Texture Brush Size Varies with Zoom

unless i’ve missed something or didn’t filter for the right search term, i’m completely baffled that this is not an active topic (found just two entries from 2021)

in Texture Paint, when you zoom in or out the brush size changes - why is a fixed brush size not a feature, and why is it only available as a seven dollar addon (or a free one from a guy in China from 2021 that doesn’t deploy in v5.0) - we spend our lives zooming in and out modelling, sketching, painting etc

how is it that the Grease Pencil size doesn’t change on zoom but the Texture Brush one does - it’s frustrating as hell because every zoom changes the brush size making life harder than it needs to be - surely someone else shares my frustration…

thank you for your attention to this matter

:wink:

Texture paint uses a projection system with a brush defined in screen space. This limitation is being lifted currently with development around a 3d brush.

See latest module meeting notes :

Summary

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2026-09-01-sculpt-paint-texture-module-meeting/45793

and relevant task :

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/156410

I believe a long time ago it did - that was how we had stuff where the artist seemed to continue zooming onward to reveal more details.

I like the View size brush in Texpaint but the option for Scene size is coming as @Hadriscus mentioned, and it looks to work like a charm already. Kinda liek the old Taco Bell commercial, I want both :smiley:

thanks guys, any idea around timeline (w/out me having to read the spec pages)

for some reason that page is preventing access, even after i turned extensions off…

Which page ? what extensions ?

Presumably soon, likely not next release given what can be seen on the meeting notes (wip blur brush implementation) but it doesn’t seem too far-fetched that it could land in 5.4 maybe? don’t believe anything I say, I’m just guessing

thanks once again - without getting too bogged down or wasting your time, could you perhaps elaborate briefly on what is meant by the texture space “us(ing) a projection system with a brush defined in screen space”, and how that differs from the brushes in Grease Pencil

If my memory serves right, GP lets you switch between screen-space and world-space brush size. Texture paint does not (yet!)

sorry man, i meant to include the URL in my reply but didn’t highlight it, so here it is, but it appears to not be working

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/156410

It works fine, maybe it requires login I don’t know