I have the literal opposite problem. My annotations don't show up at all, and I don't know why. Edit: I had to enable the Annotations in the overlay menu. Easy fix!
Thank you so much! I was going nuts trying to figure out why my annotations kept disappearing. Turns out I accidentally hit 'play animation' and that caused it to create a new annotation keyframe. Thanks to this video I now know a lot more more about how to use this tool.
Hey great tutorial! I really had no idea if there was a way to prevent the annotation from disappearing every new frame. Couldn't find the solution on the Blender manual, so this was exactly what I needed. Thanks!
You haven't talked about editing of the existing annotations. (Say you want to scale everything up?) I was using them as construction lines, yet after bringing in a google map, it seems I was off by about 35%. So I scaled up my model, but my annotations need scaled. I'd hate to erase them and redraw. Just trying to model my house for future remodeling previews. :-) (Amazing what being stuck inside all the time can make one do!)
Great video! 2 questions: 1. Once I've written various text notes on the same pencil layer, can I grab select portions of my writing and move it on x/y 2. Can I hand draw animations going frame by frame but seeing the previous frame with low opacity so I can trace over it for the next frame?
1. It would benefit you to use the grease pencil instead. Use shift+A to add a grease pencil. With the grease pencil selected in the world outliner, switch from "Object mode" to "Draw mode." Numpad 3 to switch views so you're drawing in 2D. Once the drawing is complete, switch to object mode and move the grease pencil freely in 3D space along whatever axis. 2. Go into the grease pencil in object mode. Make a material in the materials pane in the bottom right. Select the modifiers, go to "Add Grease Pencil Modifier" and select Opacity. For animation, with the grease pencil selected, use the 2D animation tab at the top, or add one if it is unavailable. Now here is the fun part, while the grease pencil is directly in front of your camera, select the grease pencil, hold shift and select the camera so it is the active object, hit "P" and parent the grease pencil to the camera. Now all of your notes will rest directly in front of the camera no matter what. There's all sorts of reasons this is useful.
I'd like to be able to have annotation on a single frame. For example, I have annotation describing something on a single frame, but then the next frame I don't want it there at all or want something else entirely. How ?
Blender really be like "Here's five million tools. Four of them actually do something useful, and all the rest are garbage that you will spend an hour trying to undo. Think you can guess where annotations belong?"
re 0:52, right-clicking to end a polygon seems to be buggy in 2.81a. sometimes the last element is erased, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes previous polygons are erased. not a showstopper, but could erase your work.
Hi! Thanks for your video but I have a question..I want to use annotation and it doesn't do anything. I don't see the lines I'm drawing NOTHING T-T help! I've closed and opened the program so many times.. nothing. Help!
When you want to make notes, for example because you work in a team. Or to make notes for yourself. I use it a lot when doing real world training sessions.
When we annotate in an animated scene, how can we edit the annotations per frame. I see they are added per frame, but i dont see any key-frames. Its seems the annotations is a simplified grease pencil object.
When i use annotation it simplifies the stroke so much that i can hardly tell what it is . Yours does not seem to do that it still keeps the sharp edges, how to I turn of this smooth stroke option with the annotation tool ??
Hello nice tutorial, very intresting, i find annotation very usefull, it is possible to convert it to a grease pencil stroke? I want to animate the growing of the annotation as it is was draw during time
That makes sense because the annotation tool internally uses the grease pencil system but it seems like such a conversion is not possible right now (unless we missed something)...
Man, I was having the same problem, but one of the comments below mentions that you have to left-click and HOLD/DRAG the mouse button down to get the different options like Annotate Eraser, etc. Any of the icons in the Tool Bar that have a tiny little triangle in the bottom right of the box are tools that have more options if you LMB and HOLD/DRAG! This really drove me nuts and it's not mentioned in the documentation about the particular tool, but in the section about the Tool Bar in general. ( docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.80/interface/tool_system.html#ui-region-toolbar ) It reads: "The Toolbar shows buttons for each tool. For tool buttons which have an small triangle in bottom right corner will reveal a pop-up menu when you LMB drag so that you can select other tools of the same group."
Not kidding I'm googling now 10 minutes how to remove an annotation. The whole tool seems broken, no options like erase or polygon. fyi I brute forced it, it's CTRL + left mouse, and you will see the eraser not before you click. WTH Blender.
I am having the same issue. Something is not right. Thanks for the CTRL+left mouse tip! However, I don't think the tool options are opening for me like they should. I vaguely recall having this feature work better on a 2.8 beta version.
Ok, I think I figured this out. I just switched preferences from LMB-to-select, to RMB, and then back to LMB. Now, click and HOLD-drag the LMB on a tool... this will open the options. I don't know if toggling preferences is needed, but I am pretty sure that the click-hold-drag thing did not work before toggling preferences.
@@duaneanderson8641 Yep it's weird they implemented this non-conventional button-hold action. Maybe they had to do this because the remaining 4 users of a long forgotten 3D software would have complained.
@@duaneanderson8641 Thank you for pointing this out.. It was driving me nuts that I couldn't figure out how to show those options and just delete my annotations.
Do you know if there's a way for the Line tool to have a Snap effect by the degrees of angle? Like, I want the line to be at 90 degrees. Can I do that?
I saw many videos today and just came back to this one to tell you about the Addon Construction-Lines. It solved my problems and I think, it will solve yours too. th-cam.com/video/tUU5D13nBJs/w-d-xo.html
Select the eraser. Press the left mouse button and hold it. As long as you hold the left mouse button, you can scroll your mouse wheel to change the eraser radius^^
@@captainpawpawchannel There are also shortcuts for faster drawing and erasing: D + LeftMouseButton = Drawing D + Shift + LeftMouseButton = Smooth Drawing D + RightMouseButton = Erasing D+ RightMouseButton + MouseScrolling = Changing the Eraser Radius 😁
Surely you are here to clean the mess you've done so hold on the annotate icon for 3 seconds and click annotate eraser
thank you so much, this really helped :D
God bless you
OMG THANK U
you saved me from an F on my art final, thank you!
I have the literal opposite problem. My annotations don't show up at all, and I don't know why.
Edit: I had to enable the Annotations in the overlay menu. Easy fix!
Super cool, to the point guide.
Very interesting... I can see a lot of use with the Annotate Tool... Thanks for sharing...
This is an awesome Blender tutorial right here I love it.😃👍
Normal person: learning something useful.
Me: drawing on cameras, empties, lights, texts, nurbs, metaballs, speakers and force fields...
Maybe the D in B3D is for "draw" 🤔
Thank you so much! I was going nuts trying to figure out why my annotations kept disappearing. Turns out I accidentally hit 'play animation' and that caused it to create a new annotation keyframe. Thanks to this video I now know a lot more more about how to use this tool.
Hey great tutorial! I really had no idea if there was a way to prevent the annotation from disappearing every new frame. Couldn't find the solution on the Blender manual, so this was exactly what I needed. Thanks!
Wow simple and amazing ........ thanks .......
Most welcome 😊
Danke shoen!
Gern gescheh'n 😃
That's really great information, thanks a lot.....
Glad it was helpful!
You haven't talked about editing of the existing annotations. (Say you want to scale everything up?) I was using them as construction lines, yet after bringing in a google map, it seems I was off by about 35%. So I scaled up my model, but my annotations need scaled. I'd hate to erase them and redraw. Just trying to model my house for future remodeling previews. :-) (Amazing what being stuck inside all the time can make one do!)
Did you ever get an answer for this??
Great video! 2 questions:
1. Once I've written various text notes on the same pencil layer, can I grab select portions of my writing and move it on x/y
2. Can I hand draw animations going frame by frame but seeing the previous frame with low opacity so I can trace over it for the next frame?
1. It would benefit you to use the grease pencil instead. Use shift+A to add a grease pencil. With the grease pencil selected in the world outliner, switch from "Object mode" to "Draw mode." Numpad 3 to switch views so you're drawing in 2D. Once the drawing is complete, switch to object mode and move the grease pencil freely in 3D space along whatever axis.
2. Go into the grease pencil in object mode. Make a material in the materials pane in the bottom right. Select the modifiers, go to "Add Grease Pencil Modifier" and select Opacity.
For animation, with the grease pencil selected, use the 2D animation tab at the top, or add one if it is unavailable. Now here is the fun part, while the grease pencil is directly in front of your camera, select the grease pencil, hold shift and select the camera so it is the active object, hit "P" and parent the grease pencil to the camera. Now all of your notes will rest directly in front of the camera no matter what. There's all sorts of reasons this is useful.
Nice video simple and easy
Thanks you, very usefull for me :)
Thank you 🧡
You’re welcome 😊
Thanks
thank you :D
how can i remove the x-ray?
Why are grease pencil and the annotate tool even separated into different tools? Why not just bring back the lock frame option and develop it further?
Is that really your question, or just a joke?^^
Thanks :)
Thank you for your vidéo,
I needed this video to tell me that there is annotation eraser. yeah i'm pretty sad about it too );
thanks!
I'd like to be able to have annotation on a single frame.
For example, I have annotation describing something on a single frame, but then the next frame I don't want it there at all or want something else entirely.
How ?
Muchas gracias
Blender really be like "Here's five million tools. Four of them actually do something useful, and all the rest are garbage that you will spend an hour trying to undo. Think you can guess where annotations belong?"
re 0:52, right-clicking to end a polygon seems to be buggy in 2.81a. sometimes the last element is erased, sometimes it isn't, and sometimes previous polygons are erased. not a showstopper, but could erase your work.
Deserves more likes. I think if more users knew what "Annotate" meant ('cuz people are lunkheads) they'd be referencing this nice video.
Hi!
Thanks for your video but I have a question..I want to use annotation and it doesn't do anything. I don't see the lines I'm drawing NOTHING T-T help! I've closed and opened the program so many times.. nothing. Help!
In the Viewport Overlays settings, select "Annotations". This should be enabled in never versions of Blender though.
is it possible to render out the annotation with the mesh?
Thanks U 👍👍👍 bro
What is the use of annotation? When should I use this?
When you want to make notes, for example because you work in a team. Or to make notes for yourself. I use it a lot when doing real world training sessions.
Bsurfaces when retopologizing.
When we annotate in an animated scene, how can we edit the annotations per frame. I see they are added per frame, but i dont see any key-frames. Its seems the annotations is a simplified grease pencil object.
I really miss being able to edit them. BUt i would probably need to use grease pencil then
Yes they are simplified grease pencil objects so in an animated scene you are probably better off using grease pencil for annotations
Hello, thanks for the video btw the lines created by ruler and annotation line can be convert to mesh?
I ask myself the same thing
When i use annotation it simplifies the stroke so much that i can hardly tell what it is . Yours does not seem to do that it still keeps the sharp edges, how to I turn of this smooth stroke option with the annotation tool ??
Hello nice tutorial, very intresting, i find annotation very usefull, it is possible to convert it to a grease pencil stroke?
I want to animate the growing of the annotation as it is was draw during time
That makes sense because the annotation tool internally uses the grease pencil system but it seems like such a conversion is not possible right now (unless we missed something)...
is there a way to watch in the timeline where we put a drawing? I mean like keyframes in animation
Hey I cant find the eraser tool, I cant select other options from the annotation tool. Also could not fin this in the manual, could anyone help?
Man, I was having the same problem, but one of the comments below mentions that you have to left-click and HOLD/DRAG the mouse button down to get the different options like Annotate Eraser, etc. Any of the icons in the Tool Bar that have a tiny little triangle in the bottom right of the box are tools that have more options if you LMB and HOLD/DRAG! This really drove me nuts and it's not mentioned in the documentation about the particular tool, but in the section about the Tool Bar in general. ( docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.80/interface/tool_system.html#ui-region-toolbar ) It reads:
"The Toolbar shows buttons for each tool. For tool buttons which have an small triangle in bottom right corner will reveal a pop-up menu when you LMB drag so that you can select other tools of the same group."
@@jasonbartlett1357 wow okay, thanks
Cool, Now i can use annotate while teaching blender to my friends and not hover my mouse around the object XD
That's great!
how to select other anotate modes?
Not kidding I'm googling now 10 minutes how to remove an annotation. The whole tool seems broken, no options like erase or polygon.
fyi I brute forced it, it's CTRL + left mouse, and you will see the eraser not before you click. WTH Blender.
lol same, thanks man accidentally drew a blue line on my model hahaha
I am having the same issue. Something is not right. Thanks for the CTRL+left mouse tip! However, I don't think the tool options are opening for me like they should. I vaguely recall having this feature work better on a 2.8 beta version.
Ok, I think I figured this out. I just switched preferences from LMB-to-select, to RMB, and then back to LMB. Now, click and HOLD-drag the LMB on a tool... this will open the options. I don't know if toggling preferences is needed, but I am pretty sure that the click-hold-drag thing did not work before toggling preferences.
@@duaneanderson8641 Yep it's weird they implemented this non-conventional button-hold action. Maybe they had to do this because the remaining 4 users of a long forgotten 3D software would have complained.
@@duaneanderson8641 Thank you for pointing this out.. It was driving me nuts that I couldn't figure out how to show those options and just delete my annotations.
is there a way to draw a circle ??
Do you know if there's a way for the Line tool to have a Snap effect by the degrees of angle? Like, I want the line to be at 90 degrees. Can I do that?
I saw many videos today and just came back to this one to tell you about the Addon Construction-Lines. It solved my problems and I think, it will solve yours too. th-cam.com/video/tUU5D13nBJs/w-d-xo.html
2023 and its impossible to draw a perfectly vertical line
Snapping would be a good addition to the drawing tool indeed 👍🏻
Hello, thanks for the tutorial, do you know if there's a way to increase the size of the eraser? I can't find...
Select the eraser. Press the left mouse button and hold it. As long as you hold the left mouse button, you can scroll your mouse wheel to change the eraser radius^^
@@ronsn8071 oh ok thanks I'm going to check that ;)
@@captainpawpawchannel There are also shortcuts for faster drawing and erasing:
D + LeftMouseButton = Drawing
D + Shift + LeftMouseButton = Smooth Drawing
D + RightMouseButton = Erasing
D+ RightMouseButton + MouseScrolling = Changing the Eraser Radius
😁
@@ronsn8071 ok, thanks, noted ;)
@@captainpawpawchannel Another Hint: You can also note your notes with the Annotation Tool!
// Joke! 🙂
how to deactivate annotate ?
you mean make it invisible? There's an eye icon for that in the Tools menu.
2:53
d i c k n e s s
i just wanna delete that shit
thanks