[Bf-committers] CSG Carve update

[joe]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Ken Hughes<khughes at pacific.edu> wrote:
> As of this about 30 minutes ago I've got Carve running as a library from
> Blender.  Right now it doesn't handle inheriting face properties
> (materials, images, UV, etc) but I've been working with Tobias and I
> don't think it will be that difficult.
>
> A few issue I see right now:
> * with editmesh we have to use the library's triangulator to guarantee
> faces with no more than 4 vertices.  I'm guessing bmesh might be able to
> handle these?

Yes it will, though it won't support holes in faces.

> * there seem to be issues sometimes when passing the library quads;
> don't know if when the triangulator is used if you also have to give it
> only tris as well.
> * the output mesh has lots of faces.  I spent a quite a bit of time on
> our boolean code trying to merge output faces to reduce the number of
> them.  Again, maybe this will be a moot issue with bmesh?

I don't know, would have to get more details on just what sort of
faces it spits out.

Joe