Hi. The Add-on makes fake drawing animation, mainly using Freestyle with Build modifier.
It would be useful to make presentation of a product, or education videos, or homework of art in minutes.
Hi Oyster.
The option is supposed to show up after click “Set Auto Drawing” button, at the bottom of tool shelf as different panel.
I think the red circle in the screenshot indicates inside of tool shelf. So, is there a panel below the tool shelf after click the button?
I just added words for options in tutorial, like “After click on “Set auto drawing”, options show up below”.
If it is a point to confuse users, I’m pleased to get an advise to improve it.
Also, to deal with proper object types, I changed the code to ignore objects except for mesh, curve, text in v0.2.1. So that if select multiple objects, error messages don’t bother users.
If you have more correction, suggestion or bug report, please give me.
Ok, I think the addon is very good as it is, but since you ask
Maybe it might be useful an option for follows a selected curve used in combination with Drawing Order options. I do not know, I’m thinking of an effect that follows a spiral curve for example.
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And perhaps some way to choose the radius of influence of the curve over the mesh.
Yes a curve perhaps generated from the Grease pencil would make an easy way to build letters like handwriting or painting over a space. Simply draw across the field of the image with the GP then convert to curve and follow that for the build. Is that possible?
YAFU, Thank you for suggestion. Changing drawing order along with curve seems good for more fancy drawing animation.
I’m testing bmesh’s sorting face function for the functionality.
3pointEdit, It may be possible. I think the hardest part is how to project curve’s line over position of vertices, and making effect on multiple objects.
Since it is my first add-on, I need to learn more to implement it.
Thank you for report, Oyster.
I’m also using Blender2.76b, but the panel comes as the tutorial video.
So if it’s not too much bothering, can you let me know whether the blank panel below the tool shelf can be always seen as default, like the screenshot?
And if you operate other function, for example go to edit mode and subdivide an object, is the panel shown at left bottom?
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Oyster, OK at least the panel problem was cleared-up.
Jumping at the end frame was intentional, to see result of Freestyle at last frame. But if it is useless, I will change it as your request. Let me think about it.
SHABA1, The zip is the direct link to raw zip in github’s repository. I don’t know much about how Github’s encryption work. But I think if you can download the zip file, you can install from the zip file or extract files from zip.
Auto Drawing Tool v0.3.0 released.
Download link is the same as the top post.
It contains a new option “Draw Objects In turn” that allow users to draw selected objects in order, instead drawing at the same time.
The video shows how to use the new option.
Changes:
New option “Draw Objects In Turn”: It includes “SIMPLE” and “ALONG_CURVE”.
Fix behavior of applying material/world: Now it makes new material/world not to change existing ones.
Fix behavior of changing setting: Now it can turns on/off modifiers, rendering engine, freestyle, afterward.
