Tip: Importing Blender Sculpting Brush sets with an Add-on

by Jonathan Williamson

In this quick Blender 2.5 tutorial we show you how to use the Import Brushset add-on that is bundled with Blender 2.58 to quickly grab an entire folder of brushes. These brushes can then easily be used for sculpting fine details.

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42 Responses to “Tip: Importing Blender Sculpting Brush sets with an Add-on”
  1. Saku
    Posts: 3

    Great tip, thanks!

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 5:34 pm
  2. Aaron Symons
    Posts: 59

    Thanks for that!

    Will be very useful for when I finally get into sculpting.

    P.S. I didn’t know you’re getting married in August! I saw that you mentioned it on your Facebook page (browsed it for the first time). Congratulations! :D Are you even old enough to get married? haha :P

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 5:38 pm
  3. Thomas Sørensen
    Posts: 12

    Just tried it and the addon is simply not there!nNot sure if it’s because I’m using the linux build, or something but this addon is not included in 2.58 to me :SnnIs there anywhere else I can get this addon?

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 6:20 pm
    • Rod Beasley
      Posts: 8

      Same here. I am using 2.58a at the moment 64bit as per my pc spec. I notice a lot of what Jonathan can use I simply can’t. In this case the add on just isn’t there. I wonder if installing a newer version requires un-installing the old version first? I use a windows 7 machine. Oh I yearn for XP, was so much easier.

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       Jul 12, 2011 at 11:43 pm
    • Hans Erickson
      Posts: 14

      I had no problem importing the brushes or finding the addon with blender 2.58 installed. Worked great on both my linux Ubuntu 11.04 or my Win 7 64bit install. You might want to install a fresh build from graphicall.

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       Jul 29, 2011 at 4:13 pm
  4. Jan Larmann
    Posts: 60

    do you know any good links with many textures?

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 6:57 pm
    • Erik Castillo
      Posts: 7

      Well Zbrush has a download section with great sculpt material man!

      I hope you like it

      http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/downloadcenter/alpha/

      Greetings

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       Jul 11, 2011 at 7:19 pm
      • Ethan Jurman
        Posts: 8

        will these work? they are all psd (except for a few).

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         Jul 12, 2011 at 1:17 am
      • Matthew Muldoon
        Posts: 19

        Great link man, just what I was looking for.
        Thanks

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         Jul 12, 2011 at 9:18 am
      • Jan Larmann
        Posts: 60

        thx a lot.

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         Jul 12, 2011 at 9:30 am
      • Marc
        Posts: 3

        Hi, do you know how they can be used with Blender sculpt brushes? thanks

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         Jul 14, 2011 at 6:19 pm
  5. Masoud zamani
    Posts: 7

    very Appliednthank you

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 7:08 pm
  6. haqzaf
    Posts: 54

    Hi,
    Not found this addon.
    Not there in 2.58,64 bit,win7, downloaded from Blender.org
    Not there in 2.58.1,64 bit,win7 downloaded from GeaphicsAll.org

    It is found in Blender 2.57.1,r36543,win ver.
    Still unable to see the visual icons in the texture expandable view.
    All texture icon selection windows in a group remain dark.It I click any of selection window the respective brush is selected with out knowing what shape of this brush.

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 8:46 pm
  7. haqzaf
    Posts: 54

    Hi,
    Blender 2.57.1,r36543
    As, I mention,I can’t see the texture brush icons after clicking expanding the texture window.Problem is solved.My render setting was on Luxrender.
    After switching to Default Render.All the texture brush icons appear for selection.

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 9:26 pm
  8. Guillaume Côté
    Posts: 4

    I just love you tutorial. I think your speaking is perfect and it is fun to follow you. Thanks again and keep up the good work.^^

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 9:35 pm
  9. 3dcurser
    Posts: 14

    Nice tut Jonathan. On my mac, 2.58 came with it all ready to go under the “Load brushes directory” drop down tab under “Appearance” right at the bottom. My question to any who knows is how do you get the brushes to stay each time you start up blender? User preferences save as default?

    Cheers

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     Jul 11, 2011 at 11:42 pm
    • 3dcurser
      Posts: 14

      Actually I think all I actually did was replace my sculpting brushes with my alphas… because all I seem to have now is the default draw brush. Hmm. I’ll fugure it out, anyway, been having fun with those alphas and the draw brush. The pixologic alphas mentioned earlier work nicely for me.

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       Jul 12, 2011 at 2:18 am
  10. M-Jeeli
    Posts: 4

    Great tip Jonathan, and the shortest one ever too!

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     Jul 12, 2011 at 1:33 am
  11. SeriousM
    Posts: 9

    Thank you a lot!

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     Jul 12, 2011 at 3:46 am
  12. SeriousM
    Posts: 9

    hmm.. i’ve downloaded the alphas from http://www.pixologic.com/zbrush/downloadcenter/alpha/ but i can’t open the pds with blender.

    but i can convert the images with IrfanView to png and use them then.

    btw: the plugin cannot be found in the current blender release / plugin page. is it still supported?

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     Jul 12, 2011 at 4:25 am
  13. Ertyui
    Posts: 5

    I can open the .psd’s from pixelogic just fine in blender, but the plugin doesn’t seem available in my version of blender which is 2.58 on mac.

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     Jul 12, 2011 at 5:55 am
  14. Vickie Webb
    Posts: 20

    Great Tip Jonathan! I was wondering how you prepared your image files to act as brushes. Do you have any good tips on preparing images to be used as brushes?

    Thanks,

    Vickie Webb

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     Jul 12, 2011 at 11:41 am
  15. Douglas Beaton
    Posts: 8

    I found the file at https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-extensions/contrib/py/scripts/addons/

    Click the link for io_Import_BrushSet.py copy the text, paste it to notepad (or an equivalent), then save it as io_Import_BrushSet.py NOT as a .txt file. Then simply import it into your addons directory. The version works with 2.58.1.

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     Jul 12, 2011 at 1:03 pm
  16. Douglas Beaton
    Posts: 8

    Oops, sorry, save it as io_import_BrushSet.py, not io_Import_BrushSet.py (although it may not matter).

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     Jul 12, 2011 at 1:05 pm
    • 3dcurser
      Posts: 14

      Cheers Doug, that worked out fine. Gotta love this whole “add-on” scenario with Blender.

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       Jul 12, 2011 at 4:12 pm
  17. Diaa Hefzy
    Posts: 2

    Thanks for the tutorial…But I can’t paint although I chose the folder of textures and opened it without problem…What I’m doing wrong….Thanks in advance

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     Jul 15, 2011 at 3:21 am
    • Diaa Hefzy
      Posts: 2

      The feature wasn’t working because I clicked on Smooth button before start painting…It must be flat and increase its subdivision using multiresolution in modifier menu….This note for future searchers

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       Jul 16, 2011 at 6:58 am
  18. Cris Palomino
    Posts: 39

    Well, I found the python script, but when I tell it to install, nothing occurs and I do not find it in my list to enable. It wasn’t there (Mac-32, Blender 2.58a) as expected and went to Blender.org.

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     Jul 29, 2011 at 6:27 am
    • Matthew Torres
      Posts: 5

      I am having the same problem. Nothing happens when I try to install 2.5.9 mac 64bit

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       Sep 3, 2011 at 1:01 am
  19. Matthew Torres
    Posts: 5

    For those that its not working for, I found this page which has the file on it and this time it worked using it.

    http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25702

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     Sep 3, 2011 at 1:13 am
  20. Matthew Torres
    Posts: 5

    I take it back it did install the feature but will not install the folder with the brush set. No textures show up.

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     Sep 3, 2011 at 1:48 am
  21. Matthew Torres
    Posts: 5

    Note to those trying I read you could use PSD files however that is not the case with Mac 64, I converted them to jpeg and imported fine.

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     Sep 3, 2011 at 2:10 am
  22. paragon468
    Posts: 10

    Hm… I’m using Blender 2.63 and I can’t seem to locate this addon. I looked through pretty much all of them and it isn’t there.

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     May 22, 2012 at 10:26 am
  23. Chase Weimer
    Posts: 1

    The import brush set thing isn’t there… What happened??? I am using blender 2.63… any suggestions?

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     Jun 19, 2012 at 1:17 pm
  24. kolrok
    Posts: 14

    Ok, I just lost my Crease brush. I have no idea what happened to it, I was sculpting along, saved my file, reloaded it later and my crease brush was missing. I tried searching for it in my brushes, but it’s vanished…. Help?

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     Dec 2, 2012 at 10:51 pm
    • kolrok
      Posts: 14

      Problem solved. For some reason when I opened up my brush menu my crease brush was missing (and my mask brush) but I fixed it by going to the “Brush” menu down below and manually clicking on each of the ones that were missing. They were then restored to the brush menu.

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       Dec 2, 2012 at 11:15 pm
      • Jonathan Williamson
        Posts: 2975

        Another thing you can do is create new brush presets by clicking the “+” button and then configuring the brush as you wish. If you do this with a new scene and then save your users settings with CTRL+U then it’ll be saved for all scenes.

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         Dec 3, 2012 at 11:44 am
      • Alex Telford
        Posts: 454

        You can also append brushes from another file if you have lost a bunch of standard brushes, and you can remove brushes by removing the fake user from the outliner->Datablocks
        -Alex

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         Dec 3, 2012 at 4:04 pm

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