StoryLiner V1.2 for Blender 4.3
— Released on 15th, January, 2025 —
StoryLiner V1.2 just got released on January, 13th. See what’s new here: Exciting new features of StoryLiner V1.2.
- For Blender 3.6 to 4.2, this package is available for all editions in your product page on Blender Market.
- For Blender 4.3, things are a pretty different though, because of the introduction of Grease Pencil 3. StoryLiner is just starting to run in a stable way on it. I know it comes late, but converting all the features of StoryLiner to this new architecture is a huuuuge work and it took me a huuuuuuuge amount of efforts and time.
So at the moment the version for Blender 4.3 is still emerging and has to be use with some caution.
Please report all the issues you faced either on the support page or directly in the Discord, in the support channel.
WkFX_StoryLiner_StudioEd_V1-2-321_forBlender4.3.zip
(shared on 2025/01/15)
The file is available for all editions in your StoryLiner product page on Blender Market.
The challenging part in the support for Blender 4.3 is to recreate the layers and groups template list with Python components from the Blender API that are not supposed to support item trees. The whole interaction had to be recreated from scratch, and the operators adapted to be used in a context where the manipulated grease pencil object may not be the active one.
Supported:
- Layer groups can be collapsed. BUT: Their collapse state is not preserved in 4.3. It is preserved and correctly restored in Blender 4.4 thanks to the introduction of a is_collapsed property. (see Blender 4.4 Release Notes: Grease Pencil)
Not yet supported:
- Layer group colors are not supported due to a missing property. They are correctly supported in Blender 4.4 thanks to the introduction of a color_tag property. (see Blender 4.4 Release Notes: Grease Pencil)
- When Undo is done, the template list is flushed. No solution for this at the moment. Press the Refresh Layer Tree button below the layers template list.
- Grease Pencil grid is now a viewport overlay property. Custom color for grid will then come back later
Will not be supported:
- The drag and drop of items (layers or groups) from a place to another in the tree view is a UI behavior that currently do not exists in the Template Lists. It is not possible to recreate a similar behavior with the current API.
As a turnaround, to get a similar result, 2 buttons were introduced to “cut” and “paste” a sub-part of the tree.