[Bf-taskforce25] Multires branch

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi Nicholas,

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:43 -0500, Nicholas Bishop wrote:
> I'm wondering about the possibility of switching to the new multires
> modifier (from my soc-2008-nicholasbishop branch) for 2.5.
> 
> The old multires code had little bits littered all through the code
> because a lot of things had to be disabled when multires was enabled.
> It'd be nice not to have to port over that old mess for 2.5! This is
> no longer a problem with the multires modifier, which is pretty self
> contained.

I'm fine with having new multires in 2.5.

> The main problem with the new multires modifier is that it's slower
> than the old multires. However, since the storage for displacements is
> now nicely separated from the modifier itself, there shouldn't be any
> compatibility problems as further changes are made to multires, so I'd
> like to see it merged for 2.5.

Sure, any new functionality has upsides and downsides, if there is
performance problem I'm sure it will be tackled for Durian one way or
another.

Brecht.