From 6715bfee92e72dd91a4bebd2fd81f817036f3a91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sybren=20A=2E=20St=C3=BCvel?= <sybren@stuvel.eu>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:39:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Alembic: Export mesh as mesh, even when it has no vertices.

This makes it possible to have an animated / procedurally generated mesh
that starts empty and obtains data in later frames.

Fixes the export of an empty mesh with an Ocean Modifier, as described in
issue T51351.
---
 source/blender/alembic/intern/abc_exporter.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/source/blender/alembic/intern/abc_exporter.cc b/source/blender/alembic/intern/abc_exporter.cc
index 11c63461ab4..1fb59357f5d 100644
--- a/source/blender/alembic/intern/abc_exporter.cc
+++ b/source/blender/alembic/intern/abc_exporter.cc
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ void AbcExporter::createShapeWriter(Object *ob, Object *dupliObParent)
 		{
 			Mesh *me = static_cast<Mesh *>(ob->data);
 
-			if (!me || me->totvert == 0) {
+			if (!me) {
 				return;
 			}