Shade Brush and Palette ranges

Select the first group

1. 1

   Choose Shade Brush

   Open the normal Paint brush dropdown and select Shade Brush.

   Paint mode > Brush dropdown > Shade Brush

2. 2

   Drag across the Palette

   Press one swatch and drag across a contiguous set of native Palette colors.

3. 3

   Check the outline

   The selected swatches receive a color-coded outline and folder tab. The Paint toolbar shows a compact copy of the active group.

Keep more material ramps active

1. 1

   Create another group

   Choose Add Shade Group, or hold Ctrl while dragging across another contiguous Palette range.

2. 2

   Switch the active group

   Click any marked group. Its accent and folder tab identify which range is active for controls that use one group.

3. 3

   Paint across the model

   Shade Brush finds the group that contains each painted pixel, so separate material ramps can stay selected during one workflow.

Paint darker or lighter

• Left paint moves an exact matching pixel to the preceding swatch.
• Right paint moves it to the following swatch when right-click model painting is enabled.
• The first and last colors clamp instead of wrapping.
• Colors outside the selected range stay untouched.
• Source alpha is preserved.
• A pixel advances at most once during one stroke.

Groups are shared