Align Selection to Grease Pencil 1.2.3 (2.80)

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While this addon is a great addition, i would like to point out that the chosen keymap is sadly conflicting with the basic functionality of Blenders loop selection, specifically the extend loop selection functionality, as it also is mapped on the same keys.

I was wondering why i suddenly had issues, as whenever i tried to select an edge loop add further edge loops to my selection, the first loop would go haywire. Essentially only after some time through the usage of continuous work with the repeat function and then using F9, i found the culprit.
The function to “Align Verts to Grease Pencil” is mapped to the Shift dbl-Left Mouse, which also adds to selections in case you use loop selections. After temporarily switching the addon function off, all worked fine again.

My suggestion would be to please find a better key mapping for that function or make it based on a condition, as i had no grease pencil drawing when the function gave me trouble.

Best regards.

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Ah, yes, you are quite right. That is not good. It’s an artifact from the days before left click select. I’ll some changes asap.

For now, if you want to remove the hotkey registration, first disable the addon and then comment out line 560 and 567 in init.py in the addon folder.

Thanks for notifying me!

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So it’s better to wait for the fix ?

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I pushed a fix to github now. Alt+Doubleclick Right Mouse is now the default hotkey, and I added a preference toggle in case you don’t want to use the default.

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humm not working anymore Alt+Doubleclick Right Mouse do nothing can change that somewhere ?

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hello i try to istall on
blender 2.82 but not works, i try other hotkey without results

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Hi there, long time no see ^^
I made some tiny fix on the addon. The shortcut should works.
Also added customisation in addon preferences to change mouse button and key modifier.

I created a pull request that @VolantKnave has to review and accept to merge theses change in his repository.

But if you need it now, these change are on my fork: https://github.com/Pullusb/align-to-annotations

EDIT : VolantKnave merged the fix in his repository, you can grab it there.

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Hi work well, thanks :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the fix pullup!

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Hi guys.

I just wanted to report that I have had troubles installing the addon .
When I selected the __init__.py file to install the addon, it never appeared in the Preferences > Addons list.

But when I renamed the __init__.py file to AlignSelectionToGreasePencil.py it worked.

Maybe you might want to give the python file its own name (for example AlignSelectionToAnnotationStroke.py or AlignSelectionToGreasePencil.py) to avoid this kind of problem for other users.

Thank you.

EDIT : @pullup kindly explained me in PM why I encountered problems to install the __init__.py file.
It seems that I directly downloaded the __init__.py file from the Github repository.

:point_right: But to download the addon properly, I should have downloaded the whole repository instead (downloading the ZIP file).

@VolantKnave : Maybe you could update the README.md file (on your Github repository) with a note, informing users that they have to download the ZIP file?
Or perhaps, you could simply rename the __init__.py file to AlignSelectionToGreasePencil.py or AlignSelectionToAnnotationStroke.py

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Hi @VolantKnave and @pullup.

The requirement to press a hotkey (ALT + double LMB click) at the end (and for each annotation line), slows down the workflow considerably.

My suggestion:
The add-on could have, in the N panel, a ASTAS tab (acronym for “Align Selection To Annotation Stroke”)
In this tab, there would be a "Start and a “Stop” button** and here is how it would work:

  • The user selects some edges (edge loop, shortest path, or manually selecting edges, whatever…)
  • The user clicks on the “Start” button
  • The user draws an Annotation line
  • As soon as this Annotation line is drawn (when the LMB click is released) the addon performs the action to move the selected edges to the Annotation line.
  • At this point, if the user enabled “Clear Strokes on Execute” in the addon preferences, the annotation line would disappear (which is quite convenient).
  • Then the user could select other edges and draw another annotation line (elsewhere)… and so on…
  • Finally, the user would click on the “Stop” button, on the ASTAS tab

This new “Start” button would inform the add-on that the next annotation line should move the previously selected edges… automatically.

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The idea is cool, personnally I dont “align” much stuff as I’m not a modeler but I understand the need of faster interaction.
I won’t have time to code this but hope someone got interested in the idea.

I have something to say about the UI proposal though :
Maybe instead of adding a new tab that can clutter the tabs even more ( :wink: @xan2622) the trigger button can be added just under the annotation UI-list in the already existing View > Annotations.
This way it falls in a related category without taking much space.

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Adding the trigger button into View > Annoations could work too. :+1:
Here is a mock-up image that I’ve just made:

AnnotationStroke

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Work in 3.3?
I can’t make it work

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