Switching between viewport shading modes causes models to become invisible if they use vertex colours (Pose mode) #72823

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Fox · 2019-12-31T17:58:33+01:00

Fox commented

2019-12-31 17:58:33 +01:00

System Information
Operating system: Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M OpenGL Engine NVIDIA Corporation 4.1 NVIDIA-10.32.0 355.11.10.10.40.102

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.81 (sub 16), branch: master, commit date: 2019-11-20 14:27, hash: blender/blender@26bd5ebd42

Addon Information
Name: Rigify (0, 6, 0)
Author: Nathan Vegdahl, Lucio Rossi, Ivan Cappiello, Alexander Gavrilov

Short description of error
I'm working with a model that uses vertex colours for its texture. I have to use the Workbench render engine to display them (setting Color to Vertex, unsurprisingly). When I parent a rig to the model it behaves as expected except that switching between viewport modes results in the model becoming invisible in the "rendered" viewport mode. Making changes, saving the file, then restarting Blender causes the model to reappear again (until one switches modes again).

It may be related to the selected object as it's also possible for the bones to become invisible with only the connecting joints visible (resulting in the appearance of a bubble cloud, for want of a better description). That may be intentional though as it seems to be something to do with toggling X-ray:

The bones stay looking like that in wireframe mode regardless of whether X-ray is on or not. Again, that may be how it's supposed to work.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
The mesh in question is generated by this site . It creates a Wavefront OBJ file with vertex colours, something the format doesn't officially support. I then open the file in MeshLab and export it as Stanford PLY, which*does// support vertex colours. I then import that model into Blender.

The model is a bit blocky so I use a Smooth modifier which I then apply (factor 2.0, repeat 3, all other settings default).

Align the model with the face part of the default human rig, parent them with automatic weights.

Enter pose mode:

Switch to solid viewport shading, enable X-ray mode to see the bones. Select one or more.
Switch back to rendered viewport shading.

Here's the file I was working on:
myface.blend

**System Information** Operating system: Darwin-17.7.0-x86_64-i386-64bit 64 Bits Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M OpenGL Engine NVIDIA Corporation 4.1 NVIDIA-10.32.0 355.11.10.10.40.102 **Blender Version** Broken: version: 2.81 (sub 16), branch: master, commit date: 2019-11-20 14:27, hash: `blender/blender@26bd5ebd42` **Addon Information** Name: Rigify (0, 6, 0) Author: Nathan Vegdahl, Lucio Rossi, Ivan Cappiello, Alexander Gavrilov **Short description of error** I'm working with a model that uses vertex colours for its texture. I have to use the Workbench render engine to display them (setting Color to Vertex, unsurprisingly). When I parent a rig to the model it behaves as expected except that switching between viewport modes results in the model becoming invisible in the "rendered" viewport mode. Making changes, saving the file, then restarting Blender causes the model to reappear again (until one switches modes again). It may be related to the selected object as it's also possible for the bones to become invisible with only the connecting joints visible (resulting in the appearance of a bubble cloud, for want of a better description). That may be intentional though as it seems to be something to do with toggling X-ray: ![Screen Shot 2019-12-31 at 16.14.34.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F8253533/Screen_Shot_2019-12-31_at_16.14.34.png) The bones stay looking like that in wireframe mode regardless of whether X-ray is on or not. Again, that may be how it's supposed to work. **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** The mesh in question is generated by [this site ](https:*cvl-demos.cs.nott.ac.uk/vrn/). It creates a Wavefront OBJ file with vertex colours, something the format doesn't officially support. I then open the file in MeshLab and export it as Stanford PLY, which*does// support vertex colours. I then import that model into Blender. The model is a bit blocky so I use a Smooth modifier which I then apply (factor 2.0, repeat 3, all other settings default). Align the model with the face part of the default human rig, parent them with automatic weights. Enter pose mode: ![Screen Shot 2019-12-31 at 16.50.41.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F8253576/Screen_Shot_2019-12-31_at_16.50.41.png) Switch to solid viewport shading, enable X-ray mode to see the bones. Select one or more. Switch back to rendered viewport shading. ![Screen Shot 2019-12-31 at 16.53.21.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F8253582/Screen_Shot_2019-12-31_at_16.53.21.png) Here's the file I was working on: [myface.blend](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F8253585/myface.blend)

Fox commented

2019-12-31 17:58:33 +01:00

Added subscriber: @Flamekebab

Eitan Traurig commented

2020-04-30 17:33:05 +02:00

Added subscriber: @EitanSomething

Eitan Traurig commented

2020-04-30 17:33:05 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Needs User Info'

Eitan Traurig commented

2020-04-30 17:33:05 +02:00

Is this still an issue with 2.83?

Fox commented

2020-05-01 01:57:32 +02:00

As far as I can tell no, it's now fixed! Fantastic!

Eitan Traurig commented

2020-05-01 02:04:56 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs User Info' to: 'Needs Triage'

Eitan Traurig commented

2020-05-01 02:05:56 +02:00

I’m just going through all the bugs from 2.80 to 2.82 to see if they have been inadvertently fix to get a better picture of the number of bugs. Sorry for any inconvenience

Germano Cavalcante commented

2020-05-01 02:26:30 +02:00

Added subscriber: @mano-wii

Germano Cavalcante commented

2020-05-01 02:26:30 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Resolved'

Germano Cavalcante closed this issue

2020-05-01 02:26:30 +02:00

Germano Cavalcante self-assigned this 2020-05-01 02:26:30 +02:00

Germano Cavalcante commented

2020-05-01 02:26:30 +02:00

If I understand correctly, the problem seems to have been fixed.
So closing as resolved.

If I understand correctly, the problem seems to have been fixed. So closing as resolved.

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Switching between viewport shading modes causes models to become invisible if they use vertex colours (Pose mode) #72823