import string attributes.

[simonbroggi]

unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to use them with GeoNodes yet

[HannahFantasia]

Hi there! what would be the reason why this PR isn't committed?

[simonbroggi]

Hi there! what would be the reason why this PR isn't committed?

It didn't seem useful to have attributes of type string on a mesh since there's is no way of using them with geometry nodes, as far as I know. How would you use such attributes?

[HannahFantasia]

To my knowledge, with the string to curve node, you can make interesting node graphs regarding that. If you have the string on the same coordinate as the float or integer that is supposed to be visualised.

[simonbroggi]

To my knowledge, with the string to curve node, you can make interesting node graphs regarding that. If you have the string on the same coordinate as the float or integer that is supposed to be visualised.

Yes, true, that's why I implemented it.
But I didn't find a way to actually get the data from the generated geometry.
There's no type String in the "Named Attribute" Node.
That's why I don't think it would be possible to get the string data in geometry nodes.

[HannahFantasia]

Right, I looked into it and it seems that according to an individual, it means that currently it can only hold 256 long character strings in it. Which is considered a limitation. I doubt it will ever be upgraded to something more. Quite unfortunate it seems for now.

[simonbroggi]

Strings with a maximum length of 256 would probably be enough to label things in info graphics.
But as long as there's no way to access the strings with a node there's no way to use it I guess..
In case you find out some way to access the data I'd be happy update the plugin to allow importing strings.

[levaleureux]

I agree with @simonbroggi juste for labeling things it's very usefull and allow the possibility to create data driven map.
You can for example put name of town...
see this example can be extend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8964q07wzys and automate the naming of object.