Vector Painting Toolbar

The Vector Painting toolbar displays the option to toggle the Vector Inspector on or off, and to create default vector shaders. When the tool is active, the Vector Inspector markers are shown, regardless of whether you toggle the option on or off.

Vector Painting Toolbar Controls

Control

Type

What it does

Notes

button

Quickly enables the vector inspector so that the directional markers are visible. To quickly turn off the directional markers, click the button again.

Can also be done by using the Shift+I shortcut.

button

Sets up two default vector shaders with default channels and layers for painting flow or normal maps. Also changes the tool to Vector Paint and switches the Painting Mode to Paint Flow Vectors.

Can also be done by navigating to Python | Examples > Setup Vector Brush.