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    Download brush pack is missing.

    Eeugene
    posted to: Brush Basics

    Hey guys, I added the add-on but the download brush pack is missing. Also the curves in brush settings are missing. I guess I will have to watch the updates video for Blender 5.

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hi Eugene, 

      This course was made with Blender 4.0. Grease Pencil has been completely re-written since then. Blender 5.0 uses Grease Pencil V3.

      It might be better to watch this Course using Blender 4.0. After that, when you already have a basis knowledge of GP, you can watch GP videos for 5.0.

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    • Eeugene replied

      Ok Martin, sounds good. Thank you 👌

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    • Eeugene replied

      Hey Martin, I have this issue with a video. I draw a stroke over it with a grease pencil. When rendered however only the stroke is visible but not the video. How do I fix this? I checked 'Depth' in the Passes and I also played with Back and Front under Empty and nothing. 

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hey Eugene,

      I don't think Background (or Reference) Images are Rendered. They are just Empties, displayed (in the Viewport) as Images.

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    • Eeugene replied

      Hmm 🤔

      So there is no way to export a video with a brush stroke as an overlay?

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      You can use the, what used to be an Addon (Import Images as Planes), Add > Image > Mesh Plane instead. That will show up in the Render.

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    • Eeugene replied

      It worked! Thank you Martin 😊🙏

      The only issue I have is that it came out small. The resolution was set at 1920 and 1080 in output properties though. What do I do to make it full screen?

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Double-check your Output Dimensions (make sure it's set to 100%)...and make sure you don't have any Compositing Nodes enabled.

      I don't know what else could cause this.

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    • Eeugene replied

      Output dimensions were set at 100%. That's very strange.

      I appreciate your feedback man!

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Maybe it's just how the Image is displayed on your Computer Screen???

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    • Eeugene replied

      The video rendered is actually downsized and centered in the middle. Here is the iCloud link. I don't know a different way to show it. 

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    • Eeugene replied

      What I am trying to do is, make a 2D animation and use in as an overlay for a video. Beside this option which I have difficulty with there is another option I haven't tried yet which may work better: Making the grease pencil animation in 3D and then transport it with a transparent background into the Blender Video editor on top of the video.  

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      I don't klnow; the Video Dimensions are correct:

      Video.png

      So maybe the Camera was too far away, when Rendering?

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    • Eeugene replied

      I don’t think so. The camera position makes sense but I played with perspective and orthographic in camera settings, still the same result. 

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Curiouser and curiouser...

      Are you sure you don't have any Nodes in the Compositor?

      And switching between Perspective and Orthographic Camera should definitely make a difference.

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    • Eeugene replied

      Curiouser and curiouser... - I hear you man, it bothers me too, I am an absolute beginner so maybe i clicked on something that I am not aware of, I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♂️


      Are you sure you don't have any Nodes in the Compositor? - I am not, how would I check?


      And switching between Perspective and Orthographic Camera should definitely make a difference - I did by it didn’t make any difference. 

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hi Eugene, switch to you Compositor Workspace, then you'll see if there are any Nodes there (there shouldn't be by default).

      If I remember correctly Paul used some Compositing, to make  new Brushes and Thumbnails, that changed the Dimensions of the Output. Maybe they are still there.

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    • Eeugene replied
      Hi Martin, 
      Correct, there were no nodes there by default, I checked. Let me rewatch Paul's video again, maybe I missed something. 
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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hm, 

      That's unfortunate. We are still no closer to what is causing this.

      Maybe a 3rd party Addon, that is messing things up?

      Could you maybe post a link to your .blend file here (upload it to GoogleDrive, Dropbox, or so)? First go to File > External Data > Pack Resources. Then Save your .b;lend and then upload it.

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    • Eeugene replied
      Yeah, that's a tough one for me. 
      I am not sure about the 3rd party Add-on, it could be but it may take a while to troubleshoot, I downloaded 3 or 4 add-ons since I started with CG Cookie courses. 
      Here's the iCloud link to the file, maybe you can see something there that I can't. 

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