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Python API: add loop triangles access, remove tessfaces.

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Loop triangles are tessellated triangles create from polygons, for renderers
or exporters that need to match Blender's polygon tesselation exactly. These
are a read-only runtime cache.

Tessfaces are a legacy data structure from before Blender supported n-gons,
and were already mostly removed from the C code.

Details on porting code to loop triangles is in the release notes.

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3539
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Brecht Van Lommel
2018-09-06 14:28:14 +02:00
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@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ When writing scripts that operate on editmode data you will normally want to re-
running the script, this needs to be called explicitly.
The BMesh its self does not store the triangulated faces, they are stored in the :class:`bpy.types.Mesh`,
to refresh tessellation faces call :class:`bpy.types.Mesh.calc_tessface`.
to refresh tessellation triangles call :class:`bpy.types.Mesh.calc_loop_triangles`.
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