SculptForge Files

Changed

• The app icon is an orange cube on a dark tile (a new drawing, with a small cut for 16-32 px and the macOS grid): window, taskbar, dock, .ico, .icns, Flatpak, AppImage, title bar. The bust and anvil is the brand (About, What's New, site header, social previews); the SF letters are retired. docs/brand.md says which mark goes where.
• Library: a single click uses a brush, alpha, VDM or material. Double-click still works and applies it once. Models, projects, folders, images and splats still open with a double-click (#142, thanks @NicTanghe).
• Maya bridge (#42, thanks @tristratos): Get automatically is on once an exchange folder is chosen; a Send to Maya button sits in the top bar while the bridge is on; the Maya shelf gets Auto (on by default), which loads what SculptForge sends by itself. Both sides check only the other side's manifest (time and size), once a second; still no ports or connections. Reinstall the shelf (install_shelf()) to get the Auto button.
• Corner axes (Draw > Camera > Axes): positive ends are filled, lettered circles (X / Y / Z), negative ends smaller rings (their letter under the pointer); far ends are smaller and fainter and the nearest is drawn on top; a translucent disc behind them (stronger under the pointer) keeps them readable on any background. A second click on the end facing you snaps to the opposite view, a drag on the disc orbits, and the name of an exact side view shows under the axes. No brush ring over the axes. Small / Medium / Large and the UI scale still apply.
• The monthly Discord challenge posts say when it ends: entries close on the last day of the month and the winner (most 🔥 votes, ties picked by the team) is picked on the 1st, together with next month's theme.
• Micro levels: big brushes spend about a third less time preparing each frame's shading (a 240 px stroke on a 200 million triangle head: 11 to under 8 ms a dab on the floor tier). Each changed patch is shaded on its own; its neighbours, whose shared border rarely changes, are brought up to date when the stroke ends.

Fixed

• The guide's Edit > Preferences paths now say where Preferences is in the Classic layout (its own palette in the palette bar), and the Classic layout's Edit palette has Preferences... too. Thanks NicTanghe (#144).
• Reconstruct Subdiv (Tool > Geometry) on open meshes (a border, e.g. a UDIM-tiled panel) no longer reads the mesh's corners and face centres the wrong way round, which failed with "a face point joins 1 quads" or gave a wrong lower level; the lower level keeps every face's UVs across seams and UDIM tiles, and stepping back up gives back the imported UVs exactly (#145, thanks @RodTDai).
• Drag Stamp / Slide Stamp with a pen (#146, Huion RTP-700 on Windows): the stamp went weak or vanished when the pen lifted. A tablet's last samples before the lift fall towards 0, and the stamp is pressed again at every move; it now keeps the firmest pressure of the drag (Windows Ink, Wintab and Linux alike).

Downloads

New here? install/ explains which file to pick, or install with one command: curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/islandmed/SculptForge/main/install/install.sh | sh (macOS / Linux), irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/islandmed/SculptForge/main/install/install.ps1 | iex (Windows PowerShell). Each file is also attached without its version number (e.g. SculptForge-macos.dmg) so links to releases/latest/download/... always get the newest build.

The builds are not code-signed yet. macOS: right-click the app → Open the first time. Windows: if SmartScreen appears, choose More info → Run anyway. Checksums are in SHA256SUMS.txt.