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  • Published 9 Nov 2023

Grease Pencil - Breakdowns and Selection woes

Executive summary: SHIFT click on layer in grease pencil dope sheet to select all keyframes on that layer and menu select Key->Delete Breakdowns to delete all breakdowns on that layer.

In the Grease Pencil Dopesheet, the Playhead must be inside the range of Breakdown frames (in between two keyframes with beakdown frames between) in order to select Delete Breakdowns .

It would be super helpful if I could select a bunch of keyframes, select Delete Breakdowns, and Blender would detect which have in between beakdown frames and delete them.

To help facilitate this, it would be great if I could SHIFT-Click the space before the layer name and this would select all keyframes on that layer only. If I SHIFT-Click on another layer, it would add all keyframes on that layer to the selection.

Currently SHIFT clicking on a layer in the Grease Pencil dopesheet highlights the layer in green. The layers could still be selected for highlighting them but holding the SHIFT key would mean select all key frames on that layer.

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pongbuster
9 Nov 2023

3 Comments

matt6

Hi friend, I agree with deleting selected breakdowns, but for selecting the layer keys, that's what the alt key is for. Alt selecting a keyframe will select all of the frames in that column, and Ctrl Alt selecting will select the row (all of the keys in the layer). Holding shift will work like it always does and add or remove from the current selection.

On a completely unrelated note, have you seen my comment on your GP extras addon post ? I added another function to it since that comment, and I think it should have a github. It seemed to make more sense to me to add to yours since it was small and the additions that I am adding will also be small, so one medium size addon is better than two small ones. If it's ok with you, I was going to create a github repo for it.

pongbuster Author

I have created a PongBuster github page and put my addons there:

  • QuickTools is in sidebar now; added a bunch of stuff. It is a must have.

Also in Grease Pencil Extras

  • PointSlide (slides points along vertex normals)
  • CutStroke (like knife, draw across strokes and points will be added where they cross)
  • Snapigon (draw a polygon while with snapping to points on other strokes. Auto closes if clicking on first point of polygon)
  • gpText (add Text strokes)

create materials is vertex colors/attribute to solid view materials

matt6

Cool, thanks.