Perfect Perspective Next (v2.0)

Updated 7/6/2025

A perspective toolkit for Blender Grease Pencil! Helps you generate perspective grids and adds snapping to help you draw perfectly lined up strokes.

This version of the Perfect Perspective Add-On for Blender with support for newer blender versions. It should also be backward compatible to at least Blender 3.6

Questions? Concerns? Requests? Please reach out!

Key Features:

·      Create Personalized Perspective Grids

·      Assist tools to guide you to your Vanishing Points

·      A built-in snapping tool!

Notable additions in 2.0:

·      Snapping! Snap your strokes to the associated vanishing points

·      Five Point Perspective Support

·      Other minor tweaks

Other Changes:

·      There has been a full rewrite of the code to make future edits easier

·      We’ve switched to GPU drawing instead of grease pencil objects

o   This should perform a bit better with less objects to manage

o   We will re-add the ability to generate grids as grease pencil objects in the near future as an intentional feature

·      Archiving has been removed. This may be re-added in the future.

·      A VP Locking feature to prevent accidental selection

·      Misc GUI improvements

What’s Next:

·      Four Point Perspective (Being researched!)

·      Ability to have multiple grids

·      Ability to have auxiliary vanishing points

·      Re-introduction of grids as grease pencil objects

 Known Issues:

·    When using Five Point Perspective Snapping, try to follow the curve. Otherwise, you might end up with a curve that only has a couple points. (This is related to how blender determines how many points a stroke will have. A workaround is being developed.) 

What do these settings mean             

GRID SETTINGS

·      Type: Your Perspective Type (One-Two-Three- or Five-Point Perspective)

·      VP Creation: Vanishing point behavior

o   Clicky: Allows you to drag / drop VPs

o   Manual: Manually input VP coordinates. Will override current VP Location.

§  Randomize: When Manual, randomize will set random coordinates (-5 to 5) for vanishing points on grid generation

o   Lock: Locks VPs so they are not unintentionally selectable

·      Grid Lines: How many lines are created for the grid. May affect clarity

·      Line Width: How thick the lines are for the grid/assists. May affect clarity

·      Radius: Grid radius for one and five-point-perspective

·      Depth Factor: Perspective Depth Factor

o   X: Depth Factor relationship between vp0 and vp1/vp2

o   Y: Depth Factor relationship between vp0 and vp3

o   Closer to 0: Grid lines terminate closer to the observation point (vp0)

o   Closer to 1: Grid lines terminate closer to the vanishing points

·      Grid/Assist Color Pickers: Color/Alpha used for grid/assists. Adjust for clarity

·      Ceiling: Mirrors Two Point Perspective grid based on vp0

·      Verticals: Draws verticals/inner grids for Two and Three-Point Perspective

·      (re)Draw Grid: Draws a grid based on the above settings.

o   Trash Bin: Remove the existing grid

Assist Settings

·      Start Assists: Create guidelines to the vanishing points while you draw

o   Grid Icon: If toggled, this will auto-generate/update a grid if one doesn’t exist on assist start

o   Esc to cancel, or re-click the button. Will also cancel if certain options are changed.

·      Rulers: Purely horizontal/vertical guides

o   Vertical: Vertical visual indicator

o   Horizontal: Horizontal visual indicator

Snap Settings:

·      Snap To:  If assists are running, this will automatically snap your lines to a vanishing point. Horo / Vert are purely horizontal/vertical snapping. 5 point perspective will snap to the curved grid depending on your selection.

Use the A S or ; ' keys to toggle between the different snap targets.

o   Grid Icon: If toggled, this will auto-generate/update a grid if one doesn’t exist

o   Esc to cancel. Will also cancel if certain options are changed.

o   VP List: Beneath Snap To. What are we snapping to

·      From Stroke: Where to snap from when assists are running

o   Front: Snap from where you end the stroke

o   Back: Snap from where you start the stroke