Softimage dotXSI xchange for Max / News: Recent posts

Added a new version of the max exporter that works with MAX 6.0
This also supports "Export selected" as requested.

enjoy.
Dom

I have added the 3ds Import plugin to the SourceForge site. You can also find it on xsinet along with a bunch of other plugins.

http://www.softimage.com/xsinet

Enjoy!

Dominic

I've made the forums public so that anonymous users can post messages. Post away!

New features / fixes

- Added support for conversion of MorphTargets to XSI ShapeKeys
- Fixed a bug with UV clusters when procedural shader were used on MAX materials
- Fixed annoying memory overrun bug that caused random crashes
- Added batch conversion
- Added cancel key (ESC) :-)

Usage Notes
Version 1.5 of the dotXSI4Max plugin was tested with 3ds max version 5 *only* and MAY NOT WORK WITH VERSION 4, 4.25 etc.
If anyone is interested in re-compiling it under 3ds max 4+ and sending me the changes, I'd really appreciate it.... read more

Fixed bug with sub-materials when used in conjuncture with SI_PolygonLists

I've added support for MAX polygon in this release as well as for global materials.

To further help artist to move their art from 3ds max to Softimage XSI, the version 1.3 of the dotXSI exporter for MAX adds support for the MAX native Skin modifier.

Meshes affected by the Skin modifier will be converted to a XSI envelope.

Some users were having problems with the plugin when used with version 4.25 or 4.26. The 1.2.1 "patch" is actually a straight recompilation with MAX 4.25.

Two important fixes are in this version:

- Option to export relative paths for texture filenames
- Fixed animation length bug when exporting animation to XSI Actions.

I've also created a Dev forum so that people can post their contributions
and/or request features and bug fixes.