OxyBrush 4.0.0-beta.5

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OxyBrush 4.0.0-beta.5 adds a Deform window with 25 whole-piece deformers, two new masking commands, Mask border and Mask group borders, and a new, easier-to-read interface font. It's still a beta: please report issues (or use Help > Report a bug… in the app), or talk about it on Discord.

Downloads

Platform	File
macOS 11+, Apple Silicon and Intel (universal)	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.5-macos-universal.dmg
Windows 10/11 x64, installer	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.5-windows-x86_64-setup.exe
Windows, portable (includes oxybrush-cli.exe)	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.5-windows-x86_64-portable.zip
Linux, Flatpak	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.5-linux-x86_64.flatpak → flatpak install --user OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.5-linux-x86_64.flatpak
Linux, portable (includes oxybrush-cli)	OxyBrush-4.0.0-beta.5-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Verify downloads with SHA256SUMS.txt.

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

• Deform window (Mesh > Deform…). It changes the whole piece at once, or only its unmasked part:

  • Shape: move, rotate, scale, bend, S-bend, skew, S-skew, flatten (three kinds), twist, taper, squeeze, perspective and sag.
  • Surface: noise, inflate, inflate keep size and spherize.
  • Smoothing: smooth, polish (plain, or keeping detail, group edges or sharp edges) and relax.

  Each deformer is a bar with large X / Y / Z buttons for its axes. Drag the bar left or right to see the result live, and let go to apply it as one undo step; the bar springs back so you can drag again, and Escape cancels. Repeat on this piece and Repeat on other pieces apply the last one again, and Fit to standard size centres a piece and scales it to a standard size.

• Mask border and Mask group borders (Mask menu, #170): mask the edge of the visible surface (an open mesh's border, or the edge of what's left after hiding part of it), or the lines where face groups meet. Use Mask > Grow to widen them.

Changed

• New interface font: Inter. It replaces the toolkit's thin default font and is sturdier and easier to read on dark panels. Text in the dark themes is also a little softer, and headings and highlighted text are no longer pure white.
• Larger Mirror X / Y / Z buttons in the toolbar and the Symmetry section, easier to hit with a mouse or a pen.

See the changelog for details.

Project files

Projects from earlier betas open unchanged; this release doesn't change the project format.

Known limitations

• Deform window:
  • Only Twist has been tried in the running app; the other deformers are covered by automated tests. Please tell us if one behaves oddly.
  • The X / Y / Z choices reset when you restart.
  • Strong smoothing previews slowly on very dense meshes (about a tenth of a second per update at a million triangles).
• The new font has only been checked on Linux. Tell us how it looks on Windows and macOS.
• Pen gestures (from beta.3), and the retopology pins and macOS icon fix (from beta.2), still haven't been confirmed on real tablets or Macs.
• 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.
• Dynamic detail is smooth up to a few hundred thousand triangles and lags behind the brush around a million.
• 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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