Quick Toolbox addon for Blender 2.8+

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Nice, feel free to share what you achieve with the imgui add-on. it has some limitations like no icon button. We can add image button tho

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Update

Custom icon button

Custom icon buttons.
Also you can now see the toolbox stays visible and we can still use the viewport for editing . Unlike v1, now we can close the toolbox from code after selecting a tool .

@HCederblad

While I have you on the phone here: I guess this question/suggestion is not particular for this addon, but I’d very much like to be able to click away or toggle if you will, menus and pie menus… Is there a way to add in the API for this addon, a bs.hide_toolbox operator or some way to toggle it off by the same shortcut that invoked it? In my opinion, this actually makes a huge usability improvement and it’s also fully logic. Same as Tab toggles Edit mode on and off, in a way.

bs.hide_toolbox coming soon!

[fobsta]

When can we download V2? thanks

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Hii…It’s still in early development. Will publish a alpha version, if it’s usable.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Roadmap for v2:
Cose toolbox on clicking a brush
Bigger thumbnails for brushes
Pagination system
Opening any editor (3d viewport, shader editor etc.) in new window for full screen working
Support for Blender v3.0

@rpserge

This is a bit annoying.

Fixed drop down icon

New Sculpting features incoming…

• Duplicate unmasked part of the mesh with Shift D
• Quickly mask/unmasked part of a mesh with shortcut V
• Delete masked/unmasked part of a mesh with shortcut X

I’m now working full time in Quick Toolbox v2.
So I am taking feature request and feedbacks. If you have any feature requests please tell me, I will include it v2.0 .
Quick Toolbox v2 will be a big one!

[Lamia]

Honestly fixing the search slow down of the UI would be great.

using this lib for faster image loading would be an other.

Blazingly fast preview loads. Images of arbitrary size. bpy.utils.previews drop-in replacement

Hey all, We created a new Python library for Blender called 3DN BIP or 3D Ninjas Blender Image Preview. It allows blazingly fast preview loads in Blender. Furthermore, it can load preview images of arbitrary size. It operates as an bpy.utils.previews drop-in replacement and does all the heavy lifting for you. Give it a spin: https://github.com/3dninjas/3dn-bip We are looking forward to your feedback, proposals and improvements. Niklas

Custom alpha directory set a directory for alpha images for sculpting. Then a way to quickly apply those alphas to current brush.

thats all i got for now.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

@Lamia

using this lib for faster image loading would be an other.

Thanks so much. I will use it for sure now.

@Lamia

Custom alpha directory set a directory for alpha images for sculpting. Then a way to quickly apply those alphas to current brush.

Awesome! Alpha directory! Will add it in v2.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Pagination system is almost done.
Added a new Mode bar (Brush, Tools, Textures, Custom objects, Assets, Material)

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Added a new feature- Brush Collections!
Brush Collections are global so, we can access the collections in any blender file.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

We can add texture to brushes from texture galley.

What else can be added to the Use as menu of a texture?

[Coverop]

Everything looks great, but I have stumbled upon one problem with Quick Toolbox , Weight Mode.

I dont know how to add more brushes to this list.
I’ve tried a lot of combinations but I can’t add more.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Ah, sorry I didn’t add the add new brush button. For now you will need to add it manually from blender’s brush panel

[Cuzmic]

Hi @BMan_Brdloi

really liking this addon so far, I have a question will it be possible to edit the XY location of where the popup menu appears, maybe the menu appears at the center of the mouse origin rather than the bottom right of mouse origin

Thanks

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Hi @Cuzmic ! thanks for using this add-on.
Currently there’s no way to show the toolbox at center of mouse cursor. I tried a lot of hacks to implement it. Sorry for that!

[Alex_Romanets]

Purchased and tried the addon. The addon is very useful and necessary for work. But I have a small wish. Now the UI of the addon pops up in the upper left corner with respect to the cursor. I work on wacom cintiq, and most of the menu is hidden under my hand. It would be nice if the addon UI popped up in the middle relative to the cursor.
I would be very grateful for such a feature.
Thank you.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Ah, that’s a feature I really want to implement too.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Quick Toolbox v2.0 brings support to Blender3.0 with thumbnail view, pagination system, textures, multiple brush system, close toolbox on click and many more.

Download now from Gumroad or BlenderMarket.

[Dock (Hayden Scott-Baron)]

I had to delete the previous version of Quick Toolbox because it kept on reassigning itself to spacebar. Quick Toolbox 2 seems to have the same problem. Is there any way I can use this tool without losing my regular spacebar search?

I know you insist that it replaces the spacebar, but it simply doesn’t behave in the same way. It also slow downs immensely if used with a lot of sculpt brushes.

I really want to use Quick Toolbox but I can’t if it won’t let me keep my space bar search.

[BMan_Brdloi (Biman Bordoloi)]

Hi, so sorry for the inconvenience. You can change the shortcut by going to settings tab and pressing the key combination you want.

[Jaidek (Corey Kinard)]

I’ve installed the version 2.0, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work on my Blender 3.1.2. Here’s the screenshot. I don’t see anything posted to the console or the info window either. I’ve even deleted the old version too.