[Bf-committers] [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [12455] branches/qdune/blender: Added support for subsurf orco coords, but still doesn't work properly

[Joe Eagar]

Alfredo de Greef wrote:
> I see, well, what you want to look into then are 'mean
> value coordinates'. While there is actually code for
> it in QD, it isn't actually used.
> It was used only for the actual micropolygon value
> interpolations and while it does produce superior
> results, for mp's it was too slow. I haven't used it
> yet for polygons/subsurf.
> The subsurf code currently does this just by midpoint
> subdivision, so in effect linear interpolations.
>
> However, I happened to see that Brecht just a few days
> ago commited code for exactly this purpose in arithb.c
> So you can just use that instead :)
> see
> http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/2007-November/011714.html
>
> Alfredo
>   
I thought mean value coordinates wouldn't work either?  Though now that 
I consider it, I guess they could, if you knew the mapped positions of 
the original verts in a face.  Hrm.

Joe