Thank you so much!
Looking forward to using this patch instead of my workaround :)

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:50 AM Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:

> I think this is the fix:  https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/2981
>
> Thanks for alerting me to this bug, Daniel.
>
>
> On May 27, 2021, at 11:22 PM, Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
>
> Aha, there does seem to be a bug. The docs say that render_text ought to
> be doing an "over", but you are right, it's not behaving that way at all!
>
> Your understanding of what *should* happen is also how I thought it
> worked. It's just a mistake somewhere, I will try to find a fix.
>
> -- lg
>
>
> On May 27, 2021, at 12:35 AM, Daniel Flehner Heen <flehnerhee...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Larry!
>
> Apologize for the lack of response.
>
> Inspecting the values indeed show variations in the alpha channel, so it
> works and this turns out to be a case of misconception from my side.
> I assumed that render_text would do an "over" and that by setting alpha of
> text color to values below 1 would yield "see through" text rather than
> directly manipulating the pixels in the buffer.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:31 PM Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, of course I meant (1+0.6*something). The 0.4 is opacity, not
>> transparency.
>>
>> A over B = A + (1-A.alpha)*B
>>
>>
>> On May 25, 2021, at 12:30 PM, Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, you have set the text color to (1,1,1,0.4), so if you put that
>> "over" an image, then write to (or display on) a LDR device or file, the
>> resulting "clamp" to the full intensity of the output will not be
>> distinguishable from if it were opaque. But if you are inspecting values in
>> an HDR format like OpenEXR, then the values of text (1,1,1,0.4) over
>> "something" will be (1+0.4*something, ...), whereas opaque (1,1,1,1) over
>> "something" will be exactly (1.0, ...) no matter what the something is.
>> Note that for both of those, if clamped to a max of 1.0, they will look the
>> same.
>>
>>
>> On May 25, 2021, at 12:18 PM, Daniel Flehner Heen <
>> flehnerhee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmmm. I've only checked visually, but when rendering on an image I can't
>> see through the text. If you get transparency I must be doing
>> something wrong.
>> I'm not in front of a computer at the moment, but I'll try and break down
>> my process and see if I can figure it out.
>> I'll let you know what I find.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 25, 2021, 21:01 Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Works for me. How are you determining that there is "no difference in
>>> transparency"? Are you inspecting the alpha values in the output file? Are
>>> you compositing on top of something?
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 25, 2021, at 11:58 AM, Daniel Flehner Heen <
>>> flehnerhee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, should have been more specific.
>>> There seems to be no difference in the text's transparency for values
>>> between 0.1 and 1.0 for the alpha channel.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 25, 2021, 20:48 Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What happens, specifically?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 25, 2021, at 6:31 AM, Daniel Flehner Heen <
>>>> flehnerhee...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I'm attempting to render text with 40% opacity in python without
>>>> success. OIIO 2.2.10.1
>>>>
>>>> ``` python
>>>> import OpenImageIO as oiio
>>>> buf = oiio.ImageBuf(oiio.ImageSpec(640, 480, 4 oiio.FLOAT))
>>>> oiio.ImageBufAlgo.render_text(buf, 100, 200, "Hello, World!", 60,
>>>> "FreeSans", (1, 1, 1, 0.4))
>>>> buf.write('transparent_text_test.exr')
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> Am I doing something wrong?
>>>> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
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