[Bf-committers] Increase hard max of subdivision operator?

[Rain Gloom]

Yeah, on second thought the warning would get irritating pretty fast. I
vote on Gandalf's too.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Patrick Boelens <p_boelens at msn.com> wrote:

> This would be internally inconsistent though, and frankly seems like
> overkill to me. +1 from me on Gandalf's soft/ hard limit suggestion.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 30, 2016, at 1:39 AM, Rain Gloom <raingloom42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > IMHO a warning would suffice. It shouldn't be hard to compute an estimate
> > of the number of resulting vertices/faces, so the warning could say
> > something like: "This will create <resulting-number-of-vertices> which
> > might slow down your computer."
> > Same thing as asking before overwriting a file or closing without saving.
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 6:36 AM, gandalf3 <zzyxpaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> As seen in this SE question
> >> <http://blender.stackexchange.com/q/51525/599>, the current
> hard-maximum
> >> number of subdivision cuts (100) is easily within the realm of what
> >> users would like to use.
> >>
> >> What is the reasoning behind having a hard-maximum at all? I can
> >> understand having a soft-maximum to protect against accidentally setting
> >> the number of cuts too high, but that system is already in place and
> >> works well.
> >>
> >> Would it not be more user-friendly to allow any number to be typed
> >> directly, especially if the user wants a prime number of cuts?
> >>
> >> This maximum apparently didn't exist in 2.74
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