[Colladamaya-updates] Weekly Development Build 0.84

[Guillaume L. <gla...@fe...>]

Hello everyone,

This early Weekly development build will be the last release of 2005. I =
look forward to 2006 and I would like to wish you all a lot of success =
for 2006, helped in part by COLLADA and ColladaMaya.

This week, I fixed a few validation issues, reported by Rich Forster of =
SCEE whom I would like to thank for his help. I fixed the export of =
texture coordinate sets on skinned characters and the import of polygon =
holes. More importantly, I took the time to bring ColladaMaya to same =
support for relative file paths that was implemented in the COLLADA =
tools for 3dsMax. I know this is a feature that has been waiting for too =
long, if you try it out, please give me feedback on issue or possible =
improvements.

You can get this new release here: =
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colladamaya/ColladaPluginForMaya-0.84.=
zip?download

Happy holidays from everyone at Feeling Software!

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

Recent Changes:
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21/12/05 (Release 0.84)
 (gla...@fe...)
 Relative File Paths: Based on the 3dsMax COLLADA tools code, refactor =
the export of urls to support a "relative file paths" option. =
Verified/refactored the code paths that export filenames to ensure they =
all pass through the same code: textures, FX includes and XRef. Note =
that <source_data> is kept absolute intentionally.
    Fixed the import of holed polygons.

20/12/05
 (gla...@fe...)
 Merged in the FS import classes change from 3dsMax plug-ins: remove =
duplicate per-vertex animation indices, when caching them in the source.
 <skeleton> should contain the skeleton ID as text, not a 'url' =
attribute.
 Duplicate, for <node> elements, the ID into the SID, in order to follow =
the COLLADA 1.4 specification for skeletons.
 Fixed the missing texture coordinate on export of skinned characters.