Floating E-panel (brush operations) ?

[fattkid]

Hey folks,

 

New to 3D coat - curious if I can have the brush tab/flyout torn off and just floating/positioned in my viewport.

 

I'm constantly selecting brushes, and turning backface masking on and off - would be cool to just have that whole tab visible at all times and placed where I want.

 

Is it possible?

 

Thanks.

 

-Trevor

[Carlosan]

Hi

T key is used to show on/off

 

It helps ?

[fattkid]

oops - I think I misidentified the feature - on the left hand side, at the top of the tools palette, is the "Stroke Mode" flyout menu. That's the one I was referring to. Not the brushes. Although I didn't the hotkey for brushes, so thanks for that

 

So yeah, if I could have the "Stroke Mode" menu detached and floating, that would be cool.....

[Carlosan]

E key is used to show on/off

[fattkid]

ok thanks - that's a step in the right direction.

 

But can the menu float......?

 

And now that I think about it, is it possible to create custom menus/layouts?

[Carlosan]

Tabbed_Popup_Windows

 

All the menu operations are performed using the windows commands

 

Quick panel -as example- can be float

 

Recall Tools pressing spacebar

 

You can customize Page Layout by Room

 

Or Customize the overall workspace

 

all windows are dockable

 

Hope this help

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[Gary Dave]

What fattkid is asking, is whether or not the E-panel (brush operations) can be a pop-up window that remains on screen at all times. Which would be pretty handy actually, I can't count the number of times I've pressed E to bring up the e-panel and then accidentally moved my mouse off of it - thus automatically closing the pop-up.

 

To my knowledge, this is not a dockable window.

[Carlosan]

Sorry but E-panel (brush operations) cant be a pop-up window that remains on screen at all times.

 

but could be a nice tweak

 

let me ask dev team if its possible

[fattkid]

Yeah, just like Gary Dave said - 

 

Even though the hotkey is helpful, a floater would be better/helpful. Better because when you select something in the window, it closes - but if you want to access a particular brush, and turn on or off back face masking, you have to open the window twice - which is inefficient and tedious.

 

Or at least make it so the window stays open until your brush moves off of it, so you can make multiple selections/choices etc. at once, instead of constantly reopening the window.

 

Thanks Carlosan.

[Carlosan]

The workflow for that is to make custom Brush presets

 

and recall it with space bar menu or shortkeys

 

3DC preferences let you to select 2 options:

- to use a general brush operation for every tool

- to remember brush operation for every tool