[Colladamaya-updates] Weekly Development Build 0.85 Released!

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

Hello everyone,

Jian Zhang has done quite a bit of work on ColladaMaya, last week. This
weekly release includes the export of bindings for ColladaFX: including
lights and animations and brings forward the first version of the import of
the ColladaFX node and a first prototype version of the import/export of
splines. If you are interested in the import/export of splines, please try
this prototype out and tell us what you think!

Personally, I've added instantiation to the FS import classes, in order to
provide for the increased complexity of COLLADA 1.4 with regards to
instantiation. This simply allows us, for now, to bind materials through
semantics and to match textures and texture coordinate sets at
instantiation, rather than using the ordering of the TEXCOORD inputs in the
geometry. I've also fixed a few issues: the import of animated spot light
colors, multi-texturing. I've also fixed some last validation issues with
respect to the recently ratified COLLADA 1.4 schema.

I would also like to ask for a sample of your work. With the recent adoption
and ratification of COLLADA 1.4 by Khronos and our own website being
updated, we would appreciate if you could share with us screenshots of your
work that could be used in marketing materials, in relation with COLLADA,
for both Feeling Software and Khronos. Full credits would be given to the
authors when their work is used.

You can get this new Weekly Development Build here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colladamaya/ColladaMaya-0.85.zip?download

Sincerely,
Guillaume Laforte
Feeling Software
http://www.feelingsoftware.com

Recent Changes:
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09/01/06 (Release 0.85)
	(gla...@fe...)
	Integrated the recent FS import classes change related to
instantiation, which fixes multi-texturing export and import
	Fixed the export as triangles regression and animated spot light
colors.
	Validation testing: <instance_X> moved above <extra> in scene graph.
"sid" attribute in profile_COMMON moved to the <color> and <float> elements,
rather than <diffuse>, <ambient> and such. Renamed <bind_material><technique
profile="X"><material> to
<bind_material><technique_common><instance_material>.

04/01/06
	(zh...@fe...)
	Spline: Add importer and exporter for NURBS curves.

29/12/05
	(zh...@fe...)
	ColladaFX: Parameter animation supported by exporter and importer.

26/12/05
	(zh...@fe...)
	ColladaFX Importer: Set parameters ans bind lights. Mesh data I/O
added. Set default visibility to 1.

24/12/05
	(zh...@fe...)
	ColladaFX Importer: Import .dae file with Cg profile into Maya, and
create a ColladaFX shader node, load the vertex and fragment shader files,
then import the images.

23/12/05
	(zh...@fe...)
	ColladaFX Exporter: Create and bind effect parameters using the
latest version of the schema. <newparam> and <technique> is under
<profile_CG>, <bind> <param> under <shader>.