lineweight Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I can see there are already a few threads that ask what the difference between the Pencil tool and the Vector Brush tool is. Well, I get it that the Vector Brush tool can do more than the Pencil tool can - namely, it can apply a brush stroke. But it seems to me that the VB tool can do anything the Pencil tool can - in other words you can set the VB tool to create exactly the same thing you could create with the Pencil tool. Therefore - why does the Pencil tool exist at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lineweight Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 Ok - I realise what i say above is not quite true. When I have the VB selected, and I look in the "stroke" settings, I see this: And so I thought I could just select the "solid line style" instead of the "texture line style". But I can't. It's not greyed out to let me know it's not available with that tool - it just refuses to be selected. So, I can't draw a simple solid line with the VB tool. But I think my question remains - why do I have to switch to the pencil tool to do that? Why can't I just stay with the same tool, and select "solid line style"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarKeegan Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 13 hours ago, lineweight said: I can see there are already a few threads that ask what the difference between the Pencil tool and the Vector Brush tool is. Well, I get it that the Vector Brush tool can do more than the Pencil tool can - namely, it can apply a brush stroke. But it seems to me that the VB tool can do anything the Pencil tool can - in other words you can set the VB tool to create exactly the same thing you could create with the Pencil tool. Therefore - why does the Pencil tool exist at all? You can save Pressure Profiles in the Stroke menu when using the Pencil tool, don’t think you can do that with brushes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lineweight Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 31 minutes ago, BarKeegan said: You can save Pressure Profiles in the Stroke menu when using the Pencil tool, don’t think you can do that with brushes Can save that in either tool as far as I can see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted February 3, 2021 Staff Share Posted February 3, 2021 Thanks to the Pencil tools sculpt feature I've always seen it as a tool for rough sketching out ideas before painting or drawing with the Brush tool/ Pencil_sculpt.mov Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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