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  • Published 6 Aug 2026

Weight Painting: Settings should be kept for custom brushes

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature request, if it's intentional or not but I'll write it here.

I notice when painting weights, my settings get reset everytime I exit out of the mode to check on poses to then go back into the brush to adjust things. Settings such as auto-normalize in brushes keeps getting turned on.

In addition, I ended up making my own custom brush where I set some other settings I prefer. Such as 'Mix' instead of 'Add' and 'Sphere' project instead of 'Planer'.

However during my weight painting process and exiting in and out of the tab, I come to find specific settings are reset. Such as auto-normalize is on and some settings I specifically want to clone just to keep.

Even if it's not a bug, I find these automatic settings to be troublesome and fighting over some assumtions I've with it.

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eug
6 Aug 2026

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pxy-gnomes

Good topic! That reset behavior I believe started on Blender 5.0.

And I know from experience, the reset from "Mix" to "Add", is particularly detrimental to my Workflow; Mix is about being exact for certain Weights' values, while Add is to no avail on that regard.

I can then assume it might be similar to all the other issues.

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