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Grease Pencil to Curves add-on allows you to easily smooth the lines drawn with Grease Pencil in Blender, reduce the number of vertices, and convert to curves with one button. This eliminates a lot of work in shaping Bezier curves from scratch. You can also convert the resulting curve to a hair curve attached to a surface with a single click, allowing you to turn multiple grease pencil strokes into hair curves that are already aligned to the surface (giving you a head start in grooming). Each grease pencil layer creates a separate curve. You also have the option to resample generated curves to increase points. The add-on menu appears in the N-Panel within the "Edit" tab.
You can do all of this manually, but this addon does all the conversion, adjusting number of segments, smoothing, and attaching more easily in a single menu.
In the addon overview on Youtube, I demonstrate a line drawn with Grease Pencil converted a curve to quickly create a chain and a string of lights. I then generate a whole head of hair from grease pencil strokes.
When converting grease pencil strokes to hair curves that have a non-round circumference, it works best when each stroke is drawn vertically with respect to the viewport and parallel to the hair base surface. This will reduce the amount of 'twisting' needed to lay the hair flat against the surface. This assumes you're using the 'surface' for the stroke placement value. This is demonstrated in the YouTube overview for the add-on: https://youtu.be/JRwo-IaJbTk
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Extension is ready for initial review
LGTM!
We've added new mandatory fields: Featured Image and Icon. Featured Image is shown at the home page instead of the first preview image, and icon is shown in the extension's title (and later will be shown in Blender as well).
Could you please update your extension with an icon and a featured image?
Apologies for the late heads up.
Yep, will do. I'll start working on an icon and image. Cheers.
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