[Colladamaya-updates] Beta ColladaMaya for COLLADA 1.4 Released

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

Hello everyone,

Just a short email to announce a first Beta version of ColladaMaya for
COLLADA 1.4. There were just a few fixes, this week, related to ColladaFX
and ColladaPhysics, done by Zhang and Christian. Overall, the plug-in should
be very stable and quite capable. Please give it a try and send us your
feedback!

Please note that the plug-in supports both ColladaFX through the CgFX
plug-in for Maya and the new ColladaFX plug-in for Maya, written by Zhang,
available at:
http://www.feelingsoftware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&
Itemid=69&lang=en

You can download this new release here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colladamaya/ColladaMaya-0.86.zip?download

Have a great week-end!
Sincerely,
Guillaume Laforte
Feeling Software Inc
http://www.feelingsoftware.com

Recent Changes:
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20/01/06 (Release 0.86)

17/01/06
	(cla...@fe...)
	Physics: Use <half_extent> instead of <size> for physics boxes.
Re-ordered some elements to respect the 1.4 schema.

16/01/06
	(gla...@fe...)
	Merged in a fix from Kevin Thacker about the ordering of the UV
sets.
	Merged in the Unicode-related changes to the FS import classes from
the Viewer branches.

11/01/06
	(cla...@fe...)
	Added a routine to insert child node sorted in alphabetical order of
the element's name. Insert the physics scene and visual scene instances
according to alphabetical sequence. Use <instance_physics_scene> instead of
<physics_scene>. No longer prefix physics model references using "./". This
fixes all of the physics validation problems with the nxTest1 test scene.
	Replaced <linear_velocity> by <velocity>. Fixed minor compilation
errors related to Cg. Was able to succesfully export a few Nima scenes that
didn't have constraints, including the carcrash demo.

10/01/06
	(gla...@fe...)
	Merged in changes to the FS import classes from the FeelingViewer.

	(cla...@fe...)
	Physics: Since Collada 1.4 was fully ratified last week, I started
to update ColladaMaya's physics export code to respect the latest schema.
Lots of small details needed to be updated. Fixed export problems that cause
schema validation errors, e.g. <time_step> instead of <timestep>, <gravity>
comes before <time_step>, false instead of FALSE, true instead of TRUE,
<technique_common> after <physics_models>. 

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