[Bf-committers] HE Mesh win32 build

[joeedh]

Hi.  Thanks to ZanQo, I was able to host a windows build of Blender with 
the new HE mesh at http://www.3developer.com/joeedh/ . Download and 
extract the zip file; inside it you'll find a windows build, a new 
patch, and a zip archive containing the files needed for that new 
patch.  Just unzip the zip below your blender directory, and it'll put 
all the source files in the right place.

To use the new mesh type, select a normal mesh and press ALT-C to make a 
copy of it as an HE Mesh.  This copy will be made at the 3D view cursor 
(I decided to use the new object code for this), and will not delete the 
old mesh.

Select face loops by holding down alt and selecting an edge in face 
selmode, edgeloops are the same way but only in vertex and edge 
selmode.  Border select works, but not circle.  CTRL-SHIFT-R will 
start/stop tool macro recording.  ALT-S is the only transform compatible 
with the macro system, but I've also added precision "macro movers," 
acessable through ALT-CTRL-S.

To executute a macro recording, press either T to play it once, or 
CTRL-T to enter tool paint mode.

Delete key will give you the options of either removing a face, or 
collapsing selected verts.  Subsurf is accessable through the 
editbuttons, but it's the only working thing there.

The renderconverter codes doen't exist yet, and you can't add materials 
either.

And please note: there is still some bugs in this release, I'm sure.  
The merge tool is disabled because it ruins half-edge integrety, I still 
need to figure out how to deal with that.

Have fun!

joeedh
P.S.: oh, and I've included that wink demo I posted a while ago, too 
inside the zip file.