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kreator:
Tony: I have no problems either with extrusion am also at a loss to see why this is happening I cant replicate either and would assume there is as you say something locally wrong. I have versions going back to 0.95 and all do as they are supposed to.
Owls Video he emailed to me...
ENSONIQ5:
Hi Kev. The video's coming up as private, are you able to make it available? Not that I think it will be very helpful, I've tried everything I can think of to replicate the fault.
EDIT: It's available now, cheers.
ENSONIQ5:
Owl, from your video there's still some things you are doing that I would consider to be 'wrong', though they may not be the cause of your issue (at least, when I do them I still don't get your fault). If the video above was created before my earlier post please disregard the following.
1) You are still creating a final point very close to (or trying to be co-located with) the first point. This is not necessary and will lead to a badly-formed corner as closing the curve does not merge the points. Closing the curve creates a line from the first to last point regardless of their proximity, so best to open the editor after creating the second-last point.
2) You appear to still be accessing the Path Editor by double-clicking one of these almost-in-the-same-place points rather than double-clicking the path. This could be affecting one of the point's properties (such as converting it to a curve).
3) Finally, I would always de-select 'Extendable' when closing a path. While this shouldn't make any difference, in the interests of determining this fault it would be worth taking this step.
Noteworthy in your video is that the second extrusion (at 1:36) works correctly, this suggests your earlier observation "Once it produces extrusions with no caps, it will do it continuously for all further extrusions" is not correct. While I'm no closer to replicating this fault, if you could try the same test as in the video above while observing the steps I've listed it might help us get a bit closer.
ENSONIQ5:
STOP PRESS: I have successfully replicated this fault by not observing the steps above. I suspect the issue relates to step 2 but I will run some more tests to be sure. Stand by...
No, the issue is step 1. If I try to place a final point on top of the first point I can cause the ends to not cap. The video below shows your fault happening in the first extrusion where I tried to drop a final point over the first point. For the second extrusion (that worked) I did not do this, once the fourth point was created (ie. the third line) I opened the editor and closed the path. This means my second path is an actual quadrilateral, whereas the first path actually has five points with two being very, very close together.
I don't know if this would be classified as a bug, in any case it can be easily avoided. The 'fault' also occurs in V0.97d so it's been there for some time, nothing to do with anything being broken in recent updates.
FINAL UPDATE:
This is not a bug or anything wrong with the code, it relates purely to the path being malformed. If the path crosses itself the extrusion will not cap, on some of your attempts to close the path manually your final point was 'outside' the path, so the path crossed itself when closed. Zoom in on the first/last point on one that failed and you will see what I mean. Sometimes your final point will have been slightly to the 'inside' of the first point, hence the fault appearing to be random. Avoid this doubling-up of points and your extrusions should run as expected.
Owl:
I have added images to several faces before. The attached is a shoe box and a .jpg label.
Have tried for 3 hours of variations and combinations and can not put the label on the "front" of the box (actually left).
Can someone please help and send me back the box with very light blue sides and the label on the "front" (actually left).
Thank You,
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