diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_bmesh.h b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_bmesh.h
index 87202ce047a..ab2fd34cd42 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_bmesh.h
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_bmesh.h
@@ -41,18 +41,79 @@
 #include "BLI_ghash.h"
 #include "BLI_memarena.h"
 #include "DNA_customdata_types.h"
+#include "DNA_image_types.h"
 #include "BLI_editVert.h"
 #include "BKE_DerivedMesh.h"
 #include "transform.h"
 
+/*forward declerations*/
 struct BME_Vert;
 struct BME_Edge;
 struct BME_Poly;
 struct BME_Loop;
 
+
 struct BME_mempool;
 typedef struct BME_mempool BME_mempool;
 
+/*Custom Data Types and defines
+	Eventual plan is to move almost everything to custom data and let caller
+	decide when making the mesh what layers they want to store in the mesh
+
+	This stuff should probably go in a seperate file....
+*/
+typedef struct BME_CustomDataLayer {
+	int type;       				/* type of data in layer */
+	int offset;     				/* offset of layer in block */
+	int active;     				/* offset of active layer*/
+	char name[32];  				/* layer name */
+} BME_CustomDataLayer;
+
+typedef struct BME_CustomData {
+	BME_CustomDataLayer *layers;	/*Custom Data Layers*/
+	BME_mempool *pool;				/*pool for alloc of blocks*/
+	int totlayer, totsize;         	/*total layers and total size in bytes of each block*/
+} BME_CustomData;
+
+#define BME_CD_FACETEX		1		/*Image texture/texface*/
+#define BME_CD_LOOPTEX		2		/*UV coordinates*/
+#define BME_CD_LOOPCOL		3		/*Vcolors*/
+#define BME_CD_DEFORMVERT	4		/*Vertex Group/Weights*/
+#define BME_CD_NUMTYPES		5
+
+typedef struct BME_DeformWeight {
+	int				def_nr;
+	float			weight;
+} BME_DeformWeight;
+
+typedef struct BME_DeformVert {
+	struct BME_DeformWeight *dw;
+	int totweight;
+} BME_DeformVert;
+
+typedef struct BME_facetex{
+	struct Image *tpage;
+	char flag, transp;
+	short mode, tile, unwrap;
+}BME_facetex;
+
+typedef struct BME_looptex{
+	float u, v;
+}BME_looptex;
+
+typedef struct BME_loopcol{
+	char r, g, b, a;
+}BME_loopcol;
+
+/*Notes on further structure Cleanup:
+	-Remove the tflags, they belong in custom data layers
+	-Remove the eflags completely, they are mostly not used
+	-Remove the selection/vis/bevel weight flag/values ect and move them to custom data
+	-Remove EID member and move to custom data
+	-Add a radial cycle length, disk cycle length and loop cycle lenght attributes to custom data and have eulers maintain/use them if present.
+	-Move data such as vertex coordinates/normals to custom data and leave pointers in structures to active layer data.
+	-Remove BME_CycleNode structure?
+*/
 typedef struct BME_CycleNode{
 	struct BME_CycleNode *next, *prev;
 	void *data;
@@ -72,9 +133,9 @@ typedef struct BME_Mesh
 	struct BME_Loop **lpar;
 	struct BME_Poly **plar;
 	int vtarlen, edarlen, lparlen, plarlen;
-	int totvert, totedge, totpoly, totloop;			/*record keeping*/
-	int nextv, nexte, nextp, nextl;					/*Next element ID for verts/edges/faces/loops. Never reused*/
-	//struct CustomData vdata, edata, pdata, ldata;	/*Custom Data Layer information*/
+	int totvert, totedge, totpoly, totloop;				/*record keeping*/
+	int nextv, nexte, nextp, nextl;						/*Next element ID for verts/edges/faces/loops. Never reused*/
+	struct BME_CustomData vdata, edata, pdata, ldata;	/*Custom Data Layer information*/
 } BME_Mesh;
 
 typedef struct BME_Vert
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/BME_mesh.c b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/BME_mesh.c
index 307047463cf..e12ba2f8c65 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/BME_mesh.c
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/BME_mesh.c
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@
  *  Allocates a new BME_Mesh structure
 */
 
-
-
+//BME_Mesh *BME_make_mesh(int valloc, int ealloc, int lalloc, int palloc, int vdata[BME_CD_NUMTYPES], int edata[BME_CD_NUMTYPES], int ldata[BME_CD_NUMTYPES], int pdata[BME_CD_NUMTYPES])
 BME_Mesh *BME_make_mesh(int valloc, int ealloc, int lalloc, int palloc){
 	/*allocate the structure*/
 	BME_Mesh *bm = MEM_callocN(sizeof(BME_Mesh),"BMesh");
@@ -72,11 +71,17 @@ BME_Mesh *BME_make_mesh(int valloc, int ealloc, int lalloc, int palloc){
 	bm->epool = BME_mempool_create(sizeof(BME_Edge), ealloc, ealloc);
 	bm->ppool = BME_mempool_create(sizeof(BME_Poly), palloc, palloc);
 	bm->lpool = BME_mempool_create(sizeof(BME_Loop), lalloc, lalloc);
-	/*allocate the customdata pools*/
+
+	/*Setup Custom data structs and layers*/
+	/*	
+		BME_CD_Create(bm, &bm->vdata, vdata);
+		BME_CD_Create(bm, &bm->edata, edata);
+		BME_CD_Create(bm, &bm->ldata, ldata);
+		BME_CD_Create(bm, &bm->pdata, pdata);
+
+	*/
 	return bm;
 }
-
-
 /*	
  *	BME FREE MESH
  *
@@ -90,8 +95,12 @@ void BME_free_mesh(BME_Mesh *bm)
 	BME_mempool_destroy(bm->epool);
 	BME_mempool_destroy(bm->ppool);
 	BME_mempool_destroy(bm->lpool);
-	/*destroy custom data pools*/
-
+	/*
+		BME_CD_Free(bm, &bm->vdata);
+		BME_CD_Free(bm, &bm->edata);
+		BME_CD_Free(bm, &bm->ldata);
+		BME_CD_Free(bm, &bm->pdata);
+	*/
 	MEM_freeN(bm);	
 }
 
@@ -156,6 +165,13 @@ void BME_model_end(BME_Mesh *bm){
 	}
 }
 
+/*note, this needs to be turned on for debugging only.
+	We need two levels of debugging,
+	1: Mesh level
+	2: Euler level
+	Both need to be turned off in production builds (they really slow things down)
+*/
+
 /*	
  *	BME VALIDATE MESH
  *
diff --git a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/bmesh_private.h b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/bmesh_private.h
index ed58421ffb7..4aa2a85b8b1 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/bmesh_private.h
+++ b/source/blender/blenkernel/intern/bmesh_private.h
@@ -39,10 +39,6 @@
 
 #include "BKE_bmesh.h"
 
-/*MEMORY MANAGMENT*/
-struct BME_mempool;
-typedef struct BME_mempool BME_mempool;
-
 struct BME_mempool *BME_mempool_create(int esize, int tote, int pchunk);
 void BME_mempool_destroy(struct BME_mempool *pool);
 void *BME_mempool_alloc(struct BME_mempool *pool);