[Bf-committers] tfaces, makesdna and custom blobs

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hey,

Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> But I was thinking, if we break forward compat anyway, we might as well,
> you know, break it properly. Like allowing a custom blobs of data to be
> attached to verts, edges, and faces, without unified handling of uv's, 
> colors,
> vertex groups, and user defined data, for meshes, nurbes, lattices, .. .
> 
> That's maybe a bit ambitious, and will further delay multiple UV sets for
> those who really want it (hi Campbell :). It doesn't seem impossible,
> but clearly won't be for 2.42 then.
> 
> Good idea? Bad idea?

I think it's best to rewrite this now properly, instead having to change things
again later. So I started drafting a design:
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/CustomElementData

Comments and ideas welcome.

Cheers,
Brecht.