[Colladamaya-updates] Official Collada 1.3 version 1.3.2 (0.67) released

[Guillaume L. <gui...@gm...>]

Hi everyone!

As we're getting closer to a refined Collada 1.4 specification,
the ColladaMaya translator is getting pretty stable and bugfree!
If you were at Siggraph, I hope you enjoyed the show floor and the
Collada presentation.

This new version includes one fix for the import of parented skinned
meshes and a few performance optimizations. I would like to thank
Kevin Thacker for the IK&constraint optimization.

You can get this new version at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colladamaya/ColladaPluginForMaya-0.67.zi=
p?download

Sincerely,
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Guillaume Laforte
Feeling Software Inc.

Recent Changes:
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10/08/05 (Release 1.3.2 - 0.67)
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=09Parented Skinned Character: Fixed issue where a parented mesh, when
skinned, became corrupted or re-import. This was due to one of Maya's
fun invisible node: geometryMatrix, on the skin cluster that I wasn't
setting, so it's now fixed.

09/08/05
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=09Performance Improvement: Suggested by Kevin Thacker, implemented the
buffering of the sampled animations, processing them together doing
one MGlobal::viewFrame for each sample time. MGlobal::viewFrame turned
out to be very slow, as it includes a full rendering, use
MAnimControl::setCurrentTime instead. Fixed some issue with baked
transform matrices, where they have to be sampled if any one of the
component for the node has to be sampled.

06/08/05
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=09Performance Improvement: Performance speed-up in array list element
allocation. It was wrongly incrementing  the element count by one.
Performance speed-up in the <polygons> node parsing: traverse through
the nodes only once, this spares us a large amount of unnecessary
allocations.