Text Texture op v5 dev

[marioepsley]

Potential bug with the TextTexture op and sidebar text input area.
When you return the lineheights change, isn't smooth.
https://dev.cables.gl/edit/AL2o7J

Screen.Recording.2023-10-19.at.11.01.00.mov

if you write a big string in the sidebar say

'here we
go to check
the padding
and bits
all together'

then adjust the padding x, you'll notice things are getting squished.

I also find the padding y top and padding y bottom more often than not greyed out.
I guess these padding should just provide more space around the edges?

not sure why but it doesn't seem to reading the manual texture width and height in this comp

[marioepsley]

I made this comp for you to better illustrate some of the bugs I've found with the text texture op, hope it helps.
https://cables.gl/edit/WJYQKK

[marioepsley]

Just found something else, but the texttexture v5 doesn't seem to work nicely with the repeat op as shown here https://dev.cables.gl/edit/J9z9BM

If you disconnect the string it works, repeats "cables" 5 times. With a string array it does something funny.
Also the left alignment doesn't work but think i've mentioned it above.

[marioepsley]

One more bug where the text texture op doesn't seem to work when iterated, only the first word shows. example here
https://dev.cables.gl/edit/pEX3WO

[pandrr]

i made a new version (v6). many problems should be solved with that.

1. fixed
2. squish does not paggen to me
3. paddingy now should

• yes, does not work with repeat or iterator ops for now

[pandrr]

great example patch btw, thanks

[marioepsley]

Awesome, some great fixes here, the baseline fix was hands down the most important, really happy about that :). When I get a chance I'll tweak the comp to compile all the remaining issues for you. Thank you

[marioepsley]

I tweaked the comp for you https://dev.cables.gl/edit/SQSN62
I'd say the first one is the most important.
Thank you for fixing these bugs.

[pandrr]

1. should not fit over eath other, you have to multipluy the distance by 3, as you did with the font size. then the chars have the same size:

[pandrr]

2. fixed
3. fixed for "bottom", top was good i think?

[pandrr]

4. "line height add"means this is added to each line to the bottom. add same value to paddingY top and it should be what you want

[pandrr]

5. fixed
6. yes, bug...
7. fixed

[pandrr]

thanks again for great debugging patch! <3

[marioepsley]

Ahh thats alright, thanks for this, bit of shame when you set the size of the text texture and tweak the padding and stuff the size changes, say you just want to work in square this becomes a little fiddly but not the end of the world. certainly usable.

[pandrr]

it is a pain, but i dont have a solution to this because it must be so flexible

[marioepsley]

I completely understand, the flexibility is key ultimately

[marioepsley]

assuming it's not possible to iterate the meshes https://dev.cables.gl/edit/pEX3WO, then I think we can mark this as done, I can't wait to get this moved onto the live cables. For whatever reason the patch I want to use it on takes an incredibly long time to load on dev.

[pandrr]

then it will load long on live too later. please invite me ill have a look