Blender 3.0: Grease Pencil¶

Line Art¶

Speed up tile access. (6ad4b8b7)
Better tolerance to faces perpendicular to view. (5b176b66)
Threaded object loading. (1b07b7a0)
Cached calculation for modifiers that are in the same stack. (247abdbf)
Loose edge type and related chaining improvements. (841df831)
Option to filter feature line using freestyle face mark. (3558bb8e)
Occlussion effectiveness support for mesh material. (cf21ba37)
Option to filter feature line with collection intersection masks. (d1e0059e)
Camera overscan allows line art effective range to go beyond image frame, preventing strokes from ending right at the border. (8e9d06f5)
Automatic crease with flat/smooth surfaces, which allows crease detection to follow smooth/flat shading and auto-smooth configuration. (c1cf66bff3)
Stroke offset function, allow strokes to be interacting with scene depth without showing in-front of everything.(c3ef1c15)
Custom camera allows line art to compute strokes from other cameras instead of the active one.(efbd3642)
Trimming edges right at the image border, useful when having multiple camera setup where you want the border to be clean.(ec831ce5)

New operator to bake GPencil transformed strokes into a new GPencil object. (06f86dd4d9)
Multiframe support added to Reproject operator. (e1acefd45e)
Multiframe support added to Move to Layer operator. (e4cebec647)
Mask layer list now can be reordered. (8032bd98d8)
Now Blank objects include Layer and Material by default. (5cb1e18f72)
Added support to convert Text to Grease Pencil object. (41820e8a8e)
New Bracket keymaps ([, ]) to increase and decrease brush size. (c58bf31aed)
New operator to Copy materials to other grease pencil object. Can copy Active or All materials. (960535ddf3), (f6cb9433d4)
Layer Copy to Object has been renamed to Copy Layer to Object and allows to copy all layers at once. (960535ddf3), (f6cb9433d4)
New operator to normalize the Thickness or the Opacity of Strokes. (f944121700)
New Select Random operator. (a7aeec2655)
New Convert Mesh to Grease Pencil copy the Vertex Groups with weights. (88dc274d05)
Automerge when drawing strokes has been improved for better join when thickness is very different. (ae334532cf)

New Dilate parameter for Fill brush to expand filled area to fill small gaps. (f8f6e0b256)
Annotations: Restore the Placement parameter in 2D Editors. (6ee14c966d)

The Topbar Leak Size parameter has been replaced by new Dilate parameter. Leak Size has been moved to Advanced panel. (f8f6e0b256)
Removed duplicated B keymap to insert Blank keyframe in Drawing Mode. This was old keymap and it has been replaced with I menu. (0467979425)
Annotations now display Stabilizer parameters in topbar and also in VSE. (0a83f32d79)
New Use Lights option now available for when creating line art GPencil objects to allow convenient access to desired effect. (45b28c0f88)

New option in Topbar to define the type of caps (Rounded/Flat) used in new strokes. (c1730ed165)
New keymap Shift+Ctrl+Mto merge layer. (27b9cb7a1e)
Added buttons to move Up and Down Vertex Groups in the list. (2b64b4d90d)
Use Scale Thickness option is now enabled by default in 2D template. (6fc92b296f)
List of modifiers reorganized moving some of them to new Modify column. (9cf593f305)

New Vertex Weight modifiers to generate weights base on Proximity or Angle on the fly to be used in any modifier. (29b65f5345, 368b56c9a1)
New Randomize options for Offset modifier. (6a2bc40e01)
Now Offset modifier uses the weights in the randomize parameters. (b73dc36859)
New Length modifier that allows modification to stroke length in percentage to its own length or in geometry space (cd16123761), also supports extending strokes based on curvature (25e548c96b).

New Dot-dash modifier that allows generating dot-dash lines and assign different materials to each segments. (a2c5c2b406)

Added a new option to use masks during view layer render (e459a25e6c). This toggle can be found in the

"Layers" -> "Relations" panel called "Use Masks in Render". The option is disabled if there is no view layer selected.