Grease Pencil/Edit Mode/Point – can I show points before selection?

[Kevin Mather]

[Using 5.1] When I select a GP stroke, tab into Edit mode, and select “Point” mode, (with nothing selected) I see only thin gray lines. No indication where the points are. If I “select all”, then I can see them, and I can attempt to select/deselect the points I want to affect.

This seems rather awkward. Is there some way to make the point locations always visible in Edit:Point mode, similar to editing geometry? I could not find any obvious preference or option.

Thanks.

[Grady Pruitt]

For meshes, when you go to edit mode, the default is vertices, but you can switch to edges and faces. For grease pencil, it’s similar, but the default, I think, is strokes. So you want to switch to points. Next to where it says Edit Mode, the 3 little boxes that when you hover over them say Points, Strokes, and Segments. (just like in meshes., points hotkey is 1, strokes is 2, segments 3). Once you switch to points, you should be able to edit them.

[Martin Bergwerf]

HI @techworker1 ,

Yes, that annoys me as well. If there is a way, I haven’t been able to find it. Should be an Option, like with Curves, the default is to show only the Handles of Selected Control Points, but at least you can easily change that there. Let’s put in a feature request (or upvote it, if it exists already). For now, Circle Select helps me, but it isn’t ideal.

[Grady Pruitt]

[Martin Bergwerf]

Hi Grady @gradyp ,

Yes, I know, but it only shows the points that are Selected:

Oh wait, I stand corrected; the unselected Vertices are visible, as soon as you have at least 1 Vertex Selected, just very hard to see in many cases:

[Grady Pruitt]

Correct 😀 once you have at least 1 vert of a given stroke selected, you can see all others. If you need a different one selected, you can select that one by usual methods (and deselected unwanted ones by usual methods 😀 )

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