Deep Paint EN

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Deep Paint is the addon plugin for Blender 3D
It is user friendly tool to create 3D stylized illustrations.
 Grab from here! 

Please report any bugs from DP Report

End User License Agreement

  Updates

Please go to your library and access the DP product page if you purchased from Gumroad to update versions https://app.gumroad.com/library

If you see some issues such as missing shortcuts or brush, most of time factory reset from preference will fix FYI

 　Installation

Please install the addon file without extracting the zip file.
If you see “DEEP” in N panel by hitting “n”, you are good to go.
(Please restart Blender if there’s any issues)

 　Tutorials

 　Shortcut

There’s shortcut for some DP command

• Custom Grease Pencil window “s”
• DP modifier “ctrl + D”
• GP to Mesh “E”

You can change mapping from Addon Preference if you need

 　Custom Grease Pencil

with key “S” to bring up GP popup window

  DP Report

Please describe your report about Deep Paint Blender Addon
If you see some issues such as missing shortcuts or brush, most of time factory reset from preference will fix FYI

GP to Mesh

　Add Blank

Bring up pie menu for “GP to Mesh” with shortcut key E in object mode. (If “E” doesn’t work please go to https://gakutada.com/dp-en/#Shortcut and then change it to other key)
Add new Grease Pencil Object from “Add Blank”

　GP to Line Mesh

Convert GP object to mesh from “GP to Line Mesh” in pie menu

　GP to Fill Mesh

Converts GP object to fill mesh from “GP to Fill Mesh” in pie menu

　GP to Mesh Line

Converts GP object to mesh line from “GP to Mesh Line” in pie menu

　GP to Curve Mesh

Converts GP object to curve with mesh from “GP to Curve Mesh” in pie menu

　GP to Curve

Converts GP object to curve from “GP to Curve” in pie menu

　GP to Line & Fill

Converts GP object to line and fill mesh from “GP to Line & Fill” in pie menu

　GP to Mesh menu

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＜Deep Paint＞Main Menu

　Apply All Transform

Applies All Transform to moved object

• Position
• Rotation
• Scale

will reset.

　Visual Geometry to Mesh

Applies Visual Geometry to Mesh.(no more modifier)

　Join

Joins the object to one mesh to last selected object.

　Separate by Loose Parts

Separates joined objects to each.

　Link Active Material to Selected

Links material to last selected object’s material.

　Copy Modifiers to Selected

Copies all modifier to last selected object.

　Center Origin

Applies to origin to center of selected object/edge/vertex/face

　Randomize

Randomize the selected objects by information box on left bottom

　Proportional Edit

Proportional editing the shapes

　Transform Pivot Point

　Proportional Editing

　Wireframe

Displays wireframe in object mode. you can also change the opacity from the slider

　Show Wireframe

Displays only for selected object

　Show Face

Shows the face normal orientation.

　Flip

Flips the normal for selected object

　Split Normals Data

adds the custom normal

　DPM

Applies DPM (Deep Paint Material)

You can duplicate and change name, also with “x” button to delete material

　Outline

Applies outline (Modifier and Material)

You can change the thickness and noise strength and noise size from here

this one applies noise only for outline and “x” button to delete outline

If you want to change the color of outline, please go to material and change it here

　Vertex Paint

Changes to Vertex Paint mode to paint vertex color, which plugged to DPM.
With Shift and scrub, you can blur the Vertex color. Ctrl to paint secondary color.
with brush icon to fill the color.

　Vertex Color Preset

Fill vertex color to Black and White.

　Color

Brings up color wheel

　Set Vertex Color

Fills the selected color to object with the selected color

　Color Attribute Toggle

Brings up the color palette

　Palette Browser

you can save color into your color palette

+ to add color

  Texture

　Texture Paint

Changes Texture Paint mode

　Add Tex

With plus button to create texture map and paint. It will add DPMtex material if you have no material assigned but it will add node only if you already assigned material.

Shift + LMB to blur and Shift+Ctrl+LMB to smudge

　Save

Saves texture you painted.

　Texture Attribute Toggle

Brings texture color wheel and brings slot to add more texture with plus button.

　Smart UV

If you have no UV, you can add automatic smart UV

　Project View

You can add UV in projection view from camera

　Airbrush

Applies the air bush and paint. You have same icon in RMB popup window to select brushes.

　Speckles

Applies speckles brush to paint.

　Edge

Applies edge brush to paint.

　Strake

Applies strake brush to paint.

　Pastel

Applies pastel brush to paint.

　Trake

Applies trake brush to paint.

　Rake

Applies rake brush to paint.

　Watercolor

Applies watercolor brush to paint.

　Sharpdraw

Applies sharp brush to paint.

Modifier

　Subdivide

Applies the modifier without history in modifier section.

　Decimate

Decimates the mesh.

　Quadify

Adds the mesh in quad (xyz) direction.

　Triangulation

Applies triangle mesh to object

　Remesh

Remesh the object, you can change the size with the number.

　Solidify

Applies solidify.

　Displace

Applies displacement to mesh.

　Smooth

applies smooth modifier

　Wireframe

Applies wireframe modifier

　Screw

Screws the geo, only for Z axis

Material

　DPM2

Applies DPM2,
with DPM2, you can add more lights and effects color to surface

　Leaf Outline

Applies the outline to single mesh edge such as leaf.
Left value is for “thickness”, middle for “noise strength”, right for “noise amplitude”

　Noise Mix

Brings in Noise Texture mix node into your material, you can add another vertex color as a mask to paint noise too.

　Gradient World

Brings in world space gradient to material to have more detailed fog to your object

　Edge Alpha

Brings in alpha to edge to the object

　Duplicate

Duplicate material with renaming

　Clear Material

Clears material for the selected objects

　Shadow Only

Applies shadow matte material to selected object. (only renders the shadow)

Utility

　Sky Paint

Brings in sky paint object(vertex mix). By default it is locked so that you don’t accidentally select sky while working. you can unlock from the button.

　Render Cam

Brings in Camera Rig

Camera Path

You can create your own path curve and attach like this

　Tree Gen

Scatter instance from TreeGEN.
You can change density and size with min&max, randomize the rotation. Also you can scatter collection objects too.

Density tweak with vertex group

You can create vertex group by weight paint tool to control.

Normal direction scatter

You can slide normal value to align the rotation based on ground normal direction

頂点グループでスケール調整

Also you can control size with another vertex point group

Duplicate instance copy

With this Plus button, you can duplicate tree GEN object to replace new instance copy

Animation

You can apply ambient motion to instance

Mesh Apply

You can apply mesh to instance with “Mesh Apply” button

　Vine Gen

Same way as Tree GEN, you can also create instance to curve

　Spin

You can copy in z Axis with this Spin button

　Braid

You can generate braid object from curve

　Add World

With Add World button you can make the world color. Default is white value 1.
You can add ambient light with World Light button.
with Volume button to add volume fog.

Turn the ambient occlusion on.
Add contrast and Exposure.

　Curves

Change curve to add grading to render

　Presets

There’s 3 presets, “1920×1080”, “1080×1920”, “1500×1500” for render resolution, it forces to MOV file format.