OxyBrush 4.0.0-beta.3

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OxyBrush 4.0.0-beta.3 brings one Theme window for everything about how OxyBrush looks, a slider thickness option, and pen gestures: with a pen you can now scroll panels by dragging them, and hold the pen still to open menus. It's still a beta: please report issues (or use Help > Report a bug… in the app).

Downloads

Platform	File
macOS 11+, Apple Silicon and Intel (universal)	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.3-macos-universal.dmg
Windows 10/11 x64, installer	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.3-windows-x86_64-setup.exe
Windows, portable (includes oxybrush-cli.exe)	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.3-windows-x86_64-portable.zip
Linux, Flatpak	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.3-linux-x86_64.flatpak → flatpak install --user OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.3-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Linux, portable (includes oxybrush-cli)	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.3-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

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First launch:

• macOS: open the .dmg, drag OxyBrush to Applications, and open it from there. If macOS shows an untrusted developer warning, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.
• Windows: SmartScreen warns about an unknown publisher: click More info, then Run anyway.

New

• One Theme window. View > Theme… (also in the command palette and in Preferences > Interface) has three tabs:

  • Themes: the nine themes, each drawn in its own colors, plus three ready-made looks (Classic, Workstation, Midnight).
  • Colors: the accent color and the viewport background.
  • Size & shape: interface scale, corner style and slider thickness.

  Reset everything goes back to the default look. This replaces the long Preferences > Appearance tab and View's Background menu; Preferences > Appearance is now Preferences > Interface.

• Slider thickness. Choose Thin, Normal or Thick slider bars under Theme > Size & shape. Only the bars change, not the rest of the interface. Thick bars are easier to see and to hit with a pen.

• Pen gestures. Several testers couldn't scroll panels with a pen. Now, once OxyBrush has seen pen pressure:

  • Drag to scroll: dragging over the brush list, the right panel or a window scrolls it. Sliders and other controls still take the drag as before.
  • Press and hold: holding the pen still for about a second works as a right-click. It opens menus and shows a control's tooltip.
  • Side buttons: holding a side button and dragging over a panel scrolls it too.
  • Pen in panels in Preferences > Pen & tablet switches this between pen only (the default), always (also for a mouse) and off.

• Pen side buttons navigation preset. In Preferences > Keymap, this preset orbits with the side button that acts as a right-click (Shift pans, Ctrl zooms) and pans with the one that acts as a middle-click.

See the changelog for details.

Project files

Projects open unchanged; this release doesn't change the project format. Settings files from earlier versions load unchanged too. Older versions ignore the two new settings (slider thickness and pen in panels).

Known limitations

• Pen gestures haven't been tried on a real tablet yet. They were tested with simulated pen input only. Please tell us how they behave on your tablet and operating system, and whether the 1-second hold feels right. If a gesture gets in the way, set Pen in panels to Off.
• Looks no longer change your shortcuts, navigation or material; set those in the Keymap and the material picker.
• Alphas carry over between projects in one session: alphas from a project you closed stay in the list and are saved with the next project too.
• Import scaling goes by size alone, so an import that really is meant to be 10× the scene gets scaled too: press Undo once to keep its original size.
• The box and lasso hide/show tools don't follow symmetry yet (masking does).
• Dynamic detail is smooth up to a few hundred thousand triangles and lags behind the brush around a million.
• The Blender bridge add-on still hasn't been run inside Blender.
• macOS is not notarized; pen pressure and touch gestures are untested on many tablets.

OxyBrush is an independent project, not affiliated with any commercial sculpting software vendor.

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This discussion was created from the release OxyBrush 4.0.0-beta.3.