Dotted Line Step Not Working

I'm following along at about 18:00 in the video. I create the Dotted Line layer, select the grease pencil object, go to edit mode, select the two vertices, and hit L to grab all the linked vertices. But when I hit M and move to the Dotted Line Layer the black lines disappear. All I see are faint green lines and nothing I do will turn them into dotted lines like in the video. Any help is much appreciated!3.png

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    Maybe you have the layer hidden? Make sure the eye icon is on. Perhaps the value in the dot dash modifier doesn't correspond to the scale of the pencil object and you need to fiddle around with the values?

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Did you watch the video till the end?

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  • Jack Medford(jamford) replied

    Omar - I've tried hiding and un-hiding, but no luck. The layer doesn't seem to be hidden. The error happens before the dot dash modifier is added, so I don't think it's anything to do with that.

    Martin - I watched up to about minute 25. Is there something toward the end that might explain this? 

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  • Martin Bergwerf replied

    Hey Jack,

    No. It was more that in general this happens a lot (that people stop watching as soon as they hit a 'roadblock') and the actual making it into dotted lines is further in the video: at around min 18 is just the moving the lines to the Dotted Layer...

    But anyway, I am not very proficient at GP yet, but I couldn't reproduce your error...Paul will probably (hopefully) know what could be the cause...

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  • Omar Domenech replied

    You can upload your file and post the link so we can download it and try to figure out what might be going on. 

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  • Paul Caggegi replied

    Hi Jack, I'm going to make an educated guess, but I think you were working on frame 0 at some point, then are working on frame 1. This appears to be an onion-skin overlay. go back one frame, or ONLY work on frame one and see if this fixes the issue?

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  • Paul Caggegi replied

    Second suggestion: toggle into rendered view - normally material view will show modifiers, and effects are only seen in Rendered view - this could also be an issue? Trouble-shooting suggestion.

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  • Jack Medford(jamford) replied

    Paul! You're a life saver! I don't know how/when I switched frames, but going back to frame 0 makes everything look the way it's supposed to. In the video I notice you're on frame 1. Will working on frame 0 create any issues for me going forward or should I be all good?

    Thanks again!


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  • Paul Caggegi replied

    Hey Jack! I would recommend you work all on the same frame, yes. If you've not gone too far ahead, simply delete that offending keyframe on frame 1 (look down at the dope sheet) then move your key frame from 0 to 1 (click and drag it, or select, G-Key move) then continue.

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  • Jack Medford(jamford) replied

    Will do! Thanks again.

    Funny thing is I did the exercise to make the Standard Manga Template. Made sure not to move key frames, yet the same exact thing happened! No idea when I'm moving from one key frame to another, but at least ow I know the fix!

  • Paul Caggegi replied

    Hmm, thanks for the heads-up, Jack! When I get a second, I'll review that lesson and see if there's anything I can draw attention to a bit better so others avoid this in future.