Grease Pencil Line Keeps Showing Thru

Dan_Christmas · January 5, 2026, 3:55am

I have the grease pencil properties for the grey finger nails on the elephant set to Not In Front, but it keeps showing thru the guitar prop I made.

ArtEffect · January 25, 2026, 4:29am

enable z pass

digitvisions · January 25, 2026, 10:16am

He already have the Z pass enabled.

digitvisions · January 25, 2026, 10:23am

Hi, if you select: View layer > single layer the fingers don’t show through in render.
Also if you select layer001 in render layout it disappears:

Thornydre · January 25, 2026, 10:33am

I found that if you hide your Empties in the render, it fixes the issue. This looks like a bug you could probably report.

zeauro · January 25, 2026, 10:50am

Depth pass is enabled in ViewLayer.001 that is correctly rendered.
It is disabled in ViewLayer that is problematic.

So, enabling Depth pass in Viewlayer fix the issue.

That is normal behaviour. Grease Pencil is rendered in a post-processing pass, rendered after render of solid objects.
So, if Depth pass is not enabled, drawn Grease Pencil Strokes, that are not generated by a Line Art modifier, can not be rendered occluded by solid geometry, because the info is missing to generate Grease Pencil pass.

digitvisions · January 25, 2026, 11:03am

But depth pass was enabled.

Thornydre · January 25, 2026, 11:04am

No it is not on the other view layer

digitvisions · January 25, 2026, 11:07am

Thanks didn’t notice that.

digitvisions · January 25, 2026, 11:09am

Yes i can see now. Hopefully @Dan_Christmas will also see this soon.
i don’t use layers/grease pencil very often, learnt something new. Thanks.

Dan_Christmas · February 18, 2026, 1:50am

Enabling Depth fixed everything, thank you so much!