VSE: Text strip outline wrongly goes "into" the text area (visible with semitransparent font color) #125043

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Aras Pranckevicius · 2024-07-19T07:09:49+02:00

2024-07-19 07:09:49 +02:00

Broken: 4.2

VSE text strip outline (new feature in 4.2) goes outside of the text boundary (as expected), but also into the inside of the text (not expected). With fully opaque text color that is not an issue, but becomes visible with a semitransparent or fully transparent text color. Reported on the chat by @angelo.benetti:

To get the expected behavior currently one has to use a complex masking setup:

Broken: 4.2 VSE text strip outline (new feature in 4.2) goes outside of the text boundary (as expected), but also into the inside of the text (not expected). With fully opaque text color that is not an issue, but becomes visible with a semitransparent or fully transparent text color. Reported on the chat by @angelo.benetti: ![screen1.png](/attachments/f28825bd-c2fa-4b81-ae93-01047e38d032) To get the expected behavior currently one has to use a complex masking setup: ![screen2.png](/attachments/e5b7f928-c0d9-41a2-8933-c6a894642320)

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YimingWu commented

2024-07-19 08:18:02 +02:00

I think the outline never was taking account of the thickness and just draw text to overlap them 🤔

Aras Pranckevicius commented

2024-07-19 11:58:22 +02:00

I think the outline never was taking account of the thickness and just draw text to overlap them 🤔

Not sure what that refers to. Text strip outlines are a new feature in 4.2, there's no "never was taking into account" to speak of since it simply did not exist at all before 4.2.

> I think the outline never was taking account of the thickness and just draw text to overlap them 🤔 Not sure what that refers to. Text strip outlines are a new feature in 4.2, there's no "never was taking into account" to speak of since it simply did not exist at all before 4.2.

hamza.SMA commented

2024-07-19 12:06:46 +02:00

i don't know coding but , looking on GreasePencil it can convert text to GP using stroke as "first" outlines and if we desable the fill or use transparent/holdout color will get desired result.
so if test strip can use GP material or get idea from its coding maybe we can do sth ...
only i speak from nothing maybe someone can bring from it something.

i don't know coding but , looking on GreasePencil it can convert text to GP using stroke as "first" outlines and if we desable the fill or use transparent/holdout color will get desired result. so if test strip can use GP material or get idea from its coding maybe we can do sth ... only i speak from nothing maybe someone can bring from it something.

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VSE: Text strip outline wrongly goes "into" the text area (visible with semitransparent font color) #125043