2025-04-28 Grease Pencil Module Meeting

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Date/Time: 2025-04-28T14:00:00Z
Link: https://meet.google.com/xxo-tyin-rem

Attendees:

  • Casey Bianco-Davis (Developer)
  • Falk David (Blender)
  • Friedrich Schäper (Illustrator, 2D Animator)
  • Kevin C. Burke (Developer, Animator)
  • Matias Mendiola (Grease Pencil team)
  • Samuel Bernou (Python Dev, ADV studio)
  • Wu Yiming (Developer)

Topics

Meeting Notes

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  • Falk: Has been working on curve fitting for the 4.5 LTS target to get better bézier curve conversion support.
  • Falk: Has been working on updating the PR for node tools.
  • We talked about this PR #137652 - Grease Pencil: Use solo mode - blender - Blender Projects by Pratik
    • Need to ask Daniel about how this option was previously used to get a better understanding. The name “use solo” is confusing.
  • Friedrich: Was wondering about textured brushes that can use multiple different textures (not just a single one)
    • Falk: Maybe this would be possible once we get to implementing shader nodes for Grease Pencil. It’s unclear.
    • Kevin: In the meantime, maybe using an atlas texture might be a solution?
    • Falk: Could be interesting!
  • Kelvin: Wanted to know what people think about adding primitives to the Object > Add menu under Grease Pencil.
    • Falk: Thinks it would be better to have an Add menu in Edit Mode with primitives. Doesn’t see the benefit of having them in the object menu. But doesn’t have strong opinion either way. Would have to be decided by other module owners.
  • The discussion about merging sculpt/vertex mode into draw mode came up again.
    • Falk: Is for this change. This does require us to figure out masking/selection in draw mode before though. Might be a good candidate for 5.0.
  • Friedrich: Was wondering about the state of boundary strokes for the fill tool.
    • Falk: This is still a target for 4.5 LTS. Has a local WIP branch but nothing functional yet.
  • Samuel: Has encountered an issue with brush assets and the python API. It doesn’t seem possible to know where an asset came from (library) and it’s no longer possible to just get it by the name.
    • Falk: Will ask the asset team about this.

Next Meeting

  • Time/Date: 2025-05-12T14:00:00Z
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