This commit adds support for drawing Dots strokes with a gradient factor to get artistic effects like watercolor.
Currently, the option is only supported by Dots materials, and in the future will be added to line strokes, but now there is a limitation on drawing engine and we will keep disabled on Line materials.
Also, added the option to align Dots and Boxes strokes textures aligned with the drawing path to get more fluid strokes.
Before, there was a hacky code for Image editor when the image was empty.
Now, all 2D editors are locked to view and when you Move or Zoom, the stroke moves.
This is a fix of T63402.
Still pending if we add more options to 2D editors, but at least now, we have something consistent.
If you try to erase empty annotations, the operator is canceled.
The message is necessary to avoid the keymap is captured by the next keymap in the stack.
Use annotations inside grease pencil drawing mode is something incompatible by design. Actually, the annotations are disabled in overlay panel for 2D template and the tool icon is not in the toolbar.
The unique way to get annotations was using D key, but this is wrong.
If you are inside drawing mode, all the events are captured by paint operator and to capture annotations, the operator must be canceled and the mode changed, but this change breaks several things.
It's not logic add annotation inside darwing mode, because you can simply add a new layer and write the text you want.
This change checks the mode and cancel the annotations if the mode is not thje right one.
There was a conflict between Object "In Front" and how the strokes were managed in Stroke panel for grease pencil datablock.
In order to keep consistency, the order of the object has been moved to Object level and now it's using the standard "In Front" flag. As all it is 3D, the option "Back" has been removed.
This also fixes the problem with task T62137.
Also related to commit 54ffc4e19d and D4405
When move the mouse/pen very fast, the events were not enough to create smooth strokes.
I have used a simplified version of the same logic used with grease pencil objects to smooth annotations.
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This commit groups a set of new tools that were tested in grease pencil object branch before moving to master. We decide to do all the development in a separated branch because it could break master during days or weeks before the new tools were ready to deploy.
The commit includes:
- New Cutter tool to trim strokes and help cleaning up drawings.
- New set of constraints and guides to draw different types of shapes. All the credits for this development goes to Charlie Jolly (@charlie), thanks for your help!
- Segment selection mode to select strokes between intersections.
- New operator to change strokes cap mode.
- New option to display only keyframed frames. This option is very important when fill strokes with color.
- Multiple small fixes and tweaks.
Thanks to @pepeland and @mendio for their ideas, tests, reviews and support.
Note: Still pending the final icons for Cutter in Toolbar and Segment Selection in Topbar. @billreynish could help us here?
The GP_STROKE_RECALC_CACHE identifier was changed to GP_STROKE_RECALC_GEOMETRY because the previous name was confusing and could be confused with the recalculation of the Draw Manager cache.
There were at least three copies of those:
- OB_RECALC* family of flags, which are rudiment of an old
dependency graph system.
- PSYS_RECALC* which were used by old dependency graph system
as a separate set since the graph itself did not handle
particle systems.
- DEG_TAG_* which was used to tag IDs.
Now there is a single set, which defines what can be tagged
and queried for an update. It also has some aggregate flags
to make queries simpler.
Lets once and for all solve the madness of those flags, stick
to a single set, which will not overlap with anything or require
any extra conversion.
Technically, shouldn't be measurable user difference, but some
of the agregate flags for few dependency graph components did
change.
Fixes T58632: Particle don't update rotation settings
When enable annotations with a grease pencil object, the GP Object must be set to Object mode because the annotation Draw and the GP draw are incompatible.
Now when try to add annotation, if a grease pencil object is selected, first the object is unselected. This solution is not perfect but it's better than cancel the annotation.
Thanks Dalai for his help.
The lock to axis is only used by grease pencil object and can produce weird results in annotations.
This lock to axis function was kept by error when the annotation code was splitted from general grease pencil code.
In some cases (e.g. using old userpref settings/keymaps)
it was possible to trigger a crash when the wrong GP/Annotation
operators were triggered in the wrong contexts (e.g. using
the old GPENCIL_OT_paint in annotation-only contexts like
all the 2D editors).
This commit resolves several issues that were caused by sloppy
code-churn + features that had been hacked on.
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.
