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Grease pencil nodes.

Grease Pencil Color

Reads the color of the points and of the fills. Use it to drive other values from the colors you painted, or to select all strokes of one color with a Compare node. The Point output is the stroke color of each point. The Fill output is the fill color of each stroke.

Outputs

Point

Data type: Color.

The stroke color of each point.

Fill

Data type: Color.

The fill color of each stroke.

Grease Pencil Draw Time

Tells you when a stroke was drawn. Use it to replay a drawing in the order it was made, for example by deleting every point whose time is later than the current frame, so that the drawing appears to be drawn live. Both values are in seconds.

Outputs

Creation Time

Data type: Float.

The time at which the stroke was created. Every point of a stroke has the same value.

Delta Time

Data type: Float.

How long after the start of its stroke each point was drawn.

Grease Pencil Fill ID

Reads the fill group of each stroke. Strokes that have the same Fill ID are filled together as one shape, which is how an outline made of several strokes gets a single fill. Use it to find out which strokes belong to the same fill, or to select all strokes of one fill.

Outputs

Fill ID

Data type: Integer.

The number of the fill group. Strokes with the same number share one fill.

Grease Pencil Opacity

Reads how opaque the strokes and the fills are. Use it to select faint strokes, for example to delete everything below a chosen opacity, or to fade a drawing by feeding the value into a Set Grease Pencil Color node.

Outputs

Point

Data type: Float.

The opacity of each point of a stroke, from 0 (invisible) to 1 (solid).

Fill

Data type: Float.

The opacity of the fill of each stroke, from 0 to 1.

Grease Pencil Stroke Softness

Reads the softness of each stroke. Softness is the falloff toward the border of the stroke: 1 is a sharp border and lower values fade out toward the edge. Use it to pick out soft or sharp strokes, or to compare values before you change them with Set Grease Pencil Softness.

Outputs

Softness

Data type: Float.

The softness of each stroke.

Grease Pencil Stroke Visibility

Tells you which strokes are hidden. Hidden strokes still exist; they are only not drawn. Use it to skip hidden strokes in an operation, or to delete them for good.

Outputs

Is Hidden

Data type: Boolean.

True for strokes that are hidden.

Named Layer Selection

Outputs a selection of a grease pencil layer by its name.

Inputs

Name

Data type: String.

The name of the selection.

Outputs

Selection

Data type: Boolean.

The selected grease pencil geometry.

Write

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Grease pencil nodes.

Set Grease Pencil Color

Sets the color and opacity of grease pencil strokes, fills or both. Use it to recolor a drawing procedurally, for example to tint strokes by their layer or to fade the drawing out over time. Only the selected part of the drawing changes.

Inputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

The grease pencil geometry.

Selection

Data type: Boolean.

Which strokes are changed. By default everything is.

Mode

Data type: Menu.

What is colored: Stroke changes the stroke color, Fill changes the fill color and Both changes both.

Color

Data type: Color.

The new color.

Opacity

Data type: Float.

The new opacity, from 0 (invisible) to 1 (solid).

Outputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

The grease pencil geometry with the new colors.

Set Grease Pencil Depth

Set the grease pencil depth order to use. By 2d layers, or by the position in 3d space.

Inputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

The grease pencil geometry.

Properties

Depth Order

2D Layers

Set the grease pencil depth by the 2d layers.

3D Location

Set the grease pencil depth by the postion in 3d space.

Outputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

The grease pencil geometry.

Set Grease Pencil Softness

Adjust the falloff towards the stoke border.

Inputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

The grease pencil geometry.

Selection

Data type: Boolean.

A selection of the grease pencil geometry.

Softness

Data type: Float.

The falloff softness. A value of 1 means sharp border. A falloff of 0 means a falloff from the center to the border with a complete transparency at the border.

Outputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

The grease pencil geometry.

Operations

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Grease Pencil nodes.

Grease Pencil to Curves

Converts a grease pencil geometry to a curve geometry

Inputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

The grease pencil geometry.

Selection

Data type: Boolean.

A selection of the grease pencil geometry.

Layers as Instances

Data type: Boolean.

Generate a separate curve instance for every layer.

Outputs

Curves

Data type: Geometry.

Curves output.

Merge Layers

Merge all grease pencil layers into one layer

Grease Pencil

The grease pencil geometry.

Selection

A selection of the grease pencil geometry.

Group ID

In By Group ID mode. Input a group ID value.

Properties

Mode

By Name

Combine all layers which have the same name.

By Group ID

Combine all layers by a provided Group ID.

Outputs

Grease Pencil

Data type: Geometry.

Grease Pencil geometry output.