Comments on: BMesh Status

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:02:30 +0000

Funny thing is…people whine about Ngon support. Then they get Ngon support. Then they whine about the Ngons in their models.

By: juri

juri — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:42:39 +0000

Great work, for once I wish I had credit card.

By: robert

robert — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:38:57 +0000

Joeedh: In my experience they're best only used as flat collision objects.

By: joeedh

joeedh — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:09:57 +0000

Thanks for the support everyone!

@Hitechboy: Billrey is correct, softbodies, fluid, etc will all still work. softbodies and cloth may need some work to correctly handle ngons, but it shouldn't be too difficult (and I don't even know if people use ngons in softbody/cloth simulations).

The previous mesh refactors, that trashed a lot of code at once all failed, so this time around we chose to make it so existing code can interface with the new code, that way it still works (if not always in the best way) until it's eventually rewritten.

By: Billrey

Billrey — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:14:21 +0000

Hitechboy: As far as I know most of that should still work, although there may be tweaks needed. Not a huge task according to the developers involved, only minor adjustments.

By: Hitechboy

Hitechboy — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:33:57 +0000

If the mesh system changes, What will happen to blenders fluid, soft body, body systems? Will they have to be redone? If so how long would things like that take?

By: Petri Rantanen

Petri Rantanen — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:32:33 +0000

It seems you can donate to support this work
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=156867

By: kijja

kijja — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:26:59 +0000

!!! Go BLENDER GO >>>>

Ohhh Can't wait for 2.5 …

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:22:57 +0000

Fricking awesome! I really hated blender because it lacked ngons and some of the modeling tools are really shitty because of that.

Hope this will make it in for 2.5 release…

By: pjohnsen

pjohnsen — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:50:57 +0000

Missing ngon support is the one thing that has always held me back from fully switching to blender.

With this it should be possible to implement a proper cut tool, like in Maya, which I find essential for reworking topology.

Cheer, cheer, cheer :)