Grease Pencil › Weight Paint: every menu, tool, sidebar tab and context menu of this mode, on one page. Use the panels on the right to jump between the regions.

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Weights Menu

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Weight Paint Mode - Weights Menu

Normalize All

Normalizes the weight of all Vertex groups so that the values for the single vertices in the sum is 1.

Last Operator Normalize all Vertex Group

Lock Active

Keep the values of the active group while normalizing others.

Smooth

Smooths the weight for selected vertices.

Last Operator Smooth Vertex Group

Sample Weight

Pick the weight under the mouse by a click.

Tool Shelf

Tools

Tool Shelf - Grease Pencil - Weight Paint Mode

You can rig grease pencil strokes. And so you need a weight paint mode.

The brush settings are covered in the chapter Editors - Properties Editor - Tools Tab - Grease Pencil Object.

Brush

Draws a weight on a stroke. This draws to the active vertex group of the grease pencil. If there is no vertex group, it will automatically create one when drawing.

Allows you to weight paint the current stroke with the settings defined in the brush panel.

Sidebar

Weight Paint Mode

Grease Pencil - Weight Paint Mode

The Tools tab in Weight Paint Mode provides you the tools to do weight painting at a mesh. Skinned characters for example. Also grease pencil strokes can be skinned to a skeleton. In Weight Paint Mode you can weight paint your strokes.

Brush Asset Panel

The Brush Asset Panel contains the different Brushes and some Brush settings. Choose and adjust your current active brush.

Browse Brush

The big image at the top is a dropdown box that allows you to choose a brush. Click at it, and you will see the different brushes. A click at one of the images will choose this brush then.

Brushes are assets. You can load them from different libraries if you want.

Brush Specials menu

This menu becomes active when you create a new brush. Which can be done wiht the Plus button in the name property. This data cannot be changed for builtin system brushes.

Edit Metadata

Calls a popup where you can adjust further informations and settings for the brush.

Name

The edit box below the Image shows the name of the current active brush.

The + button allows you to add a new pencil with the current settings. Note that the brushes are NOT automatically saved when you close Bforartists. You need to save the brush asset. See above.

The X button deletes the brush from the brushes list and from the asset library. This button is just active with a custom brush. You will be prompted by a warning so that you don't accidentally remove the brush.

Brush Settings Panel

The Brush Settings Panel contains the Brush settings. The content differs, dependent of which brush you have chosen.

Brush Settings Panel - Average brush

Smoothens the weight to an average value.

Brush Settings Panel - Blur brush

Blurs the weight.

Brush Settings Panel - Paint brush

Paints the weight with the current value.

Brush Settings Panel - Smear brush

A smear brush.

Brush settings panel - Cursor Sub panel

Brush settings panel - Falloff Sub panel

Adjust the falloff of the brush.

Curve Presets

A dropdown menu where you can choose predefined falloff curves.

Options Panel

Auto Normalize

Ensure that all bone deforming vertex groups adds up to 1.0 while weight painting.

Context Menus

Brushes context menu

Weight Paint Mode - Brushes Context Menu

Call this menu with right click in the 3D viewport. You need to be in Weight Paint mode with a grease pencil object. With different tools you will get different context menus, but in the sum the content is basically the same.

In Weight Paint mode you will call a context menu with the sliders from the Brush settings.