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Bad at selecting objects - in Wireframe - on 'old' files.
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System Information
Operating system: Darwin-19.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit 64 Bits
Graphics card: AMD Radeon R9 M295X OpenGL Engine ATI Technologies Inc. 4.1 ATI-3.10.16

Blender Version
Broken: version: 2.91.0 Alpha, branch: master, commit date: 2020-08-23 12:48, hash: rBe4932d1167f4
Worked: October 10th - this bug has been present in every daily build since 15th October - I have tried 15th, 17th, 20th and 24th and am unable to use any of these builds because this bug makes them unusable.

Short description of error
New files seem fine, but if you open a file made in older versions - ie, only a few days old - the objects will not be selectable unless you click really close to their origin. Selecting the mesh on the outer edges does not select, but selecting very close to the origin does work.
I'll attach a file that I am unable to select meshes on.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

  1. Open a file from before the 15th October?...
  2. Try to select a 'larger' object in the scene by clicking its outer extremities. Can you select it? No?
  3. Try selecting the same object by clicking close to its origin. Can you select it? Yes!

..oh, ok. sorry. this gets weirder...
Have just tested the file to upload and have found that..

  1. This only happens in Wireframe view
  2. This only happens in SOME viewports!

Try the file I uploaded and see if you get the same?

  1. In Layout workspace you will have 3 3d viewports open
  2. On my machine, in Wireframe, I can ONLY select the moon or its halo in the main, top left view - I cannot select them at all in the other 2 views?!

Event Timeline

Hi, sorry - I have more info - this appears to be exacerbated in some way by Toggle X-Ray.
I can't quite figure out when it's behaving as expected and when it's bugging, but it's definitely bugging sometimes!
I am now having more trouble selecting the background planes - toggling X-ray helps with selecting the moon, but still causes trouble when selecting the larger background planes.
Have fun!
Wayne

Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii) changed the task status from Needs Triage to Needs Information from User.Aug 25 2020, 10:37 PM

T79811 has been solved, so if it is the same problem it will no longer be seen in tomorrow's build.
https://builder.blender.org/download/

@Wayne Johnson (slowboy), can you check when available?

Will do, thank you Germano!

@Germano Cavalcante (mano-wii)
Looking good on the latest version (25th Aug) - thanks all!

Clément Foucault (fclem) closed this task as Resolved.Aug 26 2020, 2:18 PM
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