A very common source of annoyance and confusion is that trimesh.load can return lots of different types (i.e. #2239, etc). This re-factor changes the return types to:
trimesh.load -> Geometry
stays mostly as-is but use is discouraged
trimesh.load_scene -> Scene
the most general container which can hold any loadable type.
most people should probably use this
trimesh.load_mesh -> Trimesh
does the equivalent of `trimesh.load(force='mesh') which does potentially drop information.
the trimesh.load(..., force='mesh') will be deprecated in favor of load_mesh
trimesh.load_path -> Path
these can be Path2D or Path3D which both inherit but is still a little outside the spirit of "functions should return the same type always." Maybe a force_dimension argument could be here.
This requires some deprecation notices and careful thinking so I'll leave it open for a while.
A very common source of annoyance and confusion is that
trimesh.loadcan return lots of different types (i.e. #2239, etc). This re-factor changes the return types to:trimesh.load -> Geometrytrimesh.load_scene -> Scenetrimesh.load_mesh -> Trimeshtrimesh.load(..., force='mesh')will be deprecated in favor ofload_meshtrimesh.load_path -> PathPath2DorPath3Dwhich both inherit but is still a little outside the spirit of "functions should return the same type always." Maybe aforce_dimensionargument could be here.This requires some deprecation notices and careful thinking so I'll leave it open for a while.