Structure#

Grease Pencil object has three main basic components: points, edit lines and strokes.

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Example of Grease Pencil structure.#

Points#

The main element used in editing Grease Pencil objects are points. Points represent a single point in 3D space.

Each point stores all the properties that define the final appearance of the strokes as its ___location, thickness, alpha, weight and UV rotation for textures.

Note

Point (Grease Pencil) and Vertex (meshes) are equivalent names.

Edit Lines#

Points are always connected by a straight line, which you see when you are editing in Edit Mode or when you look at a stroke in wireframe view. They are invisible on the rendered image and are used to construct the final stroke.

Strokes#

The stroke is the rendered image of the points and edit lines, using a particular Grease Pencil material. (Grease Pencil materials are linked at stroke level.)