Inconsistent bounding boxes

[Utopiah]

Hi,

I tried to repeat AdaRoseCannon/aframe-htmlmesh#4 here but it didn't work. I tried making a bounding box but the geometry was very different from what I expected, namely a square rather than a rectangle.

In the screenshot below I can show one that worked, the lower one, and one that didn't, despite using the same code

el = new THREE.BoxHelper( document.getElementById("locationreload").object3D.children[0], 0x00ff00 ); AFRAME.scenes[0].object3D.add(el)

Is somehow forcing a sync() necessary? Did I miss a step? Note that I did that via the console and seconds after the scene was displayed so I'm relatively confident everything was loaded, at least displayed as it should. I also noticed #38 before but again, I'm not doing it right after adding the element so not sure it would relevant here.

Anyway, what is the recommended way to add a background behind an entire element or part of it?

PS: I noticed https://protectwise.github.io/troika/troika-three-text/#carets-and-selection-ranges that could later on be useful to highlight words or lines but didn't dive in there before being able to have the entire element.

[Utopiah]

The AFrame inspector also makes the square bounding boxes on element selection

[Utopiah]

If I change value from 12345 to 1 the bounding box does seems like it is update properly so... maybe unrelated, maybe a threejs/AFrame boxhelper issue. Leaving this open for now as I still investigate.

[Utopiah]

Seems it's a boxhelper issue as the boundingbox itself seems fine and creating a boxgeometry from it works as expected. Less convenient but sufficient to add a background.

[lojjic]

My suspicion is the BoxHelper was reading the geometry.boundingBox before the text sync() callback is complete and not getting updated afterward? 🤷

[lijualivenow]

I am facing the same issue, the bounding box is not getting properly

[Utopiah]

@lijualivenow try checking 1000ms after creating the entity and if it does make a difference tried indeed .sync() and check after, iirc worked for me.

[lijualivenow]

@Utopiah, after 1000ms it's working, thank you.