Maniphest T62043

Build modifier for Text object builds characters in the reversed order.
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Assigned To
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb)
Authored By
Jurek (solartistic)
Feb 28 2019, 12:22 PM
Tags
  • BF Blender
  • Modifiers
Subscribers
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton)
dono dono (dono)
Jeroen Bakker (jbakker)
Jurek (solartistic)
Miłosz Kłosowicz (miklobit)
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb)

Description

System Information
Operating system: win10
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

Blender Version
blender-2.80.0-git.dd9cedddae69-windows64

Short description of error
As in the title. Build modifier for Text object goes from the last character to the first.

Converting Text to Curve object or Mesh object makes it work as expected.

Toogling 'reversed' checkbox doesn't help as it reverses the time not the building direction.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

bugreport.blend595 KBDownload

Open the file and play animation

Related Objects

Mentioned In
T63360: Artifacts converting to mesh from text
Mentioned Here
rB375c7dc4caf4: Move 2.82a from beta to release
rBe8dd8c2829f3: Cleanup: silence deprecation warnings of Carbon Finder Favorites items
T60211: Crash when Cycles rendering on Vega 64 (OpenCL)
rBdd9cedddae69: 3D View: only calculate view center when needed

Event Timeline

Jurek (solartistic) created this task.Feb 28 2019, 12:22 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) claimed this task.Feb 28 2019, 1:02 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 50.
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) added a subscriber: Campbell Barton (campbellbarton).Feb 28 2019, 3:37 PM

@Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) found the issue here.

In blender/editors/object/object_add.c:1994 we convert the text object to a curve first, this causes the order in which the geometry indices are build to be reversed.
However, it seems like the current code can convert OB_FONT without any problems so if I remove that conversion, it seems to work fine.

I'm guessing that is is like this for a reason or is this simply something that is not needed anymore and can be removed?

I should also note that there seems to be a mem leak here too when converting to mesh:
Error: Not freed memory blocks: 15, total unfreed memory 0.032776 MB

Jeroen Bakker (jbakker) added a subscriber: Jeroen Bakker (jbakker).EditedMar 20 2019, 10:54 AM

Mem Leak might also be related to T60211

Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) mentioned this in T63360: Artifacts converting to mesh from text.Apr 16 2019, 6:51 PM
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) removed Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) as the assignee of this task.Dec 23 2019, 4:35 PM
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) added a project: Tracker Curfew.
Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) added a subscriber: Sebastian Parborg (zeddb).
Richard Antalik (ISS) edited projects, added Modifiers; removed Tracker Curfew.Jan 24 2020, 7:13 PM
Richard Antalik (ISS) changed the subtype of this task from "Report" to "Known Issue".
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) claimed this task.Jan 30 2020, 3:05 PM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) closed this task as Resolved.Mar 2 2020, 3:43 PM

This one seems to be fixed in master now.

The result is the same for the text and the mesh object.

Miłosz Kłosowicz (miklobit) added a subscriber: Miłosz Kłosowicz (miklobit).May 24 2020, 12:55 AM

Build modifier for Text still works in reversed order.

System Information
Operating system: Linux-4.15.0-20-lowlatency-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid 64 Bits
Graphics card: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile Intel Open Source Technology Center 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.0.0-rc5

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.82 (sub 7), branch: master, commit date: 2020-03-12 05:06, hash: rB375c7dc4caf4
Broken: version: 2.83 (sub 17), branch: master, commit date: 2020-05-22 19:52, hash: rBe8dd8c2829f3

Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) added a comment.May 25 2020, 10:56 AM

The issue reported here was that the build modifier would switch directions when converting a text object into a mesh.
This is not the case anymore so that issue is fixed.

dono dono (dono) added a subscriber: dono dono (dono).Jul 7 2020, 5:33 PM

Hello,

Build modifier for Text still works in reversed order.
I think what is expected here is that, with this build modifier and text, first letter appear, then second letter, then third ... But here is first the last letter...

Thank you!