ideas becuz no one else but you can judge that. sorry if our ideas dont match up to you idea a a good idea but i dont see you coming up with anything great... maybe your time would be better somewhere else than listening to us measly lil minded users. im a user that would like to see this software get better and even be the best... i dont believe it will get that way with ppl like you complaining that users are giving to many unhelpful suggestions.. they cant all be perfect..  edison tried many no so good ideas before he got his inventions... keep that in mind ... its easy for some to critisize other who are trying to make their modeling easier/faster/better., becuz that makes them feel superior... well pfffft thats crap...

As Gary mentioned, you can already place the pallet where you like and choose different thumbnail sizes. If you want the brush alpha pallet to be a pop-up, just undock it and invoke it with a hotkey. Wherever your cursor is when you hit the hotkey is where it will come up. Move your cursor outside the pallet and it disappears. Works just like the Symmetry or e-Panel popup works.

 

You can also set up your own Presets, as Gary mentioned, with your most frequently used brush alphas and name them accordingly. Then, if you want, you can use the Preset Panel the same way I just described. Undock it and invoke it with a hotkey. Whatever room you are in, only the presets for that room will be listed first.

 

ok thanks. that helps...

[Gary Dave]

do lo, the point I'm making is that if you have a question, you should hop over to a different forum section and ask it, rather than assuming the things you don't know are things that don't exist. That way, you can save actual feature requests for when you know 100% that the thing you're asking for doesn't exist.

 

You keep coming here and demanding all of these things, your wording should change from:

 

"I suggest you put all the alphas and materials in a pop-up...[etc]"

to:

"Hey, is it possible to put all the alphas and materials in a pop-up?...[etc]"

 

That's all I'm trying to say. It's okay to have questions, but it's egotistical to assume that just because you don't know how to do something then it must not exist and the developers need to put it in pronto.

 

Ask first, request later.

[do lo]

wellit was a suggestion !! a suggestion i think would be helpfull  no response is neccessary! i just hope suggestions are looked at seriously by higher ups with intentions on improving the software.

[AbnRanger]

wellit was a suggestion !! a suggestion i think would be helpfull  no response is neccessary! i just hope suggestions are looked at seriously by higher ups with intentions on improving the software.

Gary's right, though. Ask before you suggest, when you don't know. When you are new to app, you ask questions before you make demands/requests. I'm a total noob to Blender, but not to 3D, yet I will have to apply the same principle. I will look might silly if I head over to the Blender forums and start "Blender needs this....Blender needs that...Blender developers are really slacking cause this should already be in an app like this" threads. Cause I know there is a good chance there is already such a feature...either I haven't yet discovered it or it's available in an addon/plugin.

 

I do know that the 3D Coat applink that is built into Blender appears broken because I have confirmed it with a few other Blender users. Since I checked with other users first, I can confidently head over to the Blender forums and request it be updated/fixed.

[PolyHertz]

About the Ops feature request: Brush alphas are currently sorted alphabetically iirc (they can't be moved around manually or set to use any other type of sorting), and while as you can put them in different folders those folders will all be forced to have copies of the default brush alphas in them too. It could certainly use improvement.

[do lo]

About the Ops feature request: Brush alphas are currently sorted alphabetically iirc (they can't be moved around manually or set to use any other type of sorting), and while as you can put them in different folders those folders will all be forced to have copies of the default brush alphas in them too. It could certainly use improvement.

agree!

[ajz3d]

About the Ops feature request: Brush alphas are currently sorted alphabetically iirc (they can't be moved around manually or set to use any other type of sorting), and while as you can put them in different folders those folders will all be forced to have copies of the default brush alphas in them too. It could certainly use improvement.

I agree with you too.

Generally speaking there's much inconsistency in 3D-Coat. We can manually reorder VoxTree, Retopo Objects, Paint Layers, but we can't reorder (or sort) Paint Objects or Paint Materials. We also can't reorder contents of windows that contain images, like Shaders, Splines, Models, Retopo Models. We can use ALT+RMB to zoom in and MMB to pan the Color Palette image, but we can't use those shortcuts when picking the colour from the very same image from inside the Smart Materials Editor (at least not with my current navigation settings). Et cetera, et cetera. There's a lot of room for improvement here.

I believe these would be simple code tweaks, but they would make 3D-Coat much polished in terms of UI and UX.

Edited April 29, 2016 by ajz3d

[do lo]

I agree with you too.

Generally speaking there's much inconsistency in 3D-Coat. We can manually reorder VoxTree, Retopo Objects, Paint Layers, but we can't reorder (or sort) Paint Objects or Paint Materials. We also can't reorder contents of windows that contain images, like Shaders, Splines, Models, Retopo Models. We can use ALT+RMB to zoom in and MMB to pan the Color Palette image, but we can't use those shortcuts when picking the colour from the very same image from inside the Smart Materials Editor (at least not with my current navigation settings). Et cetera, et cetera. There's a lot of room for improvement here.

I believe these would be simple code tweaks, but they would make 3D-Coat much polished in terms of UI and UX.

oh so true...