[Bf-committers] python nmesh setmode subsurf

[Toni Alatalo]

On Tuesday 02 May 2006 01:08, Alexander Ewering wrote:
> On Mon, 1 May 2006, Ken Hughes wrote:
> >> how can one turn on subsurf using the new api ?
> I guess someone will add compatibility code that will add a subsurf
> modifier for old scripts which try to turn this flag on, right?

i don't know if that should be added. as you know, the move from 2.3 to 2.4 
broke compatibility in some ways in both Blender itself and in the py API 
(notable Armatures).

Blender of course does good efforts for backwards compatibility here: simple 
armatures from before work still in current versions, and I just tested 
subsurfing a mesh in 2.3 and loading it in current cvs, and it indeed created 
a modifier nicely. But obviously in the GUI there is also no button to press 
for subsurfing anymore, just the modstack.

So the equivalent behaviour for py api would perhaps be to make the getter for 
the old subsurf flag to work, based on the modifier info, but have setting it 
raise a DepracationError telling to use the modstack. All the scripts I have 
heard of that have suffered from this problem were exporters that need to 
check the subsurf setting. I guess scripts that create / modify objects and 
set this setting are better ported to the 2.4 series anyway? Or would having 
setting work be important for some reason?

Then again many scripts have already been ported to work with 2.4 .. oh except 
that has the modstack support is so recent that they have had no way of 
getting subsurf info, so they have been just broken .. and probably there is 
a lot of obscure old exporters that have not been touched since 2.4 came (so 
many people in this world seem to like having their own formats :) .. so now 
we have a way for having them just work in 2.42

just thinking aloud,
thanks A. for pointing this out again :)

> | alexander ewering              instinctive mediaworks

~Toni