GP toolbox

Blender addon - Various tool to help with grease pencil in animation productions.

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Readme Doc in French (Documentation en Français et plus détaillée)

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Description

In sidebar (N) > Gpencil > Toolbox

Addon preferences

important point of addon preferences:

Set path to the palette folder (there is a json palette IO but you an also put a blend and use a blend importer)

Note about palette : For now the importer is not working with linked palette as it's not easy for animator (there are properties of the material you cannot access and the link grey-out fade the real color in UIlist preview)

• Mirror flip : If in cam view flip the camera X scale value (you can see and draw mnirrored to see problems)

• quick access to scene camera passepartout toggle and opacity

• quick access to scene camera background images visibility with individual references toggle.

• Basic playblast and viewport playblast:

  • dedicated resolution percentage value

  • can auto launch and/or auto open folder at finished (option in addon preferences)

• jump to GP keyframe operator

  • you need to set two keymap shortcut in windows or screen(global) with indentifier screen.gp_keyframe_jump

• Rotate canvas with a clic + modifier combo (default is ctrl + alt + MID-mouse), can be change in addon preferences.

• GP paint cutter tool temporary switch shortcut

  • Map manually to a key with wm.temp_cutter (This one needs "Any" as press mode) or wm.sticky_cutter (Modal sticky-key version)

• Snap cursor to GP canvas operator accessible with view3d.cusor_snap

  • Map nanually (might be autoreplaced according to version) by replacing entry using view3d.cursor3d in 3D View category (defaut shortcut Shift + Right-clic)

• Follow cursor toggle : When activated the cursor follow the active the active object

• breakdowner operator for object mode, auto-keymap on : Shift + E

• Line extender help closing gaps between lines with control over layer target (-> need also control over frame targets)

• GP copy paste : world space cut-copy-paste (bake strokes). Ctrl + Shift + X/C/V Store strokes in os'clipboard (easier cross blend copy) cutting is use a more user friendly (leave boundary points of left strokes untouched).
  Also Possible to copy whole selected layers.

• Auto update : you have an updater in the addon preference tabs (use the CGcookie addon updater)

Where ?

Panel in sidebar : 3D view > sidebar 'N' > Gpencil

Todo:

• Allow to render resolution from cam name

• Update multi output system:

  • use render layers + file outputs instead of batch by tweaking visibility

• BG Playblast enhancement:

  • Add a prefs to fallback to "simple" render.

• Settings-io for projects : Rsolution du film, palette folder, render settings...

• expose "tool setting" of canvas handling in sidebar (visible only in draw mode)

• Move automatically view to match GP Front (depending on Gpencil view settings)

• move GP keyframes selection and Object keyframe selection simultaneouly (Already Done by Tom Viguier at Andarta

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Changelog:

0.9.2:

• doc: Correct download link (important, bugged the addon install) + update
• updater: remove updater temp file, reset minimum version

0.9.1:

• Public release
• prefs: added fps as part of project settings
  • check file use pref fps value (previously used harcoded 24fps value)
• cleanup: Remove wip GMIC-bridge tools that need to be done separately (if needed)
• update: apply changes in integrated copy-paste from the last version of standalone addon
• doc: Added fully-detailed french readme

0.8.0:

• feat: Added background_rendering playblast, derivating from Tonton's playblaster
  • stripped associated properties from properties.py and passed as wm props.

0.7.2:

• fix: Palette importer bug

0.7.0:

• feat: auto create empty frame on color layer

0.6.3:

• shortcut: added 1,2,3 to change sculpt mask mode (like native edit mode shortcut)

0.6.2:

• feat: colorisation, Option to change stop lines length
• Change behavior of cursor_snap ops when a non-GP object is selected to mode: surface project
• Minor refactor for submodule register

0.6.1:

• feat: render objects grouped, one anim render with all ticked object using manual output name

0.6.0:

• feat: Include GP clipoard's "In place" custom cut/copy/paste using OS clipboard

0.5.9:

• feat: render exporter
  • Render a selection of GP object isolated from the rest
  • added exclusions names for GP object listing
  • setup settings and output according to a name
  • open render folder
• check file: set onion skin keyframe filter to 'All_type' on all GP datablock
• check file: set scene resolution to settings in prefs (default 2048x1080)

0.5.8:

• feat: GP material append on active object from single blend file

0.5.7:

• Added warning message for cursor snapping

0.5.5 - 0.5.6:

• check file: added check for placement an projection mode for Gpencil.
• add a slider to change edit_lines_opacity globally for all GP data at once
• check file: auto-check additive drawing (to avoid empty frame with "only selected channel" in Dopesheet)

0.5.4:

• feat: anim manager in his own GP_toolbox submenu:
  • button to list disabled anim (allow to quickly check state of the scene)
  • disable/enable all fcurve in for GP object or other object separately to paint
  • shift clic to target selection only
• check file: added disabled fcurved counter alert with detail in console

0.5.3:

• fix: broken obj cam (add custom prop on objcam to track wich was main cam)
• check file option: change select active tool (choice added in addon preferences)

0.5.2:

• Revert back obj_cam operator for following object (native lock view follow only translation)
• Changed method for canvas rotation to more robust rotate axis.
• Add operators on link checker to open containing folder/file of link
• Refactor: file checkers in their own file

0.5.1:

• fix: error when empty material slot on GP object.
• fix: cursor snap on GP canvas when GP is parented
• change: Deleted obj cam (and related set view) operator
• change: blacker note background for playblast (stamp_background)
• feat: Always playblast from main camera (if in draw_cam)
• feat: Handler added to Remap relative on save (pre)
• ops: Check for broken links with porposition to find missing files
• ops: Added basic hardcoded file checker
  • Lock main cam
  • set scene percentage at 100
  • set show slider and sync range
  • set fps to 24

0.4.6:

• feat: basic Palette manager with base material check and warning

0.4.5:

• open blender config folder from addon preference
• fix: obj cam parent on selected object
• added wip rotate canvas axis file. still not ready to replace current canvas rotate:
  • freeview : bug when rotating free viewfrom cardianl views
  • camview: potential bug when cam is parented with some specific angle (could not reproduce)

0.4.4:

• feat: added cursor follow handlers and UI toggle

0.4.3:

• change playblast out to 'images' and add playblast as name prefix

0.4.2:

• feat: GP canvas cursor snap wiht new view3d.cusor_snap operator
• fix: canvas rotate works with parented camera !
• wip: added an attmpt to replicate camera rotate modal with view matrix but no luck.

0.4.1:

• feat: Alternative cameras: parent to main cam (roll without affecting main cam), parent to active object at current view (follow current Grease pencil object)

0.4.0:

• Added a standalone working version of box_deform (stripped preferences keeping only best configuration with autoswap)

0.3.8:

• UI: expose onion skin in interface
• UI: expose autolock in interface
• UI : putted tint layers in a submenu
• code: refactor, pushed most of class register in their owner file
• tool: tool to rename current or all grease pencil datablock with different name than container object

0.3.7:

• UI: new interface with tabs for addon preferences
• UI: possible to disable color panel from preference (might be deleted if unusable)
• docs: change readme changelog format and correct doc

0.3.6:

• UI: Stoplines : add a button for quickly set stoplines visibility.

0.3.5:

• Fix : No more camera rotation undo when ctrl+Z on next stroke (canvas rotate push and undo)
• Fix: Enter key added to valid object-breakdown modal.

0.3.3:

• version 1 beta (stable) of line gap closing tools for better bucket fill tool performance with UI

0.3.3:

• version 1 beta of gmic colorize
• variant of screen.gp_keyframe_jump through keymap seetings

0.3.0:

• new homemade breakdowner operator for object mode with auto keymap : Shift + E
• GP cutter shortcut ops to map with wm.temp_cutter (with "Any" as press mode) or wm.sticky_cutter (Modal sticky-key version)

0.2.3:

• add operator to screen.gp_keyframe_jump
• add shortcut to rotate canvas
• fix duplicate class

0.2.2:

• separated props resolution_percentage parameter
• playblast options for launching folder and opening folder

0.2.1:

• playblast feature
• Button to go zoom 100% or fit screen
• display scene resolution with res indicator
• Fix reference panel : works with video and display in a box layout.
• close pseudo-color panel by default (plan to move it to Gpencil tab)

0.2.0:

• UI: Toggle camera background images from Toolbox panel
• UI: quick access to passepartout
• Feature: option to use namespace for pseudo color

0.1.5:

• added CGC-auto-updater

0.1.3:

• flip cam x
• inital stage of overlay toggle (need pref/multiple pref)

0.1.2:

• subpanel of GP data (instead of direct append)
• initial commit with GP pseudo color