Hey, I just wanted to say that I have discovered your channel over the weekend and you deserve a huge thank you and a virtual hug for everything you share with us. Your tutorials are so easy to follow and they are packed with knowledge. An absolute legend. Thank you.
Apparently you have some witch skills, just a week ago I was begging to find a way to add these brushes into Blender and here you are... A million thanks !
For those that have the issue where the Brushes disappear after closing and reopening Blender I had the same issue and this method worked for me: 1. Get to the point in the vid just before Grant clicks the Append button. 2. check the box marked "Fake User" THEN select Append. 3. Save this as your Start Up file. 4. Close and reopen Blender and they should all still be there.
Grant Abbitt you are a Elder God of Blender Community. I just love your work. God bless you buddy, so that you can upload more videos for Blender Community.
Made originally for Zbrush. Credit to the creator of those free brushes : Michael Vicente (Blizzard Entertainment). One of the very rare people that actually understood how to use the ultra powerful brushes settings in ZBrush to create new ones, when most other "brushes" packs are nothing more than alphas.
Yes that's true. It was a long time ago I created the video and neglected to put the original creator in the description. I believe there is a note in the brush pack itself but i have added it to the description now as well
@@grabbitt Thanks for him ;) Amazing brushes indeed. I haven't tested how close those are from the ZBrush original ones. But it's already great to see that someone attempted the "conversion". Thanks for sharing the info (b^-^)b
Thanks aloot for sharing your knowlege! You helped my one more time on my way :). And btw you even teachet my blender a cuple years ago. You are amazing!
AND - if you check the box marked FAKE USER in the APPEND MENU, the brushes will actually save and they'll be there when you reopen the file. And - BTW - this is yet another seriously good tute.
I see these being used all the time but just hadn't gotten around to installing. I was able to download them fine this morning and installed. Looking forward to sculpting with them.
thanks so much grant for showing us the zbrush brushes for blender. It'll truly help me more accuretly on following a zbursh suclpting course i'm following along with in blender. :)
I'd like to get the brush pack but the Site is loading for like a month, its also showing 504 Gateway timeout :( could you put up a mirror link please? (Location: Austria)
Sorry - ignore my previous question! Those were the ZBrush instructioins but I just realised you apped the brushes in your tutorial.. think everything is ok now!
Hey Grant, I appended the brushes and the texture brushes seems to be off and doesn't exactly same as your in the video. Can you please help and fix it? Thanks grant! :D
Oh yes ! Thank you Abitt sir I was stuck at brush append part thank you very much 😀. Really need that one and please can you do a video on game assets creation with all that baking and node based stuff pls pls it's a humble request. Thank you ,fan ❤️ from INDIA 🇮🇳
The only brush that I've wanted the most is not included in this pack, so sad. I thought the "Stitch" brush that you can see in the image folder from this Orb Pack, is included in the pack as well but sadly it is the only one that is missing. That would've been such a great addition and a lot of hassle saved for a lot of people when trying to model stitches. Nonetheless, thank you very, very much for sharing this with us, Grant!
@@grabbitt Thank you, I'll try that now! I have also noticed that every time I quit Blender, I have to append the brushes again, what am I doing wrong? Edit: I did save the blender file after appending the brushes, as a new start-up file but still no luck.
hi thanks for the tutorial, do we need to append brushes every time we open blender or is there a way we can load it in startup ( tried saving it as startup file which is not working for me)
are there any resources for texture brushes (texture mask textures) for use in texture painting? i haven't really been able to find this. i guess i just want to add a variety of brushes to give it a more Photoshoppy feel, and add variety to my texture painting. thanks again
hey Grant have you thought of making your own brush pack for detaling brushs by that I mean brushs that you created for specific reasons to fit your needs for sculpting details
i got them all in blender but when i try to sculpt with them there is no change to the defaut cube. Any fixes to this problem? Edit: found the problem. Forgot to remesh it
How come in 99% of videos no one mention the "applying Scale" Step? Your video and other video about texture painting are the only ones that mention that step. I'll be doing it from now on, thank you!
I'm just starting out with sculpting (completed 2 of your tuts so far), so this is a great resource. You know you now have to do a sculpting tutorial that makes heavy use of these... right?
Can anyone help? C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\config But I cannot find such directory on my computer. I have Blender 2.93 installed and If I go to Blender 2.93 file, there are 3 folders: Datafiles / Phyton and Scripts.... where should I copy these?
I'd like to know what type of Tablet and pen would be good for this. What are the best and those worth the $. If you don't mind me asking. I just downloaded this software a month ago and am looking at a tablet and pen. Mouse is,,,, ok. But I think doing the alternative is more natural.
Help! having some issues with the Remesh shortcut, I just realized when I set voxel size with shift R, then Remesh with Ctrl R, it doesn't work any more, basically whatever voxel size I set, Ctrl R remesh will just set voxel back to 0.1 and all the settings under Remesh are back to default. I don't remember it did that last time I used it.
hello Grant I seem to have a major issue with the download, i just switched from mac to windows (PC) and I cant seem to get the brushes to appear. (1) I can append the file but there arent any icons for the textures and (2) none of the brushes work even though there in the file. Do you know what could be causing this?
You are my favorite. But what I want to do is just make a few basic brushes for Texture Paint other than the default TexDraw brush. When you click on the draw tool it opens a big empty menu with just the one brush. It even has a search field so there has got to be a way to add user-defined default brushes without having to do the texture/stencil thing or appending a set of brushes every time you open a new file. I've looked all over and can find nothing. Any ideas?
Is there any way to save the brushes so they will be in blender even when i start a new scene? I tried to go to File -> Defaults > Save Startup File but for some reason that did not work. So is there any other options?
Grant, what do you do when you add alpha brushes but their texture picture icons all show up as the default brush icon? How do you make it so it shows the alpha icon so I know which texture I am selecting?
One problem I have is that the effects of the brush may show up on the other side of the mesh. Is this a matter of brush strength, mesh thickness, or something else?
Love these brushes. For your thumbnail pic for this video, did you decimate the model? What would be a good technique for reducing the verts on this block to make it game ready without baking a texture file for the details? I am trying to create a scene with similarly stylized objects, but I don't want to use textures. Just low poly carved objects. Any tips?
hey I have a question. I have a MacBook Pro 2020 and its a bit slow on blender. when I pick a new object it takes a few seconds (avg around 3-5 sec) to load and select the object the file barely has anything in it. just a few basic cubes I wanted to use to practice texturing on(I didn't texture anything yet, it was just plain old cubes). is this because MacBooks just aren't good with blender or is it cuz my MacBook is damaged?
@@grabbitt Thanks for the response! I guess I will go hit my local apple store and ask them about it. Also how can I insert the brushes into blender for macOS? I append them but then every time I open a new file/project I have to to do the whole thing again. they don't stay in the program permanently
Hi, quick question not related to the brushes but what happens if you don't apply the scale like you do at the beginning of the video? (after scaling up the cube)
Hello grant. I have a bit of question in regards to sculpting work flow that I hope you can answer for me. Do you prefer sculpting with dynamic topology or voxel remesher? Is one better than another? I’ve used both of them for my project but I can’t seem to find benefits of using voxel remesher so . Thanks in advance!
Sorry but. Brushes are always disappear when I start a new session. I must append them every time?( why they are not saved in Blender library or something.
Hello, I can't save the addition of these brushes by default ... So I have to redo the link with the .blend by importing the brushes each time I open blender. Of course, I tried to make "save startup file"
after appending the brushes, go trough them and for each one add a fake user (press the shield button) after you did that to all the brushes you wanna save the startup.
@@maurobarsi5282 im not sure why you cant see them, but it may have something to do with the icons file location. they maybe not in the right folder. look again at how grant setup the appending and look where his icons located. check if yours located the same in the hierarchy
Doubt anyone will see this to answer but I just downloaded these brushes when I click on the picture to see the different brushes, none of their pictures show up. Im also pretty sure that they are not functioning as Grant is showing. Anyone have this issue or know whats going on? EDIT: Nvm apparently they dont work on the current versions
Having murder with getting brushes into blender... I append the brushes, go to use them, and they barely make an impact to the sculpt, or just don't do what they're meant to do (Like the cracks texture will just create a plain dent in the sculpt.) then, I go to the brush panel, open the texture drop-down menu, and all the brush textures turn black... I've tried an alternative method of linking the brushes, manually ticking every library override button, adding fake users to each, saving as start-up, going to 'file > external data > make all paths absolute' which actually worked for a while but then randomly stopped working one day (???). what am I doing wrong... :(
@@grabbitt hmm, I've tried with the same resolution (0.01) as the video, and nothing. :( will keep trying things. thank you for your response and videos though, they've helped a-lot
@@Pesto-64 Just this second found this out myself when appending them tick the "Fake User" checkbox then click append. Then save your Start Up file, check they work, close blender and reopen and they should still be there. I had the same issue as you and this worked for me.
Hey, I just wanted to say that I have discovered your channel over the weekend and you deserve a huge thank you and a virtual hug for everything you share with us. Your tutorials are so easy to follow and they are packed with knowledge. An absolute legend. Thank you.
awee
Apparently you have some witch skills, just a week ago I was begging to find a way to add these brushes into Blender and here you are... A million thanks !
For those that have the issue where the Brushes disappear after closing and reopening Blender I had the same issue and this method worked for me:
1. Get to the point in the vid just before Grant clicks the Append button.
2. check the box marked "Fake User" THEN select Append.
3. Save this as your Start Up file.
4. Close and reopen Blender and they should all still be there.
Thank you very much, very helpful! )
YOU. Are brilliant, Sir!! Thank you so much! 5-stars and an over-stuffed burrito for you.
Also, if you've already appended them them, you can go to the brush settings for each one and set fake user there.
Oh this finally fixed it! Of course if there are no users they just get deleted.
This helped me alot 🙂
Grant Abbitt you are a Elder God of Blender Community. I just love your work. God bless you buddy, so that you can upload more videos for Blender Community.
Remesh! That's what I couldn't remember. And, of course, the pointer to the Orb Brushes. Thanks Grant.
Made originally for Zbrush. Credit to the creator of those free brushes : Michael Vicente (Blizzard Entertainment). One of the very rare people that actually understood how to use the ultra powerful brushes settings in ZBrush to create new ones, when most other "brushes" packs are nothing more than alphas.
Yes that's true. It was a long time ago I created the video and neglected to put the original creator in the description. I believe there is a note in the brush pack itself but i have added it to the description now as well
@@grabbitt Thanks for him ;) Amazing brushes indeed. I haven't tested how close those are from the ZBrush original ones. But it's already great to see that someone attempted the "conversion". Thanks for sharing the info (b^-^)b
Wow thank you very much!! I was going crazy trying to get these brushes to work.. you are my hero!
Thanks aloot for sharing your knowlege! You helped my one more time on my way :).
And btw you even teachet my blender a cuple years ago. You are amazing!
Thanks for looking out and suggesting this helpful brush pack!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TUTORIALLL
AND - if you check the box marked FAKE USER in the APPEND MENU, the brushes will actually save and they'll be there when you reopen the file. And - BTW - this is yet another seriously good tute.
Only one word for this tutorial: AMAZING
Thanks for sharing this! I've been struggling with sculpting since a looooong time
7:24 And I definitely agree with what he said after this....About the Orb brushes
Nice find here Grant. Thanks for the heads up!
Interesting!
Thank you Mr Abbitt!
i learnt blender from you and blenderguru's tutorials. Wanted to say thank you so much! ❤️
How far are you now?
I mean can we learn 3d art just from youtube? Cause I'm a beginner. Pls tell
Yes you can
@@grabbitt OK I'll stick to it then. Thanks
@@purooshresth7809 If I can, anyone can! :-)
Thanks bro.
Working in 3.2. Thanks Again Grant
I see these being used all the time but just hadn't gotten around to installing. I was able to download them fine this morning and installed. Looking forward to sculpting with them.
Seems www.blendswap.com is down this morning. Hopefully it comes up soon!
Here Early, like Always thank you Grant for the vid!
Wow, this is *precisely* what I was searching for this morning. Thanks!
Wow, thanks for the share. Really impressive bundle. I especially like the sharp nick. Very useful for objects like your gold coin tutorial.
Would like to see more practical examples of Orb brushes use cases like this one!
Thanks Grant!
thanks so much grant for showing us the zbrush brushes for blender. It'll truly help me more accuretly on following a zbursh suclpting course i'm following along with in blender. :)
Thank you for your brush~
It's amazing
I'd like to get the brush pack but the Site is loading for like a month, its also showing 504 Gateway timeout :( could you put up a mirror link please? (Location: Austria)
stylized station once made a video about that and maybe that will work for you th-cam.com/video/iQ2lRRtih7w/w-d-xo.html
Same here! Website doesn't open.
Same here. I guess try blendswap again in a few days.
@@AK-sj6vt Thank you the link worked for me!
@@KeineAhnungGRP :D welcome glad i could help
Thanks for this tutorial! Way cool.
Sorry - ignore my previous question! Those were the ZBrush instructioins but I just realised you apped the brushes in your tutorial.. think everything is ok now!
Hey Grant, I appended the brushes and the texture brushes seems to be off and doesn't exactly same as your in the video. Can you please help and fix it? Thanks grant! :D
Yes, there have been so many updates since this video that soke brushes are no longer working
@@grabbitt So I have to use 2.78 blender in order to use these texture brushes or is there any other way to use texture brushes in blender 4.0?
@renegadely859 the bawic brushes have been improved and you can use the textures from the pack in the latest version
@@grabbitt Oh, so that mean i am using the old version of pack. Is there latest version?
@renegadely859 no I'm talking about blender versions
These are wonderful. Thank you for sharing!
This was really really helpful..... thanks a lot grant 👍
Great! Thank you!
Oh yes ! Thank you Abitt sir I was stuck at brush append part thank you very much 😀. Really need that one and please can you do a video on game assets creation with all that baking and node based stuff pls pls it's a humble request.
Thank you ,fan ❤️ from INDIA 🇮🇳
Thank you Grant
Thank you, amazing stuff!
LOL! You got distracted, but at least we know you were having fun!
thank you sir
thanks you for these videos!
Nice!
The only brush that I've wanted the most is not included in this pack, so sad. I thought the "Stitch" brush that you can see in the image folder from this Orb Pack, is included in the pack as well but sadly it is the only one that is missing. That would've been such a great addition and a lot of hassle saved for a lot of people when trying to model stitches. Nonetheless, thank you very, very much for sharing this with us, Grant!
i think you can just use an alpha with that one set to dot.
@@grabbitt Thank you, I'll try that now! I have also noticed that every time I quit Blender, I have to append the brushes again, what am I doing wrong? Edit: I did save the blender file after appending the brushes, as a new start-up file but still no luck.
Stabilized stroke is my crutch for runework
This would be so useful, thank you:)
Thank you so much : )
Cool! Thank you very much!
ty!
Thank you so much
i did the same think and now any sculpting tool working for me any help ?
you are the best
This was worth it just to know that I need to remesh before I work. Noobs amirite?
Thank you llap!
Hi, grant I just want to ask can I use these brushes on my game project without having copyright problems?
Yes
@@grabbitt Thanks :D
Thanks for tutorial. But How to delete ALL Brushes in Blender ?
Hii Grant, amazing video❤, please blendswap is down where else can I find the brush pack?
I'll try and look into it
Very nice.
hi thanks for the tutorial, do we need to append brushes every time we open blender or is there a way we can load it in startup ( tried saving it as startup file which is not working for me)
See my quick tip guide playlist on fake users
are there any resources for texture brushes (texture mask textures) for use in texture painting? i haven't really been able to find this. i guess i just want to add a variety of brushes to give it a more Photoshoppy feel, and add variety to my texture painting. thanks again
Not really which is the frustrating part of blender
link to download brush is not workin..page not loading
hey Grant have you thought of making your own brush pack for detaling brushs by that I mean brushs that you created for specific reasons to fit your needs for sculpting details
Yes I have but never got around to it
This is free? Omg!
i got them all in blender but when i try to sculpt with them there is no change to the defaut cube. Any fixes to this problem?
Edit: found the problem. Forgot to remesh it
How come in 99% of videos no one mention the "applying Scale" Step? Your video and other video about texture painting are the only ones that mention that step. I'll be doing it from now on, thank you!
its something people often forget until things go wrong 👍
Excellent but the site does not open
dude it works well and all but it dosent save itself as the start up file even if i do it like 4 times. Any fix to this problem?
Create fake user
I'm just starting out with sculpting (completed 2 of your tuts so far), so this is a great resource.
You know you now have to do a sculpting tutorial that makes heavy use of these... right?
WOW i dont know about append option at all!
Can anyone help? C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\config But I cannot find such directory on my computer. I have Blender 2.93 installed and If I go to Blender 2.93 file, there are 3 folders: Datafiles / Phyton and Scripts.... where should I copy these?
I'd like to know what type of Tablet and pen would be good for this. What are the best and those worth the $. If you don't mind me asking. I just downloaded this software a month ago and am looking at a tablet and pen. Mouse is,,,, ok. But I think doing the alternative is more natural.
see my review of xp pen inovator16
Help! having some issues with the Remesh shortcut, I just realized when I set voxel size with shift R, then Remesh with Ctrl R, it doesn't work any more, basically whatever voxel size I set, Ctrl R remesh will just set voxel back to 0.1 and all the settings under Remesh are back to default. I don't remember it did that last time I used it.
sounds like a bug
@@grabbitt I found the bug, it's caused by one of the addons I installed, as soon as I removed it, it's all good now.
I have these brushers on my Blender now, and none of them are working like what I am seeing here. Would that because I'm using Blender 2.9 ?,
They should work fine. Check your mesh resolution
@@grabbitt Thanks for your reply I will look into that settings.
hello Grant I seem to have a major issue with the download, i just switched from mac to windows (PC) and I cant seem to get the brushes to appear. (1) I can append the file but there arent any icons for the textures and (2) none of the brushes work even though there in the file. Do you know what could be causing this?
Not tried these recently as the updated brushes tend to do a good job
You are my favorite. But what I want to do is just make a few basic brushes for Texture Paint other than the default TexDraw brush. When you click on the draw tool it opens a big empty menu with just the one brush. It even has a search field so there has got to be a way to add user-defined default brushes without having to do the texture/stencil thing or appending a set of brushes every time you open a new file. I've looked all over and can find nothing. Any ideas?
See my quick tips and fake users
Hi Grant, how can i enable as you have viewing shortcuts, cuz i will teach my friend through discord and id like him to see my shortcuts. Thanks
i use jayanams screen cast
Is there any way to save the brushes so they will be in blender even when i start a new scene? I tried to go to File -> Defaults > Save Startup File but for some reason that did not work. So is there any other options?
Yes see my quick tips playlist about fake users
Grant, what do you do when you add alpha brushes but their texture picture icons all show up as the default brush icon? How do you make it so it shows the alpha icon so I know which texture I am selecting?
I'm not sure what you mean
One problem I have is that the effects of the brush may show up on the other side of the mesh. Is this a matter of brush strength, mesh thickness, or something else?
I've also noticed that glitch, and I end up having to use a different brush
noticed in pics there is a stitch brush, is this not in any of the files?
That might be one I downloaded
Does this add geometry? Any way to do this without dyntopo?
Yes see my note recent sculpting tutorials
Love these brushes. For your thumbnail pic for this video, did you decimate the model? What would be a good technique for reducing the verts on this block to make it game ready without baking a texture file for the details? I am trying to create a scene with similarly stylized objects, but I don't want to use textures. Just low poly carved objects. Any tips?
see my playlist on baking :)
hey I have a question. I have a MacBook Pro 2020 and its a bit slow on blender. when I pick a new object it takes a few seconds (avg around 3-5 sec) to load and select the object the file barely has anything in it. just a few basic cubes I wanted to use to practice texturing on(I didn't texture anything yet, it was just plain old cubes). is this because MacBooks just aren't good with blender or is it cuz my MacBook is damaged?
its very difficult to say but it should not be as bad as that
@@grabbitt Thanks for the response! I guess I will go hit my local apple store and ask them about it. Also how can I insert the brushes into blender for macOS? I append them but then every time I open a new file/project I have to to do the whole thing again. they don't stay in the program permanently
Thanks! :D
the thumbnail for the brushes wont show in sculpt mode!
not sure why that would be
unpack everything not just blend file
@@Lepafigura sorry what do u mean
@@afrosymphony8207 u have to unpack all files from RAR before you append it in your project not just blend with brushes if you want thumbnails to show
Hi, quick question not related to the brushes but what happens if you don't apply the scale like you do at the beginning of the video? (after scaling up the cube)
sculpting is wierd
Thnks bro
Does it work for version 2.92 too?
yes
@@grabbitt Thank you!
Hello grant. I have a bit of question in regards to sculpting work flow that I hope you can answer for me. Do you prefer sculpting with dynamic topology or voxel remesher? Is one better than another? I’ve used both of them for my project but I can’t seem to find benefits of using voxel remesher so .
Thanks in advance!
i like to use both at different times
Seems the file for blender was removed from the zip, cant append them.
Anyone have a link for the zip with the blender file?
And im using blender 3.0
I find I don't need these brands as much in blender 3
I don't have the option to show statistics any idea why?
In overlays should be but only 2.9
@@grabbitt time to update then thanks for sharing
Sorry but. Brushes are always disappear when I start a new session. I must append them every time?( why they are not saved in Blender library or something.
See my video on fake users
@@grabbitt thanx a lot!
Where could I buy such graphic tablets for Europe?
Not sure
Search online for wacom
Hello, I can't save the addition of these brushes by default ...
So I have to redo the link with the .blend by importing the brushes each time I open blender.
Of course, I tried to make "save startup file"
after appending the brushes, go trough them and for each one add a fake user (press the shield button) after you did that to all the brushes you wanna save the startup.
@@drypenguin5174 oh thank you ! it works perfectly !
@@drypenguin5174 it works, but no icons...can you help me? TY
@@maurobarsi5282 im not sure why you cant see them, but it may have something to do with the icons file location. they maybe not in the right folder. look again at how grant setup the appending and look where his icons located. check if yours located the same in the hierarchy
@@drypenguin5174 tnx a lot Penguin! Now it works.
Doubt anyone will see this to answer but I just downloaded these brushes when I click on the picture to see the different brushes, none of their pictures show up. Im also pretty sure that they are not functioning as Grant is showing. Anyone have this issue or know whats going on?
EDIT: Nvm apparently they dont work on the current versions
You can't set them up ok by just using the alphas
Video idea : rigging weapons separately.
Plus I kinda want to know about it
Are these brushes also work for texture painting?
no just sculpting brushes
can't believe this stuff is free lol
ok unrelated, but
i thought you said
"this is grand abbot" instead of Grant Abbitt in the intro of your videos for like a month.
How can i fix the "gateway time out" problem i keep having with the link
same for me
Having murder with getting brushes into blender...
I append the brushes, go to use them, and they barely make an impact to the sculpt, or just don't do what they're meant to do
(Like the cracks texture will just create a plain dent in the sculpt.)
then, I go to the brush panel, open the texture drop-down menu, and all the brush textures turn black...
I've tried an alternative method of linking the brushes, manually ticking every library override button,
adding fake users to each, saving as start-up, going to 'file > external data > make all paths absolute'
which actually worked for a while but then randomly stopped working one day (???).
what am I doing wrong... :(
Perhaps the resolution of your model
@@grabbitt hmm, I've tried with the same resolution (0.01) as the video, and nothing. :( will keep trying things.
thank you for your response and videos though, they've helped a-lot
do I have to add the brushes back in every single time? I tried saving it as the startup file, but they're gone when I make a new file anyway.
make fake user then save the start up
@@grabbitt How do you make a fake user?
@@Pesto-64 Just this second found this out myself when appending them tick the "Fake User" checkbox then click append. Then save your Start Up file, check they work, close blender and reopen and they should still be there. I had the same issue as you and this worked for me.
@@robertshaer6603 Thank you!!
@@grabbitt i did it and the brushes saved themselves but their icons dont appear
Can you tell me how long its take to make a fully rendered character?
depends on the detail of the character