Python: Add compute_text_splines method to Curve
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Authored by Omar Emara (OmarSquircleArt) on Jan 9 2021, 11:05 PM.

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Campbell Barton (campbellbarton)
Sergey Sharybin (sergey)

Summary

This patch adds a new compute_text_splines() method to the Curve ID. If
called on a font curve, the curve splines will be computed and become
accessible through the curve.splines property.

The curve minmax function used an empty nurb listbase to indicate a font
object, so it had to be updated to use the curve type instead.

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rB Blender

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compute-text-splines (branched from master)

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Buildable 12068
Build 12068: arc lint + arc unit

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Omar Emara (OmarSquircleArt) requested review of this revision.Jan 9 2021, 11:05 PM

Omar Emara (OmarSquircleArt) created this revision.

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B12068: Diff 32571.Jan 9 2021, 11:05 PM

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Omar Emara (OmarSquircleArt) edited reviewers, added: Sergey Sharybin (sergey); removed: Bastien Montagne (mont29).Jan 21 2021, 11:42 AM

Such things needs to be done with an extreme care. What is it exactly you're solving?

The issue here is that the result is not very well defined: if used on original object, animation (and possible overrides in the future) is ignored. If the goal is to somehow make it possible to access splines, think better solution would be to do something similar to object.to_mesh().

@Sergey Sharybin (sergey) I will take a look at object.to_mesh().
The goal is to make it possible to access the splines of texts in a procedural manner. We are mainly proposing such feature to satisfy the needs of Animation Nodes users, but this should be useful for all add-on developers.

Abandon in favor of D10354.

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source/

blender/

blenkernel/

intern/

curve.c

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makesrna/

intern/

rna_curve_api.c

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source/blender/blenkernel/intern/curve.c