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Normals display does not change when edit normals
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System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.17134 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 1060/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 419.67

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.80 (sub 53), branch: master, commit date: 2019-04-03 16:04, hash: rB2933fd6c7c16

Short description of error
Normals display does not change when edit normals

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

normal_bug.blend603 KBDownload

  • Open the file
  • Mesh > Normals > Rotate Normals
  • We can see the faces changing but not the normal lines

Event Timeline

Lucas Boutrot (thornydre) created this task.Apr 3 2019, 11:31 PM
William Reynish (billreynish) lowered the priority of this task from 90 to 50.Apr 4 2019, 12:45 PM
William Reynish (billreynish) added subscribers: Clément Foucault (fclem), William Reynish (billreynish).

The vertex-per-face normals do update and rotate:

But regular vertex normals and face normals do not.

Hard to say if it's a bug, missing feature, or if it works as intended. Setting to confirmed for now, since it's not entirely clear.

@Clément Foucault (fclem) Do you know about this area? If not feel free to re-assign.

William Reynish (billreynish) raised the priority of this task from 50 to 90.Apr 4 2019, 7:27 PM

Can't tell if this is a bug or not.

Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Archived.Apr 5 2019, 11:30 AM
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) claimed this task.
Sebastian Parborg (zeddb) added a subscriber: Sebastian Parborg (zeddb).

Not a bug, only the custom normals can be manipulated.

William Reynish (billreynish) added a comment.Apr 5 2019, 11:32 AM

Still, this isn't really clear for users why some of the normal display types update to reflect custom normals, but others do not.

We could probably at least clarify things by giving them a better name like Custom Normals, or something that makes the difference clearer.