Hi!
Just as the subject says, how do I convert from grease pencil object to mesh or curve or anything that I can turn in to mesh basically?
/Erik
You can’t convert a grease pencil object in object mode.
But you can convert selected GP strokes in edit mode.
That is in menu Strokes -> Convert to Geometry -> Polygon Curve
We have to add this to the Object > Convert menu. Currently you can do a search via F3 and type Convert Grease Pencil. This should be easier to find.
Thank you both for your answers! It was exactly what I was looking for.
It is in the object menu. The problem is that does not work.
Because of complexity of what a GP object is now.
A GP object can have several layers of strokes overlapping.
That is irrelevant to convert them all into one curve.
In 2.79, conversion is only happening on active layer.
The Convert to > Mesh command in the Object menu is actually a different operator that doesn’t even work for Grease Pencil objects.
We should simply make this contextual, to only show the relevant conversion. Likewise for meshes, it makes no sense to convert a mesh to a mesh. This can become much simpler.
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In 2.82 nothing under stroke in Edit Mode. Convert in Object mode results in an error. Where has convert gone?
It is not supposed to produce an error if correctly used.
Convert in Object mode is supposed to create a Curve object (addition visible in outliner).
Unfortunately, currently, resulting object is invisible in viewport in Object mode.
You have to go into edit mode or give a bevel depth to see resulting Curve.
Then, you have to convert curve to mesh.
Conversion from a complex curve object to GP object works great.
But conversion from GP object involves lots of steps by default.
Qucik and easy conversion from GP to meshes is essentially supported by addons.
Conversion to mesh never existed in official blender.
Conversion to polygon curve was a mistakenly labelled “convert to mesh”.
So, you have to use Object menu or right click menu > Convert to > Polygon Curve.
Thanks for replies. I got it to work once by accident in 2.8 but cant seem to reproduce the accident yet!
Well. A 2.82 build is an alpha. There could be a bug.
First, you should try to obtain a result with an official release : 2.80 or 2.81 (that should be released this week).
If you succeed with such blender ; then, you can try to investigate what differs with 2.82.
Generally, a failure comes with an error message. That message is supposed to give you an explanation or at least, an hint.
When you are aware of steps that are supposed to be done to make it work, and sure of minimal conditions to reproduce a failure ; you can make a bugreport.
But if you never succeeded to obtain a correct result : there are as many chances that you forgot one step than chances that a bug could be the culprit.