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Point Oven 1.51

Lightwave plugins
Supports LW 8.5, 9.0, 9.2 32 and 64 bit (windows)

Maya plugins.
Supports Maya 2008, 8.5, 8.0, 7.0 32 and 64 bit.(windows)

3DS Max plugins.
Supports Max 2008, 9.0, 8.0 32 and 64 bit.(windows)

Modo plugins.
Supports Modo 301. This is BETA. View Readme for docs.(windows)

Point Oven 1.51 requires you to install the Microsoft redistribution package. It is a small setup that installs new vc++ dlls into windows xp. This can be found here:
Redist package x32
Redist package x64


Mac OSX version
Lightwave plugins
Supports LW 9.3.x 32 bit (OSX)

Maya plugins.
Supports Maya 2008 and 8.5, 32 bit.(OSX)







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Point Oven 1.5

Maya plugins
28-02-07 Fixed issues with 8.5 mot file export and compiler problems.
15-02-07 Support for Maya 8.5 added. Added scripting tools. Docs to come..
21-01-07 Fixed mot export bug plus some minor bugs in reading and writing mdd files. Maya 8.5 support coming...
16-09-06 Fixed 25fps baking bug in Maya 7.
31-08-06 Added Maya 8 support.
31-07-06 Added Particle exporter to the main PO script making it accessible from the Point Oven menu.
19-06-06 Fixed two lws writing bugs with the baker. LWS files should be all good now.
26-05-06 Fixed frames per second bug in Maya 7 baker. Not all fps settings were being respected.
10-05-06 Added Maya 6.5 plugins to archive.

XSI plugins
23-07-06 Linux support added! Note that the linux plugins are only available for XSI 5.11.
13-07-06 Cleaned up some bugs with different fps settings on the MDD reader, also improved the entire MDD reader algorithm.
Fixed numerous baking bugs. Added search paths to the psc importer so now referenced assets can be located in alternative locations on disk.
Install this in the same manner as the previous version:
Remove your existing Point Oven folder from the XSI install first.
Start XSI, and drag and drop the addon onto XSI.

IMPORTANT: If you have used any of the PO plugins (except the mdd reader) in a scene already, you must remove its ppg's from the scene before using the new version.

This supports 4.2, 5.1 and 5.11. If you need the seperate dll version you can grab it here.

29-05-06 Fixed evaluation time bug in MDD Reader. Non linear motion blur now works correctly when steps are higher than 1. I have also switched to using addon files instead of supplying seperate dlls.
22-05-06 Added XSI 4.2 addon to the archive.

Lightwave plugins
14-07-06 Fixed PSC export bug.
02-07-06 Fixed several bugs with motion export and lws file writing. Object motions now get properly exported to these formats and light color and intensity gets correctly written to lws files.
22-05-06 LW plugins added. Logging added, global scale activated. Reader updated. License system updated. Works with LW 7, LW8.0, LW8.5. MDD Model plugin included.

Messiah plugins
23-07-06 Fixed crashes when empty paths were given. Added nicer interaction for when specifying files.
11-06-06 Added new mdd reader. The docs are now online also.
14-05-06 Uploaded Messiah baker. This version supports v2.2 and above. Works with new license system. Check readme.

3DS Max plugins
26-09-06 Added search paths to PSC import.
23-09-06 Fixed motion blur bug in mdd reader.
18-09-06 Update! At last! fixed numerous crashes and bugs in psc import. Complete rewrite of the mdd reader, adding full features and speed increase. Added minor fixes to baker.
23-07-06 Added PSC import to max plugins.
10-06-06 Fixed bugs in lwo import. LWO's should display quads correctly when in modifier stack. Mesh smooth modifier should work correctly on mesh. Previous problem meshes should now load correctly.

MDD compiler
This tool takes a sequence of lwo files and compiles them into an mdd file. License free.

Blank dongle license keys.