2024-06-17 Grease Pencil Module Meeting

filedescriptor · June 17, 2024, 4:02pm

Date/Time: 2024-06-17T14:00:00Z
Link: https://meet.google.com/xxo-tyin-rem
Attendees:

Topics

Status update
- GPv3 is now the default Grease Pencil in Blender 4.3.
  - Experimental options are removed.
  - GPv2 is not exposed at the UI level, but still accessible via python. Will be fully removed at a later stage. The goal is to only have GPv3 in 4.3.
- Until August 28th (start of bcon2) work on missing features will be ongoing. After that the focus will be on bug fixing and stabilizing.
Development updates
- Draw Tool updates (by Falk)
  - Smooth post-process option
  - Stabilize stroke setting
  - Simplify option is now in screen space (pixels) rather than world space
- Layer group color tags (by Pratik)
- Set curve/handle type (by Casey)
  - Work on curve editing is on-going, these operators are only the first step and without overlay/rendering support not useful on their own.

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Antonio: It would be nice if we can add layer group filtering for modifiers for this release.
- Falk: Agrees, lets hope we can get to it in time. #123323: GPv3: Add layer group filtering to modifiers
Samuel: On the topic of the filters in the modifiers by name, it would be nice if these could update when the name of the layer/group changes.
- #123321: Update names of layers in modifier filters when layer name changes
Antonio: While drawing a long stroke, Blender slows down more and more.
- Falk: Noticed this too. Will have to investigate further and profile. We haven’t been focusing on performance so far.
Antonio: Mentioned some missing features. Falk will look into adding todo tasks for these.
- Trace Image
- Import/Export (needs a task)
- Keymap for I in draw mode for the keyframe menu (insert/clean/etc.)
- Overlay menu is missing some entries, e.g. Grid
- Selection tool in sculpt mode