[Colladamaya-updates] Weekly Development Build 0.76

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

Hello everyone,

This week saw the start of an important new feature of generic COLLADA
1.4: the export of animation clips. In this new Weekly Development
Build, you can now export the source clip information, where each
source clip exports its curves independantly. A new library was added
to contain the clips and they have <input> elements which point to the
each clip's curves. There was also a bit of refactoring in the plugin,
centered around the animation system.

You can get this new build here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colladamaya/ColladaPluginForMaya-0.76.zi=
p?download

Sincerely,
Guillaume Laforte
Feeling Software Inc.

Recent Changes:
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14/10/05 (Release 0.76)
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=09Animation Clip Export: Moved the curve creation function out of
DaeAnimationLibrary and into DaeAnimationCurve. Added function to
DaeAnimationCurve to apply a sample type and a conversion factor. When
checking for an animation, return the fact that a character was found,
instead. When a character is found, grab the curve from the animation
clip library. Buffer the clip information for each character, to save
processing time and to pre-create the clip data. When comes the time
to export the clip library, actually create all the XML nodes from the
buffered clip information. Changed the animation curve export function
to return the channel Id. Adding a prefix to the animation curve ids,
since they are not unique anymore.

13/10/05
=09(gla...@fe...)
=09Refactoring: Some refactoring of the code to improve writability and
consistency. Removed the useless startUp, cleanUp, reset functions to
use the constructors and destructors instead. General renaming of
stuff: member functions should start with a capital letter. Camel-case
the member variables. Improved the project file organization...
=09Animation Clips: Added the DaeAnimationClipExporter class. Took the
opportunity to get rid of bounding box support, since that's removed
in COLLADA 1.4. Modified the CAnimationHelper::IsAnimated() function
to check for a character node. When the plug is animated, the
animation clip library is called to export the animated plug, which in
turns calls the animation library for each curves to output. Added
DaeAnimationCurve class that will contain one animation curve, and
allow for the interleaving of curves. This will reduce the problem to
a more manageable level. Refactor the animation library to write out
only DaeAnimationCurve object and to produce them.