Sculpt Mode wishlist

Hi,

I love to work with Blender's Sculpt Mode — particularly Dyntopo — but I miss a number of features that are present in ZBrush, and thought to post them here:

• A 'Global' checkbox for the Topology Rake function, in stead of having to set the slider value for each individual brush.

• An alternate smooth brush mode that preserves volume.

• A general smoothing tool to auto-smooth a complete mesh or a masked area (in stead of having to add and apply a Smooth modifier each time).

• A general mask blur option, in stead of having to smooth the edges of each mask manually.

• Functions to expand or shrink a mask.

• Easy extraction of masked areas into a new geometry layer with a desired amount of thickness (now you need a separate add-on for that).

• The ability to manipulate unmasked parts like selections in Edit Mode: being able to move/rotate/scale those parts with a transform gizmo.

• More options to establish mask shapes, like a circular mask.

• Topological sculpting (like the Move Topological brush in ZBrush). Now you have to mask surrounding geometry each time.

• Polygon grouping and smoothing of the polygon group edges.

• A solid quad auto-retopology tool (like ZBrush ZRemesher or 3D-Coat Autopo).

• Easy cutting and separating using a custom curve or shape.

• A tool to easily Boolean all intersecting parts of the same mesh (like the Remesh by Boolean deformer in ZBrush).

• An option (checkbox) to let smoothing use Dyntopo as well, so smoothing also affects topology when that option is activated.

• A hotkey to easily reapply the last brush stroke (like the '1' key in ZBrush).

• Being able to sculpt and vertex-paint at the same time, as is possible in ZBrush. It would speed up workflow as opposed to first sculpting and then separately trying to paint exactly across the sculpted shapes. It would be particularly effective in Dyntopo mode.

• Laplacian deforming inside Sculpt Mode, like a blend of rigging and the grab brush.

— Additions from comments:

Julian Perez:

• Improved performance for high-poly sculpts, preferably approaching or equalling ZBrush performance.

• Sculpt layers (The inspiration for this should be Mudbox, not Zbrush btw).

• A way to apply a texture over the whole mesh, like the Noisemaker in zbrush. youtu.be/Puwx5rDFOHo For dyntopo specifically, it would be very good if we could have tessellation based on images; let's say I have a wrinkles texture and I want to add detail with it, right now I can't say to blender to add that detail based on the image, it can only add or remove polygons based on brush size, a constant resolution or the zoom to the object.

• Also, I'd look at addons as SpeedSculpt, Advanced Sculpting and Sculpt Toolkit to implement some of their tools natively into Blender.

The Red Wax Police:

• Add OpenVDB to Blender.

• Bring back the global brush palette.

Remosande:

• An Insert (Multi) Mesh brush and Curve Insert brush like in ZBrush, for quick insertion of meshes on the surface of your sculpt mesh.