This Blender add-on adds groups functionality (and more things❗ 🎉) to Blender’s Grease Pencil! It’s meant to make working with the Grease Pencil a more pleasant (and organized!) experience and to perform redundant tasks more quickly. Moreover, it also provides some new little features that make drawing with Grease Pencil more alike to drawing with other graphic softwares.

I made (and I’m making!) this addon for my daily use to simplify my life a bit, and I’m continously adding every improvement and idea I can think of, so its ensured to have the maximum quality possible! If you have an idea or something that you think will be cool to be implemented, I’m open to listen!

Installation 💻

1. Download the .zip file with the addon and place it wherever you like.
2. In Blender, go to Edit → Preferences. Once there, press the Add-ons tab and press Install button on the top-right corner:

1. Select the .zip file.
2. Once installed, search for “Grease Pencil Groups” in the search bar, and enable the addon.

Setup 🛠

The add-on pannel will appear in the Properties panel, along with the original layer panel.

To start using it, simply click the Initialize button to add the current layers in the active Grease Pencil:

<aside> 💡 Note: adding a layer outside the Layers & Group panel will make the group system to be outdated. If so, don’t worry, a button will appear to refresh changes.

I personally suggest that if you preffer to use the add-on panel instead of the old layer panel, just drag it on top (or whereever you like), so you don’t miss it:

📢 I could have overriden Blender’s default layer panel, but I personally don’t like to get rid of original UI elements, in case some users would like to still use the native layer panel.

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Interface 🖥️