Clone PolygonMesh

jolran

The data has to be stored somewhere. At least for Vray, the properties are stored as an XML structure in the material's attributes.

Allright!
Can't say I havent thought about the idea to include this functionality into the plugin,
to be honest.
But the risk of feature freenzy and bloat is to big, so I probably stick to only a design/modeling tool.

@unknownuser said:

Well I think I would be. I mean, this king of UI without zooming is kind of cumbersome, don't you think?

Yeah, I guess you are right. Come to think of it, you might be even more dependent of "special-nodes", displaying textures and stuff.

tt_su

For fastest performance of "copying" a PolygonMesh use the number of points and polygons in the new argument. Then populate the points and finally add the polygons with indices.

I agree that it'd be nice to have .dup and .clone make a fresh copy.

jolran

Yes, Thanks. I used that and noticed some increase in performance.
But I have kind of abandoned the PolygonMesh for now. At least during the previewing state.

I experimented building my own meshclass with indexing of points. Instead of using PolygonMesh class as a Point container.

Keep arrays of indexes and a Hash containing Points. And the Transformation only deals with the uniq points(Hash) then. Quite a lot of speed improvements!

The advantage here is that I can reuse the objects somewhat, while I can't purge/clear(?) a PolygonMesh. So the GC should work a little less.

I'm sure you guys have/are doing something similar or more advanced...