Enable outlines via text elements or function parameters

Yes, when you’re using a text puzzle as input, it assumes that an object name is supplied. To make it work with a collection, you can use the following undocumented hackery – use a list consisting of two text puzzles: “GROUP” and “your collection name”.

This issue is not specific to the outline puzzle but rather to all puzzles in general. When using text puzzles instead of selectors, you have to somehow distinguish between object names and collection names. So I think we won’t be changing this behavior in the observable future.

Glad I found this! I’m having a similar issue, but rather than enabling outlines on a collection of objects, I’m attempting to combine text with a picked object puzzle. Attaching a screen shot here for clarity.

The picked object in this case is called “housing.” I would expect resulting text to be “outline.housing” which is the same name as my variable.

It’s not working as shown here. If I replace my create text puzzle with the “outline.housing” variable puzzle, it works fine.

Thank you Yuri. This is good to know. I managed to find another solution. I actually used Collections in Blender and the info here you shared to get it running. I’m sure the “variable value by name” puzzle will come in handy soon though.