[Colladamaya-updates] Collada plug-in for Maya, May 18th 2005

[Christian L. <cla...@fe...>]

Hello everyone,

	I hope everyone what attended E3 enjoyed it.

	On our side, Guillaume implemented some more conformance test fixes,
while I added a new UI for physics shapes manipulation. More details below.

	Regards,

Christian


The very latest version is available from:

http://www.feelingsoftware.com/colladamaya/LatestColladaPluginForMaya.zip

Latest changes:

18/05/05
	(cla...@fe...)
	Physics: Created a physics shape UI and a bunch of scripts, to
facilitate the creation, placement and visualization of physics shapes. The
mel script that displays the UI is called physicsShowShapesWindow(). More
details to eventually be documented in the readme. Note that physics shapes
are not yet exported.
	Physics: Fixed a run-time warning, due to adding the shapeType
attribute twice (the first time implicitly as part of enumAttr.create()).

17/05/05
	(gla...@fe...)
	Conformance Test 06-006-00: Camera Animation. Adding support for
custom formulas when exporting and importing plug values. This is needed for
the export of the horizontal field of view, which is the result of a formula
including two possibly animated plug values. Implemented the export/import
of the camera parameters animation: YFOV, ZNEAR, ZFAR, LEFT, RIGHT. Using
plugs directly on the dependency graph, force the creation of the animation
curve for non-keyable attributes. Resolved a small regression during
translation animation sampling.
	Conformance Test 06-005-00: Light Animation. Added export/import of
animations of the following light parameters: color, angle, falloff_scale.
Penumbra and intensity are not within the 1.3.0 specifications.
	Conformance Test 06-017-00: Per-Vertex Position Animation. I assume
that the targets for per-vertex animations can be indexed as each element in
the vertex list in mesh of  the geometry library using the matrix notation.
Implemented export and import of the vertex position animations, by
refactoring the animation library class to allow for the export/import of
plug arrays, with a given count. Unlock the vertex normals by default so
that the animation looks correct. Verified with the conformance tests for
possible regressions.