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Grease pencil: can't create initial frame "no available frame for creating stroke"
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 457.30

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.93.0 Alpha, branch: master, commit date: 2021-03-15 19:47, hash: rBbe51d671b500

Short description of error
In my file I can't create frames in newly created grease pencil objects.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Open attached .blend
Try to draw a stroke in the selected GP object and layer.
The message "no available frame for creating stroke" shows up
(pressing 'i' in the grease pencil timeline to create a frame seems to have no effect, no frame is created)

gp_no_frame_bug2.blend996 KBDownload

Event Timeline

Tomasz Kaye (bitbutter) created this task.Mar 16 2021, 11:51 AM
Tomasz Kaye (bitbutter) added a project: Grease Pencil.
Antonio Vazquez (antoniov) closed this task as Archived.Mar 16 2021, 11:59 AM
Antonio Vazquez (antoniov) added a subscriber: Antonio Vazquez (antoniov).

This a recent change in the logic of drawing. Now it is using autokey button.

Look at the wiki: https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.93/Grease_Pencil
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6874739/video/519554125

Tomasz Kaye (bitbutter) added a comment.Mar 16 2021, 12:28 PM

Ah! thanks. I had seen this announcement but i overlooked it just now because I didn't have the timeline editor open.

Antonio Vazquez (antoniov) added a comment.Mar 16 2021, 12:30 PM

Also, I have seen your example file has a very small thickness and an extreme zoom in. Try to zoom out and increase the thickness and you will get results.

Vyacheslav (hitrpr) added a subscriber: Vyacheslav (hitrpr).Mar 17 2021, 6:54 AM

Encountered the same.
@Antonio Vazquez (antoniov)
Okay, it work so, but!
If I use GP for technical purposes (Bsurface retopology) it will be annoying to have different strokes on different frames.
Also, I set autokeying, Now i have few keys but do not see em.

On Vimeo I see how keys appears, but they don`t appear for me…
Bug? Should I report?

Tomasz Kaye (bitbutter) added a comment.Mar 17 2021, 7:34 AM

try opening a dope sheet editor with the grease pencil option selected. your keys should show up there.

Vyacheslav (hitrpr) added a comment.Mar 17 2021, 7:55 AM

@Tomasz Kaye (bitbutter) already done, no result…

Tomasz Kaye (bitbutter) added a comment.Mar 17 2021, 9:11 AM

the dope sheet editor's mode selected needs to be changed to 'Grease Pencil' https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/dope_sheet/grease_pencil.html

Vyacheslav (hitrpr) added a comment.Mar 17 2021, 10:16 AM
In T86626#1131030, @Tomasz Kaye (bitbutter) wrote:

the dope sheet editor's mode selected needs to be changed to 'Grease Pencil' https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/dope_sheet/grease_pencil.html

Oh! Now I see, thanks for explanation and patiency!