After some artist feedback the material selection was not clear.
Now, the material can be selected in the top bar or in the properties panel.
1) If the material is selected in properties panel, all Brushes except pinned will be assigned to this material.
2) If the material is selected in the brush, the properties panel is updated to set the active material.
Added a new Pin icon to keep locked the material to one brush
The loop cut tool now works as expected for the tool-system,
where hovering previews the loop and clicking activates.
This uses a new gizmo type to pre-select the edge.
This reuses the tool defines for the 3D view. However, for some reason,
the events don't seem to be getting fired off here, like the tool system
is getting ignored here completely.
FIXME: Resolve the event handling issues
Add tool options to control how select operates (add/sub/set/and/xor).
Note: edit mode armature select still needs to support all options,
this is complicated by how it handles partial end-point selection.
Top bar is only for settings that apply to the next action
not a way to change existing data.
If each stroke could have a different color this would work as expected,
however it was adjusting the current layer color.
This commit merge the full development done in greasepencil-object branch and include mainly the following features.
- New grease pencil object.
- New drawing engine.
- New grease pencil modes Draw/Sculpt/Edit and Weight Paint.
- New brushes for grease pencil.
- New modifiers for grease pencil.
- New shaders FX.
- New material system (replace old palettes and colors).
- Split of annotations (old grease pencil) and new grease pencil object.
- UI adapted to blender 2.8.
You can get more info here:
https://code.blender.org/2017/12/drawing-2d-animation-in-blender-2-8/https://code.blender.org/2018/07/grease-pencil-status-update/
This is the result of nearly two years of development and I want thanks firstly the other members of the grease pencil team: Daniel M. Lara, Matias Mendiola and Joshua Leung for their support, ideas and to keep working in the project all the time, without them this project had been impossible.
Also, I want thanks other Blender developers for their help, advices and to be there always to help me, and specially to Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vázquez and Campbell Barton.
In some cases we want associate use an operator for a tool
for introspection, so we can for eg, automatically
use the same binding for in the popup toolbar.
Space-G/R/S for transform now work as accelerator keys again.
Also Space-E for extrude.
Based on animator feedback, accidentally not clicking on the manipulator
handle had unpredictable behavior.
This functionality will be moved into the manipulator and made optional
(add an invisible fallback manipulator).
These are set in the interface and aren't useful to show to users.
Other minor changes
- Rename 'Ruler/Protractor' -> 'Ruler'
- Rename Subdivide 'Quad/Tri Mode' -> 'Create N-Gons' (and invert).
This patch adds support for:
- Per space-type tools (3D view and edit).
- Per mode tools (object, edit, weight-paint .. etc).
The top-bar shows the last activated tools options, this is a design
issue with using a global topbar to show per-space settings.
See D3395
