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Name: COLLADAMaya NextGen Purpose: COLLADA exporter for Maya Last updated: December 19th 2008 Current version: 0.8.2 Status: Beta OS: Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Report bugs Product info Maintainer: NetAllied Systems GmbH Contact for technical issues: [email protected]
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COLLADAMaya NextGen is a COLLADA exporter plug-in for Autodesk Maya.

ColladaMaya NextGen 0.8.2

19 December 2008

First release of the next generation Maya plug-ins packaged as Microsoft Installers (*.msi). Available are installers for 32bit and 64bit Windows.

COLLADAMaya_0.8.2_x64.msi includes plug-ins for:

• Maya 2008
• Maya 2009

COLLADAMaya_0.8.2_x86.msi includes plug-ins for:

• Maya 2008
• Maya 2009

COLLADAMaya_0.8.2_bin_osmac.tar.gz includes plug-ins for:

• Maya 2008
• Maya 2009

ColladaMaya NextGen 0.8.0.87

12 August 2008

First release of the next generation plug-in offering higher performance data export. In contrast to the existing COLLADA exporters for Maya, this new plug-in does not store the COLLADA document into an intermediate data model but writes it directly to file. This leads to a dramatic reduction of memory consumption and to much better performance.

Already implemented features

• Scene graph
  • Transform nodes
  • Multiple object instances

• Geometry
  • Mesh
    • POSITION, VERTEX, NORMAL, TEXCOORD (multiple also), COLOR, GEOTANGENT, GEOBINORMAL
    • POLYLIST, POLYGONS (also with holes) or TRIANGLES

• Materials / Effects
  • Texture and color materials
  • Materials Phong, Blinn and Lambert

• Animation
  • Rotation / Transformation
  • Sampled animation
  • Expressions
  • Animation clips

• Instances
  • Visual scenes
  • Geometries
  • Materials
  • Effects
  • Animations (clips)
  • Nodes

See also

• ColladaMaya