[Bf-committers] collapse/flatten modifier stack?

[Tom Edwards]

You're missing this:

bpy.ops.object.convert(keep_original=True)

Which is exactly what you want. It is quite obscure though!

On 21/03/2012 9:04, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
> Hello list,
> This has come up before, albeit in a python context: the desire to get
> the result of the modifier stack as a mesh. There was some discussion
> over the desirability of hard-coded py api, and a question of why not
> just use the apply modifier approach one by one.
>
> I've encountered both the use-case and the problem today.
>
> use-case: collapsing the stack/applying shapekeys for prepping a rigged
> model for 3d printing.
>
> problem: this is the first 'cannot be done' problem I've encountered:
>
> Multimodifiers (correct me if I'm wrong) cannot be simply applied one by
> one: they need to be applied together. And afaik there is no mechanism
> to do this.
>
> Is there anything I'm missing? this seems totally undoable, I wonder how
> render-engines deal with it?
>
> cheers,
> Bassam
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bf-committers mailing list
> Bf-committers at blender.org
> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
>