Additional Grease Pencil Effects
Coming over from Adobe Flash/Animate, I want to propose a few new effects/additional options for effects that were in Animate that will make switching between the two programs easier.
- A new Outline effect that can be of any one color and thickness (This is actually possible with Geometry Nodes but doesn't account for fills because you'd have to make each of them cyclic manually, so I feel an effect is the better choice)
- A Flash-style glow (the current glow is amazing but doesn't work for a simple blurred colored outline. This can just be an option for the existing glow effect to choose a color, intensity and blur amount. This can also be an option for the above outline effect where you can replicate this simply by blurring the outline.) This can be worked around by linked duplicating the GP object with the outline geometry nodes I made and adding a blur effect to it, but I think it's better to just have one effect for this.
- Inner shadow (Can be an option under regular shadow but it instead masks the shadow inside the object, with all the regular options like blur amount, position, rotation, etc..) This can be sort of worked around through two rim modifiers but it is unwieldy in my opinion.
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On the outline, why can't you use a material for the line color and fill color and the use F to scale the line width?
This is for a non-destructive effect that applies to the entire Grease Pencil object.
Theoretically I can also work around all of these with more geometry nodes, but I just think having them as effects would be more accessible and probably run easier on lower-end hardware, as my existing outline geometry nodes modifier relies on duplicating the entire geometry and changing it.
Modifiers are moving toward being Geometry Nodes as Modifiers, so a separate system for an effect might just end up being another form of Geometry Nodes for Grease Pencil.
No I want all of these to be visual effects like Blur and Drop shadow already are
docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.3/grease_pencil/visual_effects/index.html
Not a new system, just new visual effects for this system. I merely mentioned modifiers because I tried to do a geometry node workaround for outline effect but I believe it would be simpler as a visual effect