Extra tools for Grease Pencil. This extension was part of Blender 4.1 bundled add-ons.
Add option in Tab Grease Pencil
Ctrl + T
Example with lattice subdiv and spline deformations.
For details, check this Box deform YouTube demo
How to use: (same tutorial in addon preferences)
Use the shortcut Ctrl + T
in available modes
The lattice box is generated facing your view, so be sure to face canvas to avoid unintentional anamorphic offset
Then use the following shortcuts (also displayed in top bar):
Modes and deformation target:
Shortcuts (also displayed in top bar):
Spacebar
/ Enter
: Confirm (Combine with Shift
to let the lattice in place)Delete
/ Backspace
/ ctrl+T
/ Tab
(twice) : CancelM
: Toggle Linear and Spline mode at any moment1-9 top row number
: Shortcut to subdivide boxCtrl + arrows-keys
: Subdivide the box incrementally in individual X/Y axisNotes :
If you return in box deform after applying with a ctrl+Z
, you need to hit ctrl+T
again to revive the modal.
A cancel warning will be displayed the first time you hit Tab (to avoid mis-canceling)
Multiframe edit selection works, but you will only see the current frame during the modal
Customize shortcut in addons preferences, Default ctrl + alt + right-Click
.
Shortcut changed are refreshed upon modifications.
Use Hud: Show angle value and lines.
Reset view (free navigation only): Click and release immediately without rotation to reset (up view point to world Z).
Incremental rotate Use Shift
to increment rotation by a user-defined degree (in addon pref)
Save/restore camera rotation use button in sidebar
Use Alt + Mid-Clic
to call viewport timeline (customizable in addon preferences)
Use Ctrl
to snap on keys
Options:
Always snap
option snap on the keys
Rolling mode
Discard timing information to jump quickly between keys
You have a lot more option to customize the Graphical aspect of the timeline.
Straighten the stroke between the first and last point, keeping the points proportionally distant from each other.
You can affect influence in the redo panel (press F9 to pop up the redo panel).
Influence amount is remembered for next use (You can shift+click on the button to reset and force the use of 100% influence)
Call a timeline popup at mouse position to scrub without leaving the 3D viewport.
The default shortcut to call the timeline is Alt + MMB
.
The shortcut enable the scrubbing when hovering timeline editors as well (dopesheet, sequencer, etc).
Scene start/end and keyframes are represented with symbols on the timeline. While scrubbing, pressing Ctrl key Snap time cursor on keyframes.
There are several settings to customize visual aspect and behavior in addon preferences:
Continuous press on Y
key override default layer popup with a custom drawn panel.
+
button on the right add layer above currentH
toggle all hideL
toggle all lockT
toggle auto-lockX
toggle In Front value of the objectRight-click
or Escape
to set original active layernote: This feature is only for Blender 4.2, Version 4.3 and above have a new grease pencil system + new asset library, so the feature is not needed anymore.
Install included Grease pencil textured brush pack made by pepeland (Daniel Martinez Lara)
This is available in sidebar > Tool > Brushes
panel, in the brush dropdown menu (where you can reset brush).
Fixed an error with layer navigator (Y key)
Added support to groups in Layer navigator:
This extension does not require special permissions.
When pressing Ctrl+Z right after applying box deform, you're going back in lattice edit, but without the addon's modal running to control the operations.
If you're in this situation, just pressing Ctrl+T will re-run the modal and reconnect everything, then you can continue editing and applying correctly.
It usually works, but still, going to lattice edit after apply with Ctrl+Z can gives unexpected result, and in worse cases, crashes. So best to avoid when you can ;)
Thank you for the rating !
The best addon out there to use grease pencil and set up drawings in a heart beat!
❤️
I have a wierd issues with the box modify on blender 4.3. I was editing my gp strokes with ctrl T. I'm not sure what happen but i'm not able to select my strokes again. At first i suspected that i might accidently disable something but when i draw a new line on the same keyframe i can select it. Only the previous one is disabled. After a while the blender file start to crash when i select the key frame.
My steps is something like this iinm:
Other than that awesome plugin. Never had this issue when in 4.2