Just committed a feature from Jason WIlkin’s GSoC: the Area Plane brush mapping mode. (It was called Wrap mode in soc-2011-onion.)
Basically this feature does a much better job of preserving brush textures when sculpting on a portion of the mesh at an extreme angle to the view.
GREAT!!!! THANKS A LOT! A very useful feature!
I likey. Now I just need some time to do some modeling.