2025-05-12 Grease Pencil Module Meeting

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Date/Time: 2025-05-12T14:00:00Z
Link: https://meet.google.com/xxo-tyin-rem

Attendees:

  • Antonio Vazquez (Developer)
  • Casey Bianco-Davis (Developer)
  • Daniel Martinez Lara (Grease Pencil team)
  • Falk David (Blender)
  • Kevin C. Burke (Developer, Animator)
  • Samuel Bernou (ADV studio, Python Dev)
  • Sietse Brouwer (Developer)
  • Wu Yiming (Blender)

Agenda & Notes

Meeting Notes

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  • Casey: Was wondering if the “Convert to Type” operator for strokes should be specific to just converting poly to bezier curves instead.
    • Falk: It’s also possible to change the UI of the operator depending on the mode to show/hide options.
  • Antonio: Raised the point of having a render setting for round vs sharp corners.
    • Clement thinks that this is possible to add in the render engine.
    • This should probably be a setting/attribute per stroke (corner_type?)
    • We might want to have “Round”/“Flat”/“Sharp” corners. Though Sharp corners need to have a limit angle where they switch to flat corners.
  • Kevin: Is missing the “Keep Transform” behavior for layer parenting.
    • Falk: It would be best if we can have a “Set Layer Parent” with a “Keep Offset” option (menu)
      • The operator would be called with a Grease Pencil object selected and the parent active.
        Then it would give you the list of layers to select the layer to be parented.
      • We should also have a “Clear Parent” operator.
      • Casey: We don’t necessarily need the operator, could also be buttons in the properties editor (Set Inverse / Clear Inverse)
  • Daniel:
    • Feedback thread for new brushes doesn’t get a lot of interaction: Grease Pencil New Brushes
    • Please share it with more people that might be interested in contributing default brushes!
    • Deadline for new assets is June 4th (?)
  • Samuel: No way to see/create attributes for drawings:
    • Falk: Thinks that the best option is to have an active keyframe concept in the dopesheet just like in the graph editor. Then we can display the attributes of this active keyframe (active drawing).
  • We talked about #138220 - Grease Pencil: Let Autolock Inactive Layers also act on layer groups - blender - Blender Projects
    • Generally, people seemed happy with this change.
    • Would be great to get more artists to test it: a build can be downloaded here.

Next Meeting

  • Time/Date: 2025-05-26T14:00:00Z
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