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| ==Product summary==
| | #REDIRECT [[ColladaMax]] |
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| '''This page is a work in progress. Do not hesitate to give a hand.'''
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| COLLADAMax is a COLLADA import and export plug-in for
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| [http://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax Autodesk 3ds Max]. | |
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| ===Technical information===
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| * Latest version: 3.03J hh
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| * date: June 19th 2007
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| * bug reporting: [http://www.feelingsoftware.com/bugzilla Feeling
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| Software bugzilla]
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| * forum:
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| [http://www.feelingsoftware.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,86/lang,en/
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| Feeling Software Forum]
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| * maintainers: http://www.feelingsoftware.com
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| * feature list: http://www.feelingsoftware.com/content/view/74/91/lang,en/
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| ==ColladaMax 3.03 has been released== 18:18, 8 July 2007 (PDT)
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| It improves the compliance with regards to standard materials, support
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| for scrolling UV animations of bitmaps and a slew of other bug fixes.
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| New versions of ColladaMaya and FCollada were posted as well. Please
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| read the changelog for more information. Registered users can download
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| Feeling Software's COLLADA Tools on our website's Downloads section.
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| Registration is free.
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| Please note that previous versions of Feeling Software's COLLADA tools
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| had a compliance issue with regards to the transparency factor within
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| standard material. This issue is now corrected, but:
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| Data exported with previous versions of our COLLADA tools may import
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| with inverted transparency in ColladaMax 3.03 and ColladaMaya 3.03.
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| == ColladaMax 3.02 has been released==
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| It includes a bunch of bug fixes. Please read the newly merged changelog
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| for more information. Registered users can download Feeling Software's
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| COLLADA Tools on our website's Downloads section. Registration is free.
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| Feeling Software is pleased to announce that ColladaMax 3.01 has been
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| released. This new release includes a wide range of bug fixes, support
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| for the latest version of 3ds Max, etc. Full details can be found below.
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| == ColladaMax 3.01 has been released==
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| * 4062 by staylor
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| ** Extension to Bug311 && Bug293: Skinned animation BakeMatrix export is
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| kinda screwy... The bake matrices export had inconsistencies in the way
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| mesh matrices were evaluated. In some cases, the matrix is evaluated
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| with GetObjectTMAfterWSM, and in others GetNodeTM. This causes
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| animations to be thrown out of wack when ObjTM is not identity. Also,
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| bones should NEVER use ObjTM, as skin & physique use NodeTM, so ObjTM
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| has no visual effect. The transform export has been updated to evaluate
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| each node and export the relevant transform
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| * 4012 by staylor
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| ** fix rotation sampling import. Instead of creating a euler directly
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| and trying to set frames on it, create and populate a hybrid interp
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| controller (as before) then create a euler controller, copy the hybrid.
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| This fixes flipping issues in the data.
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| * 3995 by staylor
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| ** Fixed bad comparison that stopped derived objects (skins and morphs)
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| from assigning their materials.
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| *3973 by staylor
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| ** Fixed: Re-initing ColladaAttrib for instanced objects. Fixed
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| Load/Save of SimpleAttrib parameter block descriptions, moved the
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| functions into ClassDesc. This is consistent with the Max method of
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| obtaining pb descs. On load, it is important that we do not assign
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| memory for max objects, if max free's it, it has to assign it. Fixed
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| SimpleAttrib parameter block ID assignments. (Finally) Fixed extremely
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| anoying heap corruption error on reset (or deleting the wrong objects).
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| It is EXTREMELY important that NO data objects deleted by Max are
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| created in Collada code. This WILL cause all sorts of memory faults.
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| == ColladaMax 3.0 has been released==
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| * 3892 by staylor
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| ** Fixed bad #if statements causing wrong vector definition to be
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| compiled in Max version < 9
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| *3830 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMax: Added code to clean filename of XML characters on HLSL
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| import (as this is an extra URL attribute, it gets no special treatment
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| on load, leaving us with raw XML characters). FUtils: exposed XmlToString
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| *3743 by staylor
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| ** SimpleAttrib has been updated to manage its (and derived classes)
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| param block descs. This should have been in an earlier commit, I dont
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| know why its here again. Emitter export/import no longer relies on the
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| mutation queue objects being present in the scene graph. Morphers no
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| longer force target nodes to be exported, instead they create the needed
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| geometry if it is not already present. The scene graph exports object
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| hierarchies correctly, regardless of whether the parent nodes are
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| exported. What this essentially means is that forced nodes do NOT export
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| geometry. If an entity needs to force geometry. FCollada:
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| FCDParticleComplex emitters now completely manage their mutation queue
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| geometry instances. They will delete them on destruction. DO NOT set in
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| visual scene instances (clone instead) FRenderer: FRControllerInstance
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| has been updated to handle morph targets without scene graph instances.
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| In this case, the controller instance will create new FRMeshs. TODO: Fix
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| the FRMesh instance leak on object destruction?
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| *3725 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed the export of XRef materials that was missing its
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| polygons set symbol.
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| *3719 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMaya/ColladaMax: Fixed the skin object inter-operability
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| between Max and Maya. Had some issues with the generation of pivot
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| points and their usage within the plug-in.
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| *3709 by staylor
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| ** (For the last commit too) Possible fix for 3ds maxs triggering
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| breakpoints on file reset. Added code for properly managing
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| ParamBlockDesc2 items in the ColladaAttrib ClassDesc2. As each instance
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| of the class creates a unique ParamBlockDesc2 desc it is the
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| responsibility of the class to ensure that this description is
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| deregistered and deleted from the ClassDesc
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| *3703 by claforte
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| ** Implemented export of particle instance of mesh geometry. Can now
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| import in GB successfully.
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| *3694 by staylor
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| ** Fixed incorrect export of disabled maps
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| *3546 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed export of look-at even when KeyMatrices option is
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| set Non PRS controllers now default to sampling the matrix. Added
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| support for exporting World space modifiers when keying matrices. Added
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| support for exporting non-std material textures, through both parameter
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| name matching and the max function StdIDToChannel.
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| *3532 by staylor
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| ** Touch up animation export to correctly fall back to baking matrices
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| on non-prs controllers. This will correctly export link constraints or
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| scripted transforms
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| *3517 by glaforte
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| ** COLLADA Tools: Follow the recent changes to FUError and to the
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| Material library.
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| *3490 by staylor
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| ** Fixed particle rotation scaling
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| *3483 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMax: Removed all traces of any references to non-max
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| attributes from the Particle System import/export - including the
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| looping parameters on FCDEmitterParticle.
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| *3477 by staylor
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| ** Added TYPE_TIMEVALUE type support to ExportProperty, and added an
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| FUAssert(type is supported) to these functions for a quick feedback when
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| an export does not work. Fixed export of Drag start/end time values
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| *3439 by staylor
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| ** Replaced several SetReference calls with ReplaceReference (this
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| ensures max's reference system pointers are initialized) Fixed
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| export/import of Particle Speed chaos scale.
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| *3429 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Implemented the export of the start/end-time from the
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| animation timeline. FCollada: Re-implemented the writing out of the
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| start/end-time.
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| *3425 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMax: TODO: Mutlimaps on standard particles can fail to import.
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| Also moved FCDConversionDiffFunctor out of FCDAnimationCurve.h into
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| ConversionFunctions.h
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| *3420 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed up the units/factors of a few force-related values.
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| *3409 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Added the export of force objects and the fields binding
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| them to emitters. The exported force fields are still parameter-less,
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| though. Added the ForceExporter class to ColladaMax.
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| *3407 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMax: Completed import and export of all particle systems, with
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| the exception of MutationList import on PCloud and PArray FCollada:
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| Support for particle systems is complete. Support for forces is coming.
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| *3384 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: A couple of project fix-ups in order to get the project
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| to compile in Release Max 9.
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| *3380 by sli
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| ** Supported material color animation
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| *3378 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Modified the animation-related export options. Removed
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| the "single-anim" option. Added a "create-clip" option that pushes all
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| the animations in one animation clip on export. Added a
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| "enable-animations" option that enables/disables the export of
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| animations. COLLADA Tools: Small typo interface change in FCDAnimation.
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| *3375 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMax: Basic particle import/export Includes support for spray,
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| snow, and blizzard. Other changes include standardizing import/export
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| scaling functors using the FCDConversionFunctor super class. Removed the
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| auto-delete of passed in Functors in favour of a static list of commonly
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| used functors and local objects. Fixed potential issue of creating
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| objects that are not already loaded (deferred plugin load issue) TODO:
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| Refactoring on blizzard to subclass all common parameters, creating a
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| import/export and class heirarchy similar to the simple particle class.
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| This will make adding support for PArray, SuperSpray and PCloud trivial.
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| TODO: Just noticed some times are not constant through export/import.
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| This should be checked out.
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| *3358 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed regression in the export of morph targets whose
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| instances have been deleted.
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| *3341 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed the export of bump maps in the standard Blinn material.
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| *3307 by staylor
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| ** Bug 251: Images always export relative, regardless of export
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| settings. Fixed by applying ForceAbsoluteFlag on FUFileManager. Also
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| fixed (recent) error exporting std materials.
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| *3299 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Public Bugzilla#264: ColladaMax doesn_t import all
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| textures. Fixed the detection of the NV_import mechanism that was
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| exiting early. Ensure that the _valid_node_ flag gets set correctly when
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| creating child nodes for the multiple instance special case. Allow for
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| the finalization of 3dsMax node with no attached FCollada node.
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| *3296 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: A first step to extra/id preservation. Refactored the
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| custom attributes for clarity and re-use: ColladaAttrib is now based on
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| SimpleAttrib XRefCustomAttribute was replaced with ColladaAttrib.
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| Re-organized the 4 class description classes.
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| *3288 by glaforte
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| ** COLLADA Tools: FCDGeometryPolygonsInput::set is now a private member.
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| Also fixed private Bugzilla#404 about the retrieval of the
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| texture-texture coordinate set matches when dealing with material instances.
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| *3283 by glaforte
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| ** FCollada: A bit of a container usage clean-up. On my own time, I'll
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| add a fm::ptr_vector type in order to reduce the executable size of
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| FCollada (at the cost of debug info). Right now, the library size
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| reduction is about 18%.
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| *3267 by ewhittom
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| ** ColladaMax (bug #232) Fixed the asset units' export. Max always uses
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| generic units internally, no matter what are the display preferences.
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| Max's generic units are centimeters, so everything we export from Max is
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| in centimeters. I included some commented code to fetch units
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| preferences if we ever want to convert every number before writing them
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| to the COLLADA file.
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| *3227 by glaforte
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| ** FCollada and COLLADA tools: Renamed
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| FCDGeometryInstance::GetMaterialInstanceList() to GetMaterialInstances()
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| for consistency. Modified the export of lights, cameras, scene nodes and
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| the entity's note in order to use FCDExtra rather than the <extra>
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| element directly. ColladaMaya: Continued the extra preservation task:
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| properly link the scene node instances with the entities. Re-use the
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| material instance structures.
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| *3216 by staylor
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| ** Feeling Veiwer: Contains many changes: SceneNode render is broken
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| down to update and render loops. Every node updates every frame, but may
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| not render. Transform Update is now a downstream process - this means
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| that SceneNodes GET their transforms, instead of the transform objects
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| SETting the values. GetLocalTransform should be used whenever local
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| transform is required. A variety of optimizations have been implemented,
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| and are conditionally compiled via a list of defines in
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| DebugPerformance, a new class for measuring frame render times. Bounding
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| boxes, skinning/morphing updates, vertex animations, are fixed.
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| FRTransform resets have been eliminated. Fixed materials disabled on
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| skins. Implemented skew matricies. Intersection tests are being moved to
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| a seperate namespace, FRIntersect ColladaMax: Upgraded to be compatible
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| with 3ds Max 9 Added name attribute to geometry exported from max.
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| Recursive map export implemented, but much further work is required in
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| this area to standardize non-blinn map export.
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| *3216 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMaya: Fixed -ve colour indices on export.
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| *3204 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed regression in the assignment of the Max texture
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| channels into the FCollada texture channels: glossiness and specular
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| level textures were switched channels on export.
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| *3185 by staylor
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| ** Removed ComposteMtl, as we now use CompositeTexture
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| *3179 by ewhittom
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| ** ColladaMax: (public bug#208) An attempt to fix the group
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| export/import. Valid only for in-Max export-import sequences.
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| *3177 by staylor
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| ** Bug: 228 Added support for Mix map type, by multiplying the export
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| "amount" value by the mix amount. Fixed scaling of "amount" values.
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| TODO: Check animation values. Reworked the import of materials to use
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| compositeTexMap, rather than CompositeMtl. All textures load through the
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| composite tex map onto the default StdMtl, and all channels of the
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| StdMtl are set to 100% effect. Individual textures are then modified by
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| their "Output" parameter for blending effects etc. TODO: Support correct
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| amount export for textures.
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| *3165 by ewhittom
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| ** FCollada, ColladaMax, ColladaMaya, FViewer: Bug 225: Added the LINEAR
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| type for splines. Although LINEAR interpolation is a special case of
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| BEZIER or NURBS interpolation, one could save a lot of space/memory by
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| using the line spline type. I added the FCDLinearSpline class in
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| FCollada. Max and Maya can now import lines by first converting them to
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| a Bezier or NURBS representation. I tested the whole thing using Bezier
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| curves generated by Max, changing their type to LINEAR, and comparing
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| the linear result with its convex hull.
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| *3152 by ewhittom
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| ** FCollada, ColladaMax and ColladaMaya: Added PREMIUM_NURBS #ifdefs
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| excluding any NURBS surface related code from the non-premium build.
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| Define the PREMIUM macro to enable any premium feature from FCollada.h.
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| *3138 by glaforte
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| ** COLLADA Tools: Fixed some ToPoint renamed to ToVector3. 3dsMax
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| #defines NEVER in the global namespace, so #undef it before using it in
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| our COLLADA enumerators.
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| *3129 by ewhittom
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed NURBS surface import bug. Note: For the moment,
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| some exports containing NURBS surface data will not automatically work
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| on the viewer. Try to re-import the scene back into Max, and then export
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| it again and feed it to the viewer. In most cases it fixes the data.
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| Same thing with Maya, except that instead of re-import/export, just
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| select the incorrect surfaces and perform a default "Rebuild surface" on
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| them.
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| *3115 by staylor
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| ** Fixed very recent bug of morphers failing to link
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| *3109 by glaforte
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| ** Everything: All the code should now use fm::string, fm::vector and
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| fm::map. These structures do not exist in the default namespace anymore.
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| *3095 by staylor
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| ** ColladaMax: Fixed import of bones based on SID. Bones support
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| multiple roots, and different bones on instanced skins. When loading a
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| skinned object, on a 2nd finalize the SkinImporter will check the
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| originally created skin modifier bones list against the bones list
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| provided in the ControllerInstance. If the bones do not match, the
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| Derived Obj referencing the skin is cloned, assigned back to the node,
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| and the import is finalized again onto the new instance. Exporting works
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| in all tested cases. ColladaMaya: to do FCollada: Implemented sub id
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| reading/searching etc. Implemented LinkExport/LinkImport on
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| ControllerInstance in order to hook up local versions of bone lists,
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| based on <skeleton> tag etc
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| *3050 by ewhittom
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| ** Implemented a "best effort" approach to the NURBS texture problem.
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| Max and Maya do not seem to give a lot of importance to NURBS texture
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| since in both documentations NURBS are viewed only as a mean of
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| generating smooth polygon meshes. ColladaMax: I had two choices of data
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| formats for NURBS textures: user defined (raw) and chord length
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| parameterization (CLP) data formats, the later using the CV hull to give
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| a better, more natural, texture coordinate information. Max does not
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| take back its own data, despite what the documentation says. Wether I
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| use raw or CLP format, Max screws the texture information, so I chose
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| not to import it anymore and use the default setting. I'll contact
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| Autodesk to see what's going on in there. The Viewer handles CLP data
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| correctly, but Maya will not be able to import it (the rotation angle is
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| ok, but the offsets and scales are incorrect due to CLP output).
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| ColladaMaya: Added correct texture surface export. NURBS texture
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| information is stored in the material's place2dTexture node. At export
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| time, I build a default texture surface and transform it using the
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| node's simplified rotation, translation and scale parameters.
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| *3050 by ewhittom
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| ** Since these parameters are exported as extra children in the effect's
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| texture element, I don't need to do anything at import time if these
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| parameters are imported as well. Still, I added some logic to get back
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| the parameters from the texture surface if they're missing. FViewer: I
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| added some code to disable the use of placement matrices in FRTexture
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| when the texture is bound to a NURBS surface. Bottom line: Max -> Export
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| works, import does not. Maya -> Export works, import works for all
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| Maya-generated files and some isolated cases of Max-generated files.
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| Viewer -> Can display the export data of both Max and Maya.
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| *3040 by glaforte
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| ** ColladaMax: FS Public Issue #219: Wrong sampled animation start time.
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| Implemented the patch provided by Cory McWilliams.
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