[Bf-committers] Updated BMesh Merge Proposal

[Rasmus Lerchedahl Petersen]

> no-crash, no-face - feature committed, also saves on undo memory and
> disk space :).
>
> save as legacy blend still works of course.
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I reviewed BMesh todos with Campbell I specifically asked for ensuring we don't crash old binaries. The software of course cannot read the bmesh faces (showing emppty mesh), but files should not crash on it. You get the warning "expect loss of data" first of course.
Should be simple enough to write an importer as well:
For any face with more than 4 vertics add a point with the averaged 
coordinate and triangulate...