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Blender 5.0: Sculpt, Paint, Texture

General

  • The Sculpting template has been updated with some overlays now enabled by default. (d4167bfcd7)
  • The Multiresolution modifier now has 'Conform Base' as an operation alongside 'Apply Base'. This moves the base mesh's vertices to their subdivided positions. (fee064e524, Manual)

A video showing the same deformed multiresolution mesh with 'Apply Base' being used compared to 'Conform Base'

Brushes

  • Brush size, strength and jitter properties now have a customizable curve to change how tablet pen pressure affects each property during a brush stroke. There are also options to set these curves to a number of different presets. (5f8311f596, a40d484b1a)

Python API / Compatibility Changes

See the Python API section for a full list of breaking API changes.

  • The unified brush settings (e.g. size, strength, color) are no longer shared across the entirety of a given scene, and are now mode specific. (4434a30d40)
  • Radial symmetry is now stored as a mesh property instead of a scene property, allowing for per-object radial symmetry settings. (d73b8dd4f3)
  • Brush and palette colors are stored in scene linear color space. The conversion of existing brushes may require manual fixing if they were used to store non-color data. For more information, see the Color Management section. (6aa11a304c)
  • Brush size values now represent the diameter of the brush, not the radius of the brush. (8188dbd246)

Sculpt

  • The Grab, Snake Hook, Elastic Deform, Pose, Boundary, Thumb, and Rotate brushes no longer show pressure sensitivity toggles. (0e2316c2bc)

Texture Paint

  • The bundled essentials brushes have been updated to be grouped into catalogs. Additionally, the Paint Pixel Art and Erase Pixel Art brushes have been added. (06e391b5e4)

Undo

  • Undo data for deformations is now compressed to be at least 2 times smaller overall. This can result in at least a 10% reduction in overall memory usage or can result in the ability to store more undo steps in memory. (8536fd1223)
  • Operators in Sculpt mode that affect the base topology (e.g. Trim tools, Remesh) now report their memory usage to the general undo system. (919eb4bfe7)

Weight Paint

  • Weight values of less than 0.0001 are rounded to 0 when painting. (56c08fd5c4)
  • Zero Weights overlay setting defaults to Active instead of None. (eea22743c1)