Layers¶

Grease Pencil sketches are organized in layers, much like the image layers in the GIMP or Photoshop®. These layers are non related to any of the other layer systems in Blender.

The layers' main purpose is to gather sketches that are related in some meaningful style (east.thou. "blocking notes", "managing director's comments on blocking", or "guidelines"). For this reason, all the strokes on a layer (not simply those made after a particular alter) are afflicted by that layer'south color, opacity, and stroke thickness settings.

Layers are managed in the Grease Pencil Panel of the Properties region Northward shown here.

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Grease Pencil Panel.

Grease Pencil Information¶

Apply the post-obit controls to Add, Remove or adjust the position of a layer in the listing.

Source
Scene
Grease Pencil data is attached to the electric current scene is used, unless the active object already has Grease Pencil data (i.e old files).
Object
Grease Pencil data is fastened to the active object are used. This is required when using pre two.73 add-ons.
Grease Pencil
Used to select the Grease Pencil data-block to use for layers. For controls see Data-Block Menu.
Active Layer

A List Views & Presets of layers attached to each scene or object.

Parent (os icon)
Indicates that a parent has been ready for the layer.
Lock (padlock icon)
Locks the ability to edit the current layers layer.
Hide (eye icon) H
Hides the current layer in the cartoon region.
Unlock Colour (palette with arrow icon)
Unprotects selected colors from further editing and/or frame changes.
Isolate (padlock icon) NumpadAsterix
To restrict editing to the active layer only.
Isolate (visible) (eye icon)
An option of Isolate to also affect the visibility.
Specials
Duplicate Layer
Creates a copy of the electric current layer.
Show All Alt-H
Makes all hidden layers visible.
Hibernate Others Shift-H
Makes all non selected layers hidden.
Lock/Unlock All
Locks/Unlocks all of the layers. This can exist useful to prevent unwanted editing.
Merge Down
Merges the electric current layer with the layer below it.

Note

By default, most operations occur only on the active layer highlighted in the listing.

Appearance Settings¶

These settings tin be used to change how the active layer appears.

Opacity
The transparency of the layer.
X-Ray
Makes the lines visible when they pass behind other objects in the scene.
Evidence Points
Draws the start/terminate points that make upwards the stroke.
Tint
Color
The color to tint the layer.
Factor
The amount that the Tint Color has on the layer.
Thickness Change

A relative alter in pixels to apply to the thickness of all stroke in the active layer (works similar a modifier).

Utilize (manus and bulged in blueish line icon)
If the apply push is pressed, the thickness alter is applied and the value is reset to aught.

Animation¶

Parent

An Information ID to select the parent object. The strokes of the layer will follow parent transformations.

Type

Type of parent relation.

Object, Armature, Bone

Lock Frame
Locks the electric current frame displayed past layer.
Delete Frame
Deletes the active frame for the active Grease Pencil Layer.

Onion Skinning¶

Onion-skinning, besides known as ghosting, helps an animator by displaying the neighboring frames as a faded trail.

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Grease Pencil Onion Skinning.

A: Use Custom Colors

Onion Skinning
Checkbox to enable onion skinning.
Always Utilize (camera icon)
If enabled ghosts are displayed when scrubbing the view and/or playing dorsum animation.
Use Custom Colors (palette icon)
Toggles to use the Before and After controls to alter the color of the ghosted frames.
Before/Afterward
Color
The color of the strokes earlier/later the current frame.
Before/After Range
The maximum number of ghosts to show before/afterwards the current frame. 0 will only show the previous/adjacent sketch, and -1 will not bear witness whatever frames before/after current.