Grease pencil scale issue #99117

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ezra holland · 2022-06-23T20:26:16+02:00

ezra holland commented

2022-06-23 20:26:16 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 511.65

Blender Version
Broken: version: 3.2.0, branch: master, commit date: 2022-06-08 10:22, hash: e05e1e3691

Short description of error
Grease pencil seems to deteriorate as the scale of a camera increases

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
In the attached file I created a door object with a central thinner panel. I then created an orthographic camera at ortho scale 1 in plan view and set the near clipping plan to about the middle of the door in the Z axis. I added a Grease pencil scene Lineart object an placed it in it's own collection to aid turning it on and off and set the style thickness to 1 in the modifier tab. The resulting lineart works fine. I then duplicated the camera and changed its orthographic scale to 2 which also works fine. I repeated this at orthographic scale 3 and again at 4 where the resulting lineart starts to break down. at orthographic scale 20 the issue is very apparent. If I am working on a large scale scene I obviously need to have my orthographic scale high. Please advise if there is a way of increasing the orthographic scale without losing the line art quality.
Thanks
Greasepencil_scale_bug01.blend

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.22000-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 511.65 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 3.2.0, branch: master, commit date: 2022-06-08 10:22, hash: `e05e1e3691` **Short description of error** Grease pencil seems to deteriorate as the scale of a camera increases **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** In the attached file I created a door object with a central thinner panel. I then created an orthographic camera at ortho scale 1 in plan view and set the near clipping plan to about the middle of the door in the Z axis. I added a Grease pencil scene Lineart object an placed it in it's own collection to aid turning it on and off and set the style thickness to 1 in the modifier tab. The resulting lineart works fine. I then duplicated the camera and changed its orthographic scale to 2 which also works fine. I repeated this at orthographic scale 3 and again at 4 where the resulting lineart starts to break down. at orthographic scale 20 the issue is very apparent. If I am working on a large scale scene I obviously need to have my orthographic scale high. Please advise if there is a way of increasing the orthographic scale without losing the line art quality. Thanks [Greasepencil_scale_bug01.blend](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13221791/Greasepencil_scale_bug01.blend) ![camera ortho scale 4.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13221796/camera_ortho_scale_4.png) ![camera ortho scale 20.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13221795/camera_ortho_scale_20.png)

ezra holland commented

2022-06-23 20:26:16 +02:00

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Richard Antalik commented

2022-06-23 22:11:28 +02:00

Added subscribers: @ChengduLittleA, @iss

Richard Antalik commented

2022-06-23 22:11:28 +02:00

I am not able to reproduce this issue.

@ChengduLittleA can you reproduce?

I am not able to reproduce this issue. @ChengduLittleA can you reproduce?

ezra holland commented

2022-06-24 03:14:08 +02:00

do you need me to try to explain the issue more clearly? Essentially orthographic cameras with a small orthographic scale produce better lineart results than ones with larger scales. It may be easier to see what is going on when we refer to these two images of the lineart at orthographic scales 20 and 4. The diagonal lines in the Z axis become more extreme as the scale increases and I guess at some point they take precedent over the x y axis lines. Hope this explains what I found a little more clearly.
Thanks
Ezra

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do you need me to try to explain the issue more clearly? Essentially orthographic cameras with a small orthographic scale produce better lineart results than ones with larger scales. It may be easier to see what is going on when we refer to these two images of the lineart at orthographic scales 20 and 4. The diagonal lines in the Z axis become more extreme as the scale increases and I guess at some point they take precedent over the x y axis lines. Hope this explains what I found a little more clearly. Thanks Ezra ``` {F13222402} ``` ![camera ortho scale 4_3d view.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13222401/camera_ortho_scale_4_3d_view.png)

ezra holland commented

2022-06-24 03:19:49 +02:00

here is an example using a more complex faucet object at orthographic scales 1,4 and 20{F13222424}

here is an example using a more complex faucet object at orthographic scales 1,4 and 20{[F13222424](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13222424/faucet_top_ortho_scale_1.png)} ![faucet top orth scale 20.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13222423/faucet_top_orth_scale_20.png) ![faucet top orth scale 4.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13222422/faucet_top_orth_scale_4.png)

YimingWu self-assigned this 2022-06-24 04:00:49 +02:00

YimingWu commented

2022-06-24 04:00:49 +02:00

I'll take a look :)

YimingWu commented

2022-06-24 04:13:51 +02:00

Hi @ezraholland ! You does have chaining value tuned quite high. If you tune that value to zero and also the smooth tolerance to zero as well, then it works alright :)

Hi @ezraholland ! You does have chaining value tuned quite high. If you tune that value to zero and also the smooth tolerance to zero as well, then it works alright :) ![图片.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13222532/图片.png)

Pratik Borhade commented

2022-06-24 06:39:20 +02:00

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Pratik Borhade commented

2022-06-24 06:39:20 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Needs Developer To Reproduce'

Pratik Borhade commented

2022-06-24 06:39:20 +02:00

Issue is not particularly replicable with orthographic camera. I can even repro this in perspective mode with less focal length value
This issue is happening due to smooth tolerance. Which I think is same as the other report #95740 (Line Art errors when rendering small details)
@ChengduLittleA, can you verify?

Issue is not particularly replicable with orthographic camera. I can even repro this in perspective mode with less focal length value This issue is happening due to smooth tolerance. Which I think is same as the other report #95740 (Line Art errors when rendering small details) @ChengduLittleA, can you verify?

YimingWu commented

2022-06-24 13:55:25 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Developer To Reproduce' to: 'Confirmed'

YimingWu commented

2022-06-24 13:55:25 +02:00

Yes, I can verify it's the smooth tolerance and chaining value being problematic. I think we may need to restore that default value to zero to avoid confusions? Because the user may not notice that functionality. I'll make a patch for this thing.

I do find a little bit of wrong occlusion in some very tiny details, those are not related to chaining or smooth tolerance, I'll use this file to further check the occlusion issue. I think we may leave it in Confirmed state and I'll be able to see to it further down the line?

Yes, I can verify it's the smooth tolerance and chaining value being problematic. I think we may need to restore that default value to zero to avoid confusions? Because the user may not notice that functionality. I'll make a patch for this thing. I do find a little bit of wrong occlusion in some very tiny details, those are not related to chaining or smooth tolerance, I'll use this file to further check the occlusion issue. I think we may leave it in Confirmed state and I'll be able to see to it further down the line?

ezra holland commented

2022-06-24 18:36:58 +02:00

Thanks very much for explaining this. I also found that turning force backface culling on works well for objects that are not clipped by the camera clipping planes as as can be seen in the attached images with the faucet object on the left, but not for the door object on the right which is clipped by the camera. As I commonly have objects that are clipped and objects that aren't I'm guessing I'd need to have multiple lineart modifiers to achieve my desired result?
Thanks again

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Thanks very much for explaining this. I also found that turning force backface culling on works well for objects that are not clipped by the camera clipping planes as as can be seen in the attached images with the faucet object on the left, but not for the door object on the right which is clipped by the camera. As I commonly have objects that are clipped and objects that aren't I'm guessing I'd need to have multiple lineart modifiers to achieve my desired result? Thanks again ``` {F13225442} ``` ![backface culling on.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13225441/backface_culling_on.png)

ezra holland commented

2022-06-24 18:43:51 +02:00

I forgot to mention the small lines appearing on the end of the faucet objects spout where it curves away from the camera. Any Idea what I could do to prevent these from appearing?

I forgot to mention the small lines appearing on the end of the faucet objects spout where it curves away from the camera. Any Idea what I could do to prevent these from appearing?![Screenshot (48).png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F13225573/Screenshot__48_.png)

YimingWu commented

2022-06-25 05:08:42 +02:00

@ezraholland if you have to clip, try to use boolean, or enable "clipped boundaries"

Here I even had more of these small lines appearing that yours. Best way to avoid them is not to use exact angles for now....

Also, check your topology, you seem to have edges that connected to more than 2 faces in that faucet as well...

@ezraholland if you have to clip, try to use boolean, or enable "clipped boundaries" Here I even had more of these small lines appearing that yours. Best way to avoid them is not to use exact angles for now.... Also, check your topology, you seem to have edges that connected to more than 2 faces in that faucet as well...

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