Text Tag 3D not working in Shaded Mode(s)

Hi,

In any of the shaded display-modes, theText Tag 3D Grasshopper Element no longer displays the text properly. It now displays the text behind all the surfaces, meaning it is almost never visible:

Example Screen Recording:

Example GH Script:

example.3dm (1.8 MB)
example.gh (9.7 KB)

Environment:

  • Rhino Version 8 (8.12.24282.07002, 2024-10-08)
  • MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1

all the best,
@ed.p.may

Hi Ed -

Your screen recording and .gh file both show the Text Tag component. The Text Tag 3D component seems to work fine here.

Could you specify in which version this worked as expected?
In a quick test, in Rhino 7, text tags on the other side of the box are display in front of the box. I assume that’s not desired either?

At any rate, I’ve put this issue on the list → RH-84255 Display: Grasshopper Text Tag Issue
-wim

Hi @wim : sorry - yes I mean the “Text Tag”, not the “Text Tag 3D” - my mistake.

I think today was the first time I’ve ever had this problem - it has always worked before - This is what it looks like in Rhino 7 for me:

so in Rhino 7 yes: it is the opposite: no text is ever hidden by any surfaces… I think that’s how its always been in Rhino 8, until I noticed it today at least?

thanks,
@ed.p.may

Hi Ed -

I just tested a few different versions and went all the way back to 8.1 and it looks like this always behaved the way it does now.
-wim

Personally, I have use cases for both kinds of behaviour, so it would be great to set the see-through visibility of text tags as an option.

RH-84255 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 14

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