Hi blender artists, I guess this is my first post, I have been using blender since 2.49b
Blender desperately needs a Transfer Vertex Order feature, so that two objects that are exactly the same, apart from having different vertex orders, can have the vertex order transferred in much the same way that the Transfer UV feature works, by selecting the destination first, then selecting the source object last, then by pressing Ctrl and L, to bring up the make links menu, to see the Transfer Vertex Order feature.
Reasons for the Transfer Vertex Order, first of all you can literally find 100âs of forum questions relating to this very issue, by searching for terms such as âblender copy vertex orderâ, and âblender UV transfer problemâ where people trying to help often misunderstand the issue or suggest outdated scripts and solutions.
The main issue is where people use the Transfer UV Maps feature, only to have the destination UV turn to a complete mess, because the vertex order is not taken into account before transferring the UVâs. The model can be exactly the same but the vertex order can get change for any number of reasons.
Either way I think alot of people would appreciate such a great solid feature and having the ability to fix such an annoying issue, potentially saving people 100 of hours of work. Not having such an important feature puts a major road block in a productive work-flow, specially when you have a number of different models, setup with different UV layouts, for projection painting, that take days to setup.
Additionally, There is already a feature called sort elements, the only thing is sort elements doesnât sort the vertex order the same way on two copyâs of the same object, this makes sort elements completely useless as It Basically randomizes everything no matter what setting you use. Is the sort elements feature supposed to help with matching vertex orders? If so this could actually be a bug that needs to be reported, if not we need to above.
Maya has a Transfer Vertex Order, Can blender also have one?