[Colladamaya-updates] Weekly Development Build 0.72

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

Hello everyone!

This week's work was centered on improving Maya 7.0 support. Color sets
are now used, in Maya 7.0 to import per-vertex colors. Multiple color sets
can now be exported also. If you have Maya 6.X files containing vertex colo=
rs
that are you trying to export into Collada, please first ensure that they
are using color sets correctly, otherwise you may loose this information.
The Mac XCode project now has a functioning Maya 7.0 target.

There's been a few interested bug fixes, also, related to transformations:
the <skew> element angle is now in degrees and the order of the rotations
is now taken into consideration only once when importing non-ColladaMaya
documents. With our work on the Collada exporter for 3dsMax, expect a
much improved inter-operability between Maya and Max!

You can download this new Weekly Development Build here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colladamaya/ColladaPluginForMaya-0.72.zi=
p?download

As always, we welcome your feedback, issues, questions and/or user patches.

Have a good weekend!

Guillaume Laforte
Feeling Software Inc.
http://www.feelingsoftware.com

Recent Changes:
16/09/05 (Release 0.72)
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=09Tranforms: Fixed the import of 3dsMax' scale-basis change.

15/09/05
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=09Corrected out MAC's line end on most files.
=09SourceForge #1287883: Maya 7.0 Color Sets. Implemented the export:
check the number of color sets in the mesh, match the color set names
with the names in the plugs to identify the correct base plug for each
logical index. Grab the per-vertex colors directly from the plugs and
export any animation curves attached. Since the number of color sets
is not previous known, I cannot create the sources correctly, so I
split my export function into two: one that collects the names and the
base plugs, and a second function to collect the color data and
animations for one color set.
=09SourceForge #1287883: Maya 7.0 Color Sets. Tested with one and two
color sets. Implemented the import of color sets on Maya 7.0. Import
both vertex and face-vertex colors together, using the plugs directly
and check for animations. Tested import with Maya 6.5 data and with
old Collada animated data.

14/09/05
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=09SourceForge #1290964: This issue is with the rotation order change,
which is applied twice when 'out-of-order' rotations do not sport the
expected "sid" parameters. The ColladaMaya importer will now try to
recognize the axis before applying the rotation on the transformation
matrix, so that animations and the rotation order can be evaluated
correctly.
=09Small Fix: Fixed the skew angles to be in degrees.
=09MAC Maya 7.0: Fixed linking target problems for Maya 7.0. Added PCH
compilation through StdAfx.h