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  • Published 2 Dec 2019

Grease Pencil : Eraser affects only active layer

It would be great if eraser erased only the strokes in the active layer so that you don't have to go lock other layers everytime you have to erase something.

This idea was marked as a duplicate of Grease Pencil Eraser and Layers.
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maildileepnow
2 Dec 2019

5 Comments

werwack

Just mandatory... At the moment the Eraser is quite useless when using multiple layers...

zadek

just turn on autolock.

EDIT: actually you are right, it would made life much easier.

zadek

* @Omgzdenek * my only addition would be that by default it ereases only in one layer and then by pressing key while having ereaser tool, you get the original behaviour.

maildileepnow Author

* @Omgzdenek * Yes, the ability to erase all layers at once does not have to be removed but it should be an option for those who like it that way.

Btw I never knew about autolock before. Thankyou, I will make use of that for the time being. Its not an elegant solution. I will have to go play with locking options everytime I have to edit multiple layers at once simply because I want to erase only active layer.

maildileepnow Author

I would like to add that I think this is a very imortant feature that is missing. In every drawing program, eraser only erases current layer. Right now blender could be the only program that does it this way. Flash used to do it like this but they added the option to restrict eraser to active layer.

Thankyou