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  • Published 8 Jan 2025

Grease Pencil 3 - Draw Sample Color

In Blender v4.3 Sample Color was added to the Draw->Sample Color menu. In my opinion, this is kind of silly as right beside is the color operator that if you press E while the mouse is over the color you get the color eyedropper.

In the toolbar there is already an Eyedropper tool. This tool's functionality creates a new material with sample color set. If you hold SHIFT while clicking you get a material with the FILL color set, while holding CTRL creates a material with the Stroke color set. This is fine if you are working in Material paint mode.

However, if you are drawing in Color Attribute paint mode this tool is useless.

I propose adding the following functionality to the Eyedropper tool in the Draw grease pencil toolbar:

If in Color Attribute paint mode left click sets the active brush's color (conntext.tool_settings.gpencil_paint.brush.color). Perhaps the Sample Color operator that was created for the menu could be called if the EyeDropper is clicked without SHIFT and CTRL.

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pongbuster
8 Jan 2025

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