[Bf-committers] collapse/flatten modifier stack?

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Presumably you are still looking at the original object. keep_original
means that a new one is created. It'll be made the active object by the
operator.

> Thanks Tom
> On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 22:05 +0000, Tom Edwards wrote:
>> You're missing this:
>>
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>> bpy.ops.object.convert(keep_original=True)
> I tried it and I got the default i.e. original mesh, i.e. it didn't
> apply the modifier stack, but removed it. Is there something I'm
> missing?
>
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>> 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
>> >
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