Voxel eraser

[Haamu]

Quite simply a tool that removes everything behind the brush in screen space. Like removing infinitely long cylindrical blocks from the model. You can do this with lasso tools while sphere brush is active, but it's not nearly as fluent as eraser brush would be.

Another addition might be a move tool with similar cylindrical effect area.

These would make my work so much easier.

[philnolan3d]

How about the Hide tool, then Delete Hidden?

http://screencast.com/t/NWEwMTExNTk

[Haamu]

That works slightly better than sphere tool since you can undo it locally, but it still has the problem that the brush center has to touch the part you want to remove. That means you must gobble it en masse instead of gently skimming the edge.

[philnolan3d]

What about using some of the other tools in the E Panel, like B-Splines? Like this:

BTW it's not just the Sphere tool, about half of the tools will cut all the way through.

[Haamu]

Yeh, I've experimented a bit with just about everything. So far the lasso approach seems smoothest, although splines have some additional use since they are persistent. I just noticed that placing some geometry right behind the object makes the move tool work closer to the way I want (since it catches the cursor), but it's kind of a hassle to manage extra surfaces. Still it's gonna help enormously in some cases where that kind of control is needed. Interestingly, the same trick works in ZBrush as well.

I'd still much prefer infinite cylindrical eraser and move brush .