[Soc-2006-dev] SoC weekly reporting

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Hi,

Jean-Luc Peurière wrote:
> So, if you do it outside of the stack, you need a way to feed back the 
> results to the stack, for other operations. 
> 
> that can be a command to convert a given level of mrm to normal
> subsurf modifier (but you must be sure you use same subdiv
>  algorithm) or a placeholder modifier to take the result. i would
>  probably favor convert but if you implement not equivalent 
> subdiv, you'll need the latter
> 
> the important point is to not  have to deal with the full derived mesh 
> in edit mode, but only the base one.
> 
> Brecht remarks for uses or mrm outside of sculpt context are valid too,
> but your role would be only to allow for it, it is outside of your scope.

Just to clarify, this is what I am proposing: only allow MRM editing in
sculpt mode, and use the modifier stack to display the result outside
sculpt mode. Only the conversion would happen automatically each
time sculpt mode is entered or exited, so the user wouldn't have to do
it manually.

Brecht.