Weight painting falloff sphere/projected hotkey?

[Harris Clook]

I’m not necessarily after a hotkey to swap between the two, but man I wish there was some sort of icon, or a lightbulb that would turn on to let you know which mode you have it set to. Sure I can check, and I do, but I often found myself working on one side of a limb only to realise I didn’t have the right mode enabled. Is there something anyone else does to help remind them? aswell as making the conscious effort to check? Is there a hotkey to open the dropdown for falloff settings?

[Harris Clook]

Actually, perhaps I could leave the n-panel open with the brush settings visible – I’ll try that next time

[Martin Bergwerf]

There is also a Tool Settings in the Properties Editor (above the Render Properties), then you don’t need to have the N-Panel open…

[Dwayne Savage]

I’m not at home to test this, but have you tried right clicking on the option and seeing if it has the option to add to quick favorites? Then you can just press q to bring up quick favorites and change it there. I can check other options when I get home in about 5 hours. 

[Harris Clook]

Martin that sounds great I’ll take a look this evening! And there unfortunately isn’t Dwayne!

[Dwayne Savage]

It’s not what you want, but it might work for you. On the tool setting bar(The second line of the header) there is an offset dropdown button. You can right click on it and assign a hotkey. I used F5 since I know that F5-F8 are free. This brings the whole falloff section to the mouse cursor, but you can quickly see what it’s set too and change it if you want then just move the mouse cursor out of the box and get back to work. The only other option I can see is to create an addon/extension that will do it. 

[Martin Bergwerf]

Yeah, Dwayne suggestion of assigning a shortcut to the Falloff dropdown is probably the best you can get.

The problem with the Spherical/Projected Setting is, that it is per Brush. So you’d have to assign a shortcut for each Brush.

For an Addon, the Python would be, for the first Brush:  bpy.data.brushes[“SculptDraw”].falloff_shape

[Dwayne Savage]

I figured out how to create the buttons based on the brush on the selected brush in the n-panel. I just don’t know how to create the pop where the mouse is at. I can even assign a hotkey. One day I’m going to sit down and learn Python. Until then I’m limited on what I can do. 

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