stop adding groups from changing the active group with weight transfer, add BKE_defgroup_new function.

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_deform.h b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_deform.h
index 07bdbc1009b..a43a243106d 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_deform.h
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_deform.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ struct ListBase;
 struct bDeformGroup;
 struct MDeformVert;
 
+struct bDeformGroup *BKE_defgroup_new(struct Object *ob, const char *name);
 void                 defgroup_copy_list(struct ListBase *lb1, struct ListBase *lb2);
 struct bDeformGroup *defgroup_duplicate(struct bDeformGroup *ingroup);
 struct bDeformGroup *defgroup_find_name(struct Object *ob, const char *name);
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/deform.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/deform.c
index b82e89d1af6..a492b227815 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/deform.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/deform.c
@@ -51,6 +51,22 @@
 
 #include "BKE_deform.h"  /* own include */
 
+bDeformGroup *BKE_defgroup_new(Object *ob, const char *name)
+{
+	bDeformGroup *defgroup;
+
+	BLI_assert(OB_TYPE_SUPPORT_VGROUP(ob->type));
+
+	defgroup = MEM_callocN(sizeof(bDeformGroup), __func__);
+
+	BLI_strncpy(defgroup->name, name, sizeof(defgroup->name));
+
+	BLI_addtail(&ob->defbase, defgroup);
+	defgroup_unique_name(defgroup, ob);
+
+	return defgroup;
+}
+
 void defgroup_copy_list(ListBase *outbase, ListBase *inbase)
 {
 	bDeformGroup *defgroup, *defgroupn;