[Bf-committers] User data for external renderers, et. al.

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Quoting Robert Wenzlaff <rwenzlaff@soylent-green.com>:

> One of the problems with using external renderers with blender, it that the 
> current material system's parameters don't neccessarily corespond  to the 
> external renderer's (I will use for example here, Index of Refraction).   
> 
> I propose implimenting a new data type, UserData. 


Sounds like the per-vertex properties proposal. I think this is a good idea, 
and Ton wrote quite a bit about how this might work. See this thread:

http://www.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2003-July/003532.html

Tom