Blender 2 8 Grease Pencil Onion Skin

Start blender add gp object draw 3 frames.

Blender 2 8 grease pencil onion skin. Does anyone else have this problem or am i missing something. Blender 2 8 beta in august. I downloaded the latest 64 bit windows 10 beta of 2 8 12 4 2018 and i can t seem to get onion skinning to work. The main switch to show hide onion skinning is in the viewport overlays but grease pencil onion skinning is per layer and the visibility can be toggle in the layer list.

And in blender 2 80 opening the same file bottom image the onion skins show. If you have more than 1 grease pencils sooner or later a layer s onion skin other than your active. Grease pencil is a particular type of blender object that allow you to draw in the 3d space. Can be use to make traditional 2d animation cut out animation motion graphics or use it as storyboard tool among other things.

Here s the blend file. Character sets allow you to create sets of objects for onion skinning and control each set s generation removal and viewport settings independently. Antonio vazquez antoniov hidalgo lakhdi frarf nikola nevenov okuma 10 randell acuram ranakade assigned to. Expected behavior when a grease pencil object is selected the onion skin shows for that object when onion skin is turned on.

Strokes can be organized into layers and shaded with materials and textures. Onion skinning on the animation tool works fine but when i check the box for the grease pencil nothing happens. It s a fresh download so my steps to reproduce are. If you compile blender yourself you can already try the new grease pencil as it is currently being developed on separate branches the main one being greasepencil object.

We have done more things and keep improving it every day. When i open up a new blank file in 2 81 and draw with grease pencil the onion skin works fine in draw mode. Stay tuned for more news. Onion skinning onion skinning show ghosts of the keyframes before and after the current frame allowing animators to make decisions in the animation sequence.

Character sets you can onion skin objects together using a scene wide list or onion skin objects individually or in user defined groups using character sets.