GP toolbox

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

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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)

Passive action

Add an "on save" Handler that trigger relative remap of all path (can be disabled in addon prefs).

function

• 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 :

  • Choose key to Auto bind in addon prefs (since 0.9.3).

  Manual setup: Add two keymap shortcut in windows or screen(global) with indentifier screen.gp_keyframe_jump, one should have next toggled off to jump back

• 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)

Palette management

In material submenu you have mutliple new entry:

• Copy Materials To Selected : copy all material to other selected GP (difference with Ctrl+L > materials is that it doesn't erase materials, only append those that are not in other's materials stack)

• Load/Save Json palette : Save/load materials externally to a json file from/to the active material stack.

• Load Color palette : same as the load above exept it loads directly from a blend file (all the material that the blend contains)

Where ?

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

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Consult Changelog here