Maniphest T67318

Selecting objects through the camera with a background - does not work
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Auke Huys (gestoryscht)
Jul 20 2019, 1:57 PM
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  • BF Blender
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Auke Huys (gestoryscht)
ronan ducluzeau (zeauro)

Description

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.17134 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 430.86

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.80 (sub 74), branch: master, commit date: 2019-07-18 14:52, hash: rB38d4483c6a51
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Short description of error
When you apply a background image to a camera and set it to 'Front', you are unable to select objects by watching through the camera.
When you set it back to 'Back', the selection works.

This may not be a 2.80 bug, but this feels kind of wrong and not as intended.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Add an object
Add a camera
Go to the properties and add a background image of your choice and set it to Depth -> Front.
Select the object by seeing through the camera - does not works. The camera get's selected.
Set it to 'Back' and it works.

You can select the objects, but just after you clicked them twice.

Comment
I can see why this happens, but it shouldn't be like that. It's a background and has nothing to do with the scene itself. It should be purely visual.

Event Timeline

Auke Huys (gestoryscht) created this task.Jul 20 2019, 1:57 PM
Auke Huys (gestoryscht) updated the task description.Jul 20 2019, 2:02 PM
ronan ducluzeau (zeauro) added a subscriber: ronan ducluzeau (zeauro).EditedJul 20 2019, 3:50 PM

It is a background image but it is also a moveable object of scene. Its position can be animated.
As an object, it follows global rules about selection.
This is not a bugreport but a demand to create an exception.

Currently, nothing prevents a user to specify that exception.
User can still disable ability to select empties into dedicated popover of 3DView or specifically this object by disabling its selection via Outliner.

Bugtracker is about behavior changes.
If situation looks weird but always worked as is, please do a feature request into User Feedback section of devtalk.blender.org website.

Auke Huys (gestoryscht) updated the task description.Jul 20 2019, 3:50 PM
Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) closed this task as a duplicate of T66489: Camera Background Image interferes with object selection.Jul 20 2019, 3:54 PM