Misleading name since it's between 0..1.
Use as a keyword argument to prepare for keyword only args.
Also document that leaving unset has special behavior.
This operator clean any stroke below a defined number of points. This is used because sometimes when use eraser some points keep missing.
Also some changes in the UI menu.
Avoid double label for same properties in single-column.
Onion Skinning: Group custom colors together, and frame before/after together.
Small changes to tooltips.
Top bar is only for settings that apply to the next action
not a way to change existing data.
If each stroke could have a different color this would work as expected,
however it was adjusting the current layer color.
This commit merge the full development done in greasepencil-object branch and include mainly the following features.
- New grease pencil object.
- New drawing engine.
- New grease pencil modes Draw/Sculpt/Edit and Weight Paint.
- New brushes for grease pencil.
- New modifiers for grease pencil.
- New shaders FX.
- New material system (replace old palettes and colors).
- Split of annotations (old grease pencil) and new grease pencil object.
- UI adapted to blender 2.8.
You can get more info here:
https://code.blender.org/2017/12/drawing-2d-animation-in-blender-2-8/https://code.blender.org/2018/07/grease-pencil-status-update/
This is the result of nearly two years of development and I want thanks firstly the other members of the grease pencil team: Daniel M. Lara, Matias Mendiola and Joshua Leung for their support, ideas and to keep working in the project all the time, without them this project had been impossible.
Also, I want thanks other Blender developers for their help, advices and to be there always to help me, and specially to Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vázquez and Campbell Barton.
Although this wasn't so obvious since it
only showed up for factory settings and in the preferences window.
Panel display order depends on registration order,
Sorry for the noise. On the bright side we no longer need to move
classes around to re-arrange panels.
Experimental option for the Reproject Strokes operator to project strokes on to
geometry, instead of only doing this in a planar (i.e. parallel to viewplane) way.
The current implementation is quite rough, and may need to be improved before it
is really ready for use. Potential issues:
* Loss of precision (i.e. stairstepping artifacts) from the 3D -> 2D -> 3D conversion
as we don't have float version of one of the projection funcs
* Jagged depth if there are gaps, since it will default back to the 3d-cursor plane
if no geometry was found (instead of doing some fancy interpolation scheme)
* I'm not sure if it's that useful for adapting GP strokes to deforming geometry yet...
This operator adds a new frame with nothing in it on the current frame.
If there is already a frame there, all existing frames are shifted one frame later.
Quite often when animating, you may want a quick way to get a blank frame,
ready to start drawing something new. Or maybe you just need a quick way to
add a "placeholder" frame so that a suddenly-appearing element does not show
up before its time.
To make it faster to try different interpolation curves, there's a new operator
"Remove Breakdowns" which will delete all breakdowns sandwiched by normal
keyframes (i.e. all the ones that the previous run of the Interpolation op created)
This commit introduces the ability to use the Robert Penner easing equations
or a Custom Curve to control the way that the "Interpolate Sequence" operator
interpolates between keyframes. Previously, it was only possible to get linear
interpolation between the gp frames.
Workflow:
1) Place current frame between a pair of GP keyframes
2) Open the "Interpolate" panel in the Toolshelf
3) Choose the interpolation type (under "Sequence Options")
4) Adjust settings (e.g. if you're using "Custom Curve", use the curvemap widget
to define the way that the interpolation proceeds)
5) Click "Sequence" to interpolate
6) Play back/scrub the animation to see if you've got the result you want
7) If you need to make some tweaks, undo, or delete the generated keyframes,
then repeat the process again from step 4 until you've got the desired result.
The "gp_sculpt" settings should be strictly for stroke sculpting, and not abused by
other tools. (Similarly, if other general GP tools need one-off options, those should
go into the normal toolsettings->gpencil_flag)
Furthermore, this paves the way for introducing new settings for controlling the way
that GP interpolation takes place (e.g. with easing equations, or a custom curvemap)
Sometimes it can be useful to be able to keep onion skins visible in the
OpenGL renders and/or when doing animation playback. In particular, there
are two use cases where this is quite useful:
1) For creating a cheap motion-blur effect, especially when the before/after
values are also animated.
2) If you've animated a shot with onion skinning enabled, the poses may end
up looking odd if the ghosts are not shown (as you may have been accounting
for the ghosts when making the compositions).
This option can be found as the small "camera" toggle between the "Use Onion Skinning"
and "Use Custom Colors" options.
Now, the strokes can be locked to a plane set in the cursor location.
This option allow the artist to rotate the view and draw keeping the
strokes flat over the surface. This option is similar to surface option
but doesn't need a object.
The option is only valid for 3D view and strokes in CURSOR mode.
Replace the W shortcut for subdivision by a new menu for edit specials
in order to keep consistency in UI.
Subdivision is not used all the time, so it's better assign this
shortcut to menu.
In some situations the artist needs to subdivide a stroke created with
few points before, specially for sculpting.
The subdivision is done for any pair of continuous selected points in
the same stroke.
The operator can be activated in edit mode with W key and has a
parameter for number of cuts.
Two new modal operators to create a grease pencil interpolate drawing
for one frame or a complete sequence between two frames. For drawing
the temporary strokes in the viewport, two drawing handlers have been
added to manage 3D and 2D stuff.
Video: https://youtu.be/qxYwO5sSg5Y
The operator shortcuts are Ctrl+E and Ctrl+Shift+E. During the modal
operator, the interpolation can be adjusted using the mouse (moving
left/right) or the wheel mouse.
Previously, they were in a column alongside the list, but because the lists were
rarely that long, there would always be a large gap left below the list.
A common problem encountered by artists was that they would accidentally move
the 3D cursor while drawing, causing their strokes to end up in weird places in
3D space when viewing the drawing again from other perspectives.
This operator helps fix up this mess by taking the selected strokes, projecting them
to screenspace, and then back to 3D space again. As a result, it should be as if
you had directly drawn the whole thing again, but from the current viewpoint instead.
Unfortunately, if there was originally some depth information present (i.e. you already
started reshaping the sketch in 3D), then that will get lost during this process.
But so far, my tests indicate that this seems to work well enough.
After the GP v2 changes, it wasn't possible to easily set the thickness of strokes
if you didn't know about the pie menus already. This just exposes the same set of
settings.
