When there are 2+ consecutive deform modifiers, the second modifier was getting incorrect normals, this only showed up for the displace modifier since its the only deform modifier that uses vertex normals.
It would have been easy to fix this by always calculating normals on deform modifiers, but slow.
To fix this I added a function to check if a deform modifier needs normals, so the normal calculation function only runs if there are 2 modifiers in a row and the second uses normals.
All sculpting used to disappear before. Save MDISPS if new mesh has got the same faces amount.
NOTE: maybe some other layers should be saved?
- Apply multires modififier if MDISPS was auto-created.
Multires's applyModifier used to return unchanged DM when MDISPS was auto-created.
- Set multires totlvl from MDISPS layer when new multires was added to mesh with existing MDISPS layer.
Fixed bug #23657, "Modifiers dosen't work when you select diffrent mesh for object"
Multires modifier now adds empty mdisps if they're missing, rather than displaying a warning
Switching an object's mesh will now check for a multires modifier; if found the modifier's total number of levels are reset to match the mesh's mdisps
Switching the mesh also forces a multires update so that sculpted changes aren't lost
Fixes various crashes and redraw problems, most noticeable new feature
is that you can now sculpt on a multires mesh with deforming modifiers
preceding it.
I've left out support for sculpting on multires with enabled modifiers
following it, in this case only the base mesh can be sculpted now. The
code changes needed to do this are just too ugly in my opinion, would
need a more torough redesign which I don't think we should try now. In
my opinion this is also not really an important case, since it's going
to be incredibly slow anyway to run a modifier on a high res mesh while
sculpting.
So, to summarize current state:
* Fastest sculpting: base mesh with no modifiers or multires with only
modifiers preceding it.
* Slower sculpting: base mesh with modifiers, depends on the speed of
the modifiers.
* Not supported: multires mesh with modifiers following it.
patch by Ben Batt (artificer)
Updated patch for 6 or so modifiers added since the patch was written.
- tested with CMake and SCons
- fixed one error were flags were being added to the fluids type.
- remove BKE_simple_deform.h, simple_deform.c, move functions into MOD_simpledeform.c since there were problems with circular deps.
- moved some fluid and boolean functions used by modifiers too.
