Do I understand correctly that the only way to change the color attribute of a grease pencil object after it's been created is through the Tint Brush? There isn't a faster way like with vertex painting and Shift+K or something alike?
I feel like the order of operations feels a lot more important with grease pencil objects? Set color, then create shape. Otherwise it takes painting over the shape with another tool.
And side question: are there other hotkeys to the most used tools? Like G for grab brush, I for inflate and so on? I'm so used to having my tools hidden in other workspaces that it made me wonder if I could just learn the GP hotkeys and do the same here...
Oooh good question! Ok, so I know you're adapting some of this to 4.3 and later. This is one of the areas that has barely changed. Here are some ways:
In Vertex Paint mode, use your selection modes and select a shape or stroke - you can do this by using your select tool, select part of a shape, then hit L to select all Linked points. then you can switch to your brush tool, change the color in your swatch, and paint. It should take alot to complete change the color.
In 4.2 - Grease Pencil 2.0 - there is a "nuclear" option, in that you can - after making your selection and selecting the color - go to the Paint menu, select "Set Color Attribute" and this will fill the entire color over your selection.
In 4.3 however, this is buggy and will fill EVERYTHING. I have reported it, and I am unsure when it will be fixed.
As for hotkeys... Do take the time to look at your Preferences: Keymap, scroll down to the Grease Pencil section.
There are a couple of useful add-ons which will create radial menus with most common functions, and mousing over anything will show you the hotkey. I alsdo recommend making your own hotkeys for things that make sense - you might want to do this for things you find yourself doing over and over but that don't have a hotkey assigned. I believe Blender warns you if it is already taken now? It used to just swap it out with whatever function you happened to break haha
Ha! The Nuclear option is what I was looking for! Thanks for the breakdown Paul.
I know how much of a pain the new version questions are, but I have been pausing and researching about the differences since the first course I took here... surely takes me longer to get through the course, but I get there. I also try and make note of the significant changes I find workarounds for in the questions in case it can save others the time of searching, but I have to say, Grease Pencil is making me reconsider this approach. Lol.
And awesome! I'll check it out!! I try to limit my custom hotkeys to a minimum because I feel like most key combinations under the sun are already in use. Blender has a thing for hotkeys, eh? haha
Yeah, Shift+spacebar and right click are your friends. At least for me. I also like the option pie menu on drag. This lets you hold tab down and move the mouse to get the mode pie menu. If you just press tab it toggle in/out of edit mode like normal. It also make z toggle in/out of wireframe mode and hold z and move mouse to get shader mode pie. Then again I've just started learning how to draw.
Ha! Too funny, I was just coming back to say for some odd reason the nuclear option was working for me in 4.3.2 and then I saw your update! Happy days!
I also think painting with the vertex paint brush vs the tint brush is faster, if I don't want to go all vertices at once.
True that with the tablets. I use a tablet 100% of the time because my wrists are incredibly messed up and my doctor won't allow me to use a mouse, so I'm totally into the extra shortcuts we get from that. I'd be curious to know what are maybe your top 3 or top 5 ppcaggegi. The ones that you don't even have to go back and look on your old preferences when you buy a new one, you just use them all the time.
dillenbata3 Yes! I did pick up the tip from the pie menu from you before and never looked back. It works well for me.