Before, the evaluation of modifers were done in draw manager. The reason of the old design was grease pencil was designed before depsgraph was in place.
This commit moves this logic to depsgraph to follow general design and reduce Draw Manager complexity. Also, this is required in order to use modifiers in Edit modes.
Really, there is nothing really new in the creation of derived data, only the logic has been moved to depsgraph, but the main logic is the same. In order to get a reference to the original stroke and points, a pointer is added to Runtime data as part of the evaluated data. These pointers allow to know and use the original data.
As the modifiers now are evaluated in Depsgraph, the evaluated stroke is usable in Edit modes, so now it's possible to work with the evaluated version instead to use a "ghost" of the final image over the original geometry as work today.
Reviewed By: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5470
Now the GPencil smooth algorithm uses a average value instead to use only two points and the interpolated value.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5489
This mode simplify the stroke doing a resampling of the points and generate new geometry at the distance defined.
Sample function developed by @NicksBest
New Resample Stroke operator
This operator recreates the stroke geometry with a predefined length between points.
The operator uses the same code used in Simplify modifier.
Reviewers: @mendio
Merge points when the distance is less than a predefined value.
The method to interpolate the position created a wrong merge. Now, always the secondary point is merged with the first one (merge at first), except the last point.
Now, when close a geometry with cyclic is possible generate new geometry for the gap.
The cyclic operator now supports multiframe edition too. Before only worked with active frame.
Also added the corresponding missing menu options and the new F keymap. All these features were missing, pending of the fix of the alpha glitches in stroke already done.
Now, when you add an slot and then draw, the automatic created material will use the empty slot, instead to add a new slot and leave a empty one.
This fix only works if you add only an empty slot. We could remove any empty slot in the middle, but as this has no impact in the drawing or file, it does not worth the CPU time to review every time the material list. Anyway, the user can press delete button to remove any empty slot.
If we see this is a big problem in the future, we can reopen the bug and add this cleaning function.
This was a design decision, but now we have decided to change it using the active material for the strokes using deleted material.
If the material slot is empty a new material is created to keep the strokes visible.
Usually the brush type is correct, but for some old files the brush could be a not valid type. In this case, returns the object active material.
This is related to T61413
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.
- The ambiguous term 'handle' was used where 'ensure'
is typically used (get or add when missing).
- Rename `current` to `active`, all `current` functions which were
also ensuring.
- Clarify what is being operated on, using `BKE_gpencil_object_*` for
objects, `BKE_gpencil_brush_*` for brushes.
A new parameter in the layer adjustment panel allows to define the color of the channel in Dopesheet.
This is needed when there are a lot of layers.
See D4623 for more details.
Using GP_BRUSH_MATERIAL_PINNED to switch between active material and brush material, instead of updating all brushes on active material changes. This will allow brushes to have no material and therefore to not inflate the user count.
This fix T62465.
Patch contributed by @matc
Reviewers: @brecht@antoniov @billreynish @mendio
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
New edit mode operator and post-processing brush option.
Trim works on a single GP stroke. It removes trailing points before and after the first intersection (or loop) nearest to the start of the stroke.
BF-admins agree to remove header information that isn't useful,
to reduce noise.
- BEGIN/END license blocks
Developers should add non license comments as separate comment blocks.
No need for separator text.
- Contributors
This is often invalid, outdated or misleading
especially when splitting files.
It's more useful to git-blame to find out who has developed the code.
See P901 for script to perform these edits.
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.
