This may seem like a strange request as you might remember how I praised your new smooth brushes earlier in the thread, but I’ve actually come around to liking the default 3.1 way of smoothing for initial sculpting. Somehow it feels a bit more natural with the rougher results it produces. Slightly closer to a knife or spatula on clay, in a way.
But in the later sculpting stages I can’t do without the ‘new_smooth 4’, though.
However, for the initial sculpting I actually think that even more of a flattening effect when ‘shift’-smoothing would be of great use, especially since I, and I guess many others, start a sculpt by blocking in the desired planes.
So: Would it be possible for you to make a ‘new_smooth’ that flattens even more than the 3.1 default one?
If it’s not too much trouble, of course… 