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Overlay: 'Show Cone' for Spotlights is much smaller than before
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System Information
Operating system: Linux-5.3.12-200.fc30.x86_64-x86_64-with-fedora-30-Thirty 64 Bits
Graphics card: GeForce GTX 970M/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 440.31

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.82 (sub 6), branch: master, commit date: 2019-12-19 09:05, hash: rB076cedc777bd
Worked: rB9516921c05b^

Short description of error
The Show Cone dimensions are much smaller than before. This is an additional report to T72574

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

overlay_spotlight_show_cone_bug.blend539 KBDownload

  • Open file, observe this issues:
  • compared to 2.81a the cone/light outline size is drawn smaller/shorter than before -- I know the light can be scaled to compensate, but prior default seemed to make more sense?

So this degraded in multiple steps:

  • 2.81a still good
  • rB9516921c05b would still draw the cone (but much smaller/shorter than before)

Revisions and Commits

rB Blender
rB3fa548f98627 Fix T72871 Overlay: Spotlights cone is much smaller than before

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Event Timeline

Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) created this task.Jan 3 2020, 11:23 AM
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) mentioned this in T72574: Overlay: 'Show Cone' for Spotlights not working anymore.
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Confirmed.Jan 3 2020, 11:26 AM
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) added a project: EEVEE & Viewport.
Philipp Oeser (lichtwerk) added subscribers: Jeroen Bakker (jbakker), Clément Foucault (fclem).
Vyacheslav (hitrpr) added a subscriber: Vyacheslav (hitrpr).Jan 12 2020, 5:55 PM
Bastien Montagne (mont29) changed the subtype of this task from "Report" to "Bug".Jan 14 2020, 2:54 PM
Clément Foucault (fclem) added a comment.Jan 15 2020, 1:31 PM

This is because cones were previously using the shadow end clip distance to draw. But now it has been removed. I guess we could just make them as big as old default.

Clément Foucault (fclem) closed this task as Resolved by committing rB3fa548f98627: Fix T72871 Overlay: Spotlights cone is much smaller than before.Jan 15 2020, 2:46 PM
Clément Foucault (fclem) claimed this task.
Clément Foucault (fclem) added a commit: rB3fa548f98627: Fix T72871 Overlay: Spotlights cone is much smaller than before.
Vyacheslav (hitrpr) added a comment.Jan 15 2020, 7:07 PM

I am using cone to see in workbench clearly, what will be touched with light. It makes esier to aim spotlight. So yes, please, big and scalable cone as old one.