diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/DerivedMesh.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/DerivedMesh.c
index 1e09dc43f61..5985049ea56 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/DerivedMesh.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/DerivedMesh.c
@@ -1454,6 +1454,12 @@ static void mesh_calc_modifiers(Scene *scene, Object *ob, float (*inputVertexCos
 	}
 #endif /* WITH_GAMEENGINE */
 
+	/* Re-tesselation is necessary to push render data (uvs, textures, colors)
+	   from loops and polys onto the tessfaces. This may be currently be redundant
+	   in cases where the render mode doesn't use these inputs, but ideally
+	   eventually tesselation would happen on-demand, and this is one of the primary
+	   places it would be needed. */
+	finaldm->recalcTesselation(finaldm);
 	finaldm->calcNormals(finaldm);
 
 	*final_r = finaldm;
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/cdderivedmesh.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/cdderivedmesh.c
index c890ca9d01f..bf055592e3d 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/cdderivedmesh.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/cdderivedmesh.c
@@ -1644,8 +1644,7 @@ static CDDerivedMesh *cdDM_create(const char *desc)
 	dm->getTessFaceDataArray = DM_get_tessface_data_layer;
 
 	dm->calcNormals = CDDM_calc_normals;
-	//doesn't work yet for all cases
-	//dm->recalcTesselation = CDDM_recalc_tesselation;
+	dm->recalcTesselation = CDDM_recalc_tesselation;
 
 	dm->getVertCos = cdDM_getVertCos;
 	dm->getVertCo = cdDM_getVertCo;
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/subsurf_ccg.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/subsurf_ccg.c
index 9e82bae9195..5f23b547e98 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/subsurf_ccg.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/subsurf_ccg.c
@@ -2758,6 +2758,11 @@ static struct PBVH *ccgDM_getPBVH(Object *ob, DerivedMesh *dm)
 	return ccgdm->pbvh;
 }
 
+static void ccgDM_recalcTesselection(DerivedMesh *UNUSED(dm))
+{
+	/* Nothing to do: CCG handles creating its own tessfaces */
+}
+
 static void ccgDM_calcNormals(DerivedMesh *UNUSED(dm))
 {
 	/* Nothing to do: CCG calculates normals during drawing */
@@ -2853,6 +2858,7 @@ static CCGDerivedMesh *getCCGDerivedMesh(CCGSubSurf *ss,
 	ccgdm->dm.getTessFaceData = DM_get_face_data;
 
 	ccgdm->dm.calcNormals = ccgDM_calcNormals;
+	ccgdm->dm.recalcTesselation = ccgDM_recalcTesselection;
 
 	ccgdm->dm.getVertCos = cgdm_getVertCos;
 	ccgdm->dm.foreachMappedVert = cgdm_foreachMappedVert;