[Bf-animsys] Grease pencil layers group

[mendiobox]

Hey Joshua,

Is nice to know you are already working on a similar feature!

I really like your strokes+object attach idea, it will allow to use GP strokes in new and amazing ways and showing those object+strokes at the same time could be super useful.  :)

Keep the good work coming and let me know if you need help on the workflow or anything else you need.

Cheers
Matias

From: Joshua Leung 
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 10:55 AM
To: Discussion list to assist animation developers 
Subject: Re: [Bf-animsys] Grease pencil layers group

Hi Matias,


Indeed, I've been thinking about similar features - albeit for other purposes :)


My original idea was that it would be necessary to have these attached to an object of sorts for these to appear in the scene. That way, we could have bunches of strokes getting transformed, etc. by the object they are attached to. But certainly, I think having a way of showing the strokes from multiple objects at the same time could be useful.


The only issue I worry about a bit is how to keep everything manageable from a workflow POV. Even with the scene + active object split, it can already be quite confusing to remember which set of strokes is editable, and which are not!



Regards,

Joshua


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:23 AM, mendiobox <info at mendiobox.com> wrote:

  Hi Joshua,

  I was revisiting your roadmap for Grease Pencil and I have a proposal that I think could solve #12 in an easy way. 

    12) Better ways to manage the layers
    What's clear from seeing several workflows is that multiple layers are often needed to fully render each character and/or prop. This presents the natural issue of how can we more efficiently manage groups of such layers?

  Right now is possible in Blender to have several instances of GP but only one visible in the viewport. 
  What if allow GP to have more than one instance visible at a time? 

  This would help a lot when we works with multiple character/background/objects and we can use the outliner to quickly turn on/off instance visibility.

  I've prepared a mockup to show the idea.
  http://www.mendiobox.com/assets/GP/Mockup_Grease_pencil-02.jpg

  What do you think? Is this possible?

  Regards
  Matias





  _______________________________________________
  Bf-animsys mailing list
  Bf-animsys at blender.org
  http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-animsys





--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Bf-animsys mailing list
Bf-animsys at blender.org
http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-animsys
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-animsys/attachments/20150721/f07cb442/attachment.html>