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Brush Tool Categories
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Description

Currently sculpt tools use the internal 'tool' enum to categorize them.

This causes some seemingly unrelated brushes to be nested, eg: Flatten Contrast is nested under Smooth.

This proposal is to have a category string for each brush which determines which category it's grouped into.

  • Allows for control of how brushes are grouped.
  • This name won't be user visible (expect for advanced tool-settings, similar to the sculpt_tool). So people setting custom brush sets can control it.
  • Can be used for grease pencil where nearly all tools use the DRAW tool type (making grouping by tool impractical).
  • Empty category will list the brush top-level (avoids complications loading old files).
  • The factory startup file will write in our own predefined categories written into existing brushes.
  • We could optionally do-version existing files, writing categories into brushes when their names match a known list (since many users don't rename their brushes / create new brush sets ... etc).

Event Timeline

Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Resolved.Nov 4 2018, 1:00 AM

Closing this in favor of storing an active brush per internal 'tool' implementation.

See: rBac8d7873278c47e8e282b7f83888108e2720a451

Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) changed the task status from Resolved to Unknown Status.Nov 4 2018, 1:00 AM