Hello,
I hope this is the correct place to report issues. I tried to find any type of bug report feedback, but was unable to. Anyway, here is the issue…
I’m not sure what the UI elements are referred to, but there is a large brush button (the active brush) and small brush buttons (either previously used brushes, or custom brush selection buttons).
When the user clicks on one of these smaller brush buttons, they can choose a different brush than one shown in the button. It brings up the brush selection window. When this is done, it changes that smaller button to the new brush selected. Pretty useful feature.
However, if the user chooses a smoothing or masking brush (such as by mistake), they will no longer be able to do this. Once the smaller button is associated with a smoothing or masking button, clicking on it will only show the typical warning “This will be your new masking brush, etc”. Even if the warning is suppressed, clicking on the button no longer does anything. The only way I’ve found to resolve this is to reinitialize Z-Brush, reset brush history, or delete the brush button and re-create it.
Personally, I think these warnings are a little silly. If the user wants to assign a masking brush to his primary button/pen, why not let them? And if they want to assign a flatten brush to Ctrl, or Z-Modeler to Shift, why stop it?
In any case, I don’t think the warnings need removed to fix this bug. There’s just some type of condition check that’s being skipped over because of the divergence in logic. Someone just needs to massage the code to allow these two things to interact peacefully.
Thanks!