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Blender 4.5 LTS: Sculpt, Paint, Texture

General

  • Mask by Color operator is added to the Mask menu and works with the redo panel (5b04b4ac18).
  • Property changes while in Weight Paint and Vertex Paint modes now create undo steps when appropriate (96869d03d4, e1d3538980).
  • The newly added "Manifold" boolean solver is available in Sculpt Mode. This can give much better performance and reliability for the trim tools than the existing solvers, though it requires a manifold sculpt mesh (0e0d1d4cba).
Three trim tool cuts being performed. The first is done in Exact mode, the second is done in Float mode, finally the last is done in Manifold mode.
  • The Asset Activate operator used when selecting brushes supports a toggle mode, and has been enabled by default for the Mask brush in Sculpt Mode (9e1e9b0859).

Brushes

  • Brush assets support duplication into the current .blend file (4ecde8dc53).
  • It is now possible to take screenshots for brush assets. For more info see the User Interface section
  • Painting in Sculpt, Vertex Paint, and Texture Paint supports randomization of hue, saturation, and value during the entire stroke or on a per-stroke basis (96e549c092).
Two paint brush strokes on a mesh. The first uses position jitter, the second adds color randomization.

Pen Tablet Tilt Support

In Sculpt Mode, a number of brushes have the Tilt Factor property exposed. This allows brushes to be modified based on the angle of the pen when using a drawing tablet (1232d64681).

When using a brush with this property, the inactive cursor display changes to provide a visual approximation of the tilted stroke.

The following brush types support this new parameter:

  • Draw
  • Draw Sharp
  • Plane
  • Clay Strips

Performance

  • Sculpt brush performance has been improved when working on a base mesh or with the Multiresolution Modifier active on high vertex count meshes. (8c2888d578, af31eeb900).
  • Node tools performance for simpler changes (when only positions, masks, or face sets are changed) has been improved significantly (0b891a68b1).
  • The "Clay Strips" brush type received various optimizations to become 1.22x faster (e2b9839aea).