Oject mode - "all faces" -- can we retrieve this through python

[AlbertoEAF]

Hi, I’m sure you know that when in Object and wireframe modes if you disable the option “All faces” you don’t see all the mesh’s edges.

Wireframe with “All faces”:

Without “All faces”:

So, what I would like to know is if it’s possible to (in python) know which verts/are being drawn when “all faces” is disabled. This is because I have a method to identify them but because I’m making a script with Abidos to optimise meshes it would be wonderful if we could just get a list from blender with the verts or edges indices (because blender must already know which ones is drawing) so that we could make a faster script without wasting time calculating this kind of redundant things.

Summing up: If blender is only drawing certain edges then it must know which ones is drawing, so, there should be a way to retrieve this data.

Thanks

[test-dr]

dont know if this helps …
i made this short thing one time, because i needed
the list with the selected vertices in editmode.
It writes the list into a new text-“object” in the texteditor in blender.
Together with with mesh-object data (the locations of all vertices)
this list can be used to manipulate only these.

# test-dr, print selected verts-indices in editmode
import Blender
from Blender import *

scn = Scene.GetCurrent()
obj = scn.objects.active
print obj.name
mesh = obj.getData(mesh=True)
print len(mesh.verts)
print mesh.verts[0].sel
editmode = Window.EditMode()
if editmode: Window.EditMode(0)
print "selected verts in editmode are:"
k = 0
text = Text.New()
text.write( "		[" )
for i in mesh.verts:
	if i.sel:
		text.write ("%d,"%i.index)
		k += 1
		if k > 9:
			k = 0
			text.write("
		")
text.write("		]
")
print mesh.verts[0].sel
if editmode: Window.EditMode(1)

[AlbertoEAF]

Thanks test-dr but my problem is that I don’t know which verts are the ones that are rendered with “all faces” disabled :s

[test-dr]

Thanks test-dr but my problem is that I don’t know which verts are the ones that are rendered with “all faces” disabled :s

uuups, sorry
thought you did write:
“This is because I have a method to identify…”
… how do you identify the vertices … if you can select them, then you can query the sel-state of the vertices with python-api.

[AlbertoEAF]

Yeah but our script focuses heavily in performance so all steps we can eliminate…

To identify them i use some calculations - I want to avoid this and get their indices straight from the program