Grease pencil stroke placement onto a selected surface #129507

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opened 2024-10-29 07:42:00 +01:00 by Vincent Bain · 5 comments

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Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro P1000

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Broken: 4.2.0

Short description of error

When it comes to place GP strokes on surfaces, this section in blender docs says it's possible to restrict target surfaces to selected objects only. Nevertheless, I cannot see this option in blender 4.2.0 (neither on previous versions), i.e. the tab only shows "Stroke Placement" and "Offset" sections but nothing like "Project Onto Selected" (one would expect a checkbox, if compared to Annotation tool).

**System Information** Operating system: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro P1000 **Blender Version** Broken: 4.2.0 **Short description of error** When it comes to place GP strokes on surfaces, [this](https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/grease_pencil/modes/draw/stroke_placement.html) section in blender docs says it's possible to restrict target surfaces to selected objects only. Nevertheless, I cannot see this option in blender 4.2.0 (neither on previous versions), i.e. the tab only shows "Stroke Placement" and "Offset" sections but nothing like "Project Onto Selected" (one would expect a checkbox, if compared to Annotation tool).
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It seems this might of been a mis-communication between different parties that resulted in the feature ending up in the Blender 4.2 manual, but not be being avaliable in Blender 4.2.

The feature was added in 241c19a57a.
According to the commit this feature is avaliable when using the anotate tool (I can confirm it is avaliable in 4.2), curve draw tool (I can confirm it is avaliable in 4.2), and Grease Pencil 3.

Grease Pencil 3 was under developement in 4.2, but wasn't enabled for the end user to access. So the feature wasn't avaliable for the Grease Pencil mode in 4.2. Yet it ended up in the manual as an avaliable feature.

CC @ZedDB and @Blendify can you look at this and confirm if this was a miscommunication or a bug in Blender 4.2?

It seems this might of been a mis-communication between different parties that resulted in the feature ending up in the Blender 4.2 manual, but not be being avaliable in Blender 4.2. The feature was added in 241c19a57a. According to the commit this feature is avaliable when using the anotate tool (I can confirm it is avaliable in 4.2), curve draw tool (I can confirm it is avaliable in 4.2), and Grease Pencil 3. Grease Pencil 3 was under developement in 4.2, but wasn't enabled for the end user to access. So the feature wasn't avaliable for the Grease Pencil mode in 4.2. Yet it ended up in the manual as an avaliable feature. CC @ZedDB and @Blendify can you look at this and confirm if this was a miscommunication or a bug in Blender 4.2?
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Alaska added this to the 4.2 LTS milestone 2024-10-29 13:50:47 +01:00

@Alaska I'm guessing that is what happened indeed. IIRC, the plan was to have GP3 on 4.2, but it was postponed last minute to 4.3. So I guess we'll just have to remove this from the 4.2 manual.

@Alaska I'm guessing that is what happened indeed. IIRC, the plan was to have GP3 on 4.2, but it was postponed last minute to 4.3. So I guess we'll just have to remove this from the 4.2 manual.
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Thank you both for the feedback. Shall I close this ticket?

Thank you both for the feedback. Shall I close this ticket?

I think we should keep this open until the manual has been updated.

I think we should keep this open until the manual has been updated.
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I have opened a PR to fix this issue in blender/blender-manual!104999

I have opened a PR to fix this issue in blender/blender-manual!104999
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