[Bf-python] Mesh Module

[Martin Poirier]

--- Willian Padovani Germano <wgermano at superig.com.br>
wrote:

> It occurred to me this morning that it might be a
> good idea to make 
> pyverts follow exactly the MVert struct, with the py
> object header being 
> the only difference:
> 
> typedef struct MVert {
> 	float	co[3];
> 	short	no[3];
> 	char flag, mat_nr;
> } MVert;
> 
> ->
> 
> typedef struct PyVert {
> 	PyObject_VAR_HEAD
> 	float	co[3];
> 	short	no[3];
> 	char flag, mat_nr;
> } PyVert;
> 
> With this we can copy data from one to the other
> type with a single 
> memcopy, instead of copying per var: pyvert->flag =
> mvert->flag, etc.

PyObject_VAR_HEAD adds some stuff to the struct
(IIRC), so the memcpy wouldn't work directly, we would
need to add an offset and that's just a big can of
worms, if you ask me.

Of course, using the same names for struct members is
an excellent guideline nonetheless.

Martin


		
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