When select a layer in Dopesheet, the autolock layer was not working.
Now the Dopesheet code calls the function for autolock. Also some code cleanup to move the logic to new function.
This commit adds support to convert curves to Grease Pencil strokes and create the materials too.
Also, there is a new python API. This API is required by the modified SVG import addon to create strokes( see T67065).
All curves selected in one operation are converted in the same Grease Pencil object.
When a material slot is empty, the default material is used.
The default color used is Gray to get a good contrast in dense scenes with dark and white background.
Reviewers: brecht, dfelinto, mendio, pepeland
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5625
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
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.
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.
- 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.
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
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?
This is part of T57829.
Reduce the number of batches used to only one by shader type. This reduces GPU overhead and increase a lot the FPS. As the number of batches is small, the time to allocate and free memory was reduced in 90% or more.
Also the code has been simplified and all batch management has been removed because this is not necessary. Now, all shading groups are created after all vertex buffer data for all strokes has been created using DRW_shgroup_call_range_add().
All batch cache data has been moved to the Object runtime struct and not as before where some parts (derived data) were saved inside GPD datablock.
For particles, now the code is faster and cleaner and gets better FPS.
Thanks to Clément Foucault for his help and advices to improve speed.
The old name Instance was logic when the modifier created new object instances, but now works equal to mesh Array modifier, so the old name was not logic and must be Array.
Also added a Object to use as offset similar to mesh Array modifier.
Before when press . (view_select) the object was centered at the dummy, but now it's centered with the strokes bounding box size.
Also fixed some problems in edit mode when the object origin was not in view origin.
Before, the weight data array was created always, but now only is added when a weight value is assigned.
This change was suggested by algorithm, and both agreed it was good idea.
This commit merge the full development done in greasepencil-object branch and include mainly the following features.
- New grease pencil object.
- New drawing engine.
- New grease pencil modes Draw/Sculpt/Edit and Weight Paint.
- New brushes for grease pencil.
- New modifiers for grease pencil.
- New shaders FX.
- New material system (replace old palettes and colors).
- Split of annotations (old grease pencil) and new grease pencil object.
- UI adapted to blender 2.8.
You can get more info here:
https://code.blender.org/2017/12/drawing-2d-animation-in-blender-2-8/https://code.blender.org/2018/07/grease-pencil-status-update/
This is the result of nearly two years of development and I want thanks firstly the other members of the grease pencil team: Daniel M. Lara, Matias Mendiola and Joshua Leung for their support, ideas and to keep working in the project all the time, without them this project had been impossible.
Also, I want thanks other Blender developers for their help, advices and to be there always to help me, and specially to Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vázquez and Campbell Barton.
This will allow much finer controll over how we copy data-blocks, from
full copy in Main database, to "lighter" ones (out of Main, inside an
already allocated datablock, etc.).
This commit also transfers a llot of what was previously handled by
per-ID-type custom code to generic ID handling code in BKE_library.
Hopefully will avoid in future inconsistencies and missing bits we had
all over the codebase in the past.
It also adds missing copying handling for a few types, most notably
Scene (which where using a fully customized handling previously).
Note that the type of allocation used during copying (regular in Main,
allocated but outside of Main, or not allocated by ID handling code at
all) is stored in ID's, which allows to handle them correctly when
freeing. This needs to be taken care of with caution when doing 'weird'
unusual things with ID copying and/or allocation!
As a final note, while rather noisy, this commit will hopefully not
break too much existing branches, old 'API' has been kept for the main
part, as a wrapper around new code. Cleaning it up will happen later.
Design task : T51804
Phab Diff: D2714
Noisy change, but safe, and better do it sooner than later if we are to
rework copying code. Also, previous commit shows this *is* useful to
catch some mistakes.