Version 2.3.3 - July 21, 2010

• Added builds for Ogre 1.8.
• Added support for mesh animated normals for pose and morph animations. Only the Ogre 1.8 builds support this.
• Added 'Animated Normals' setting to the Meshes page of the scene settings dialog, and the Mesh page of the object settings dialog.
• Added 'Entity' page to object settings dialog, along with a 'Skeleton Animation Blending' setting.
• Added support for 'external source' settings in the OgreMax texture unit.
• Modified light diffuse color export to allow negative values. Previously, negative values were clamped to [0, 1].
• Removed builds for Ogre 1.6.
• Fixed a bug with the 'Check Mesh Instance' object setting not being copied when editing settings for multiple objects.
• Fixed a bug with bone scaling being computed relative to its parent.
• Fixed a bug with the default export file not being used when starting an external OgreMax viewer with 'Run With Last Exported File'.
• Fixed a bug with OgreMax material changes sometimes not being reflected in the real-time scene viewports.

Version 2.3.2 - June 21, 2010

• Added 'Check Mesh Instance' object setting, which allows individual meshes to be excluded from consideration when checking for mesh instances.
• Added 'Use Aggressive Focus Region' setting for uniform focused texture shadows.
• Added 'Light Direction Threshold' and 'Optimal Adjust Factor' settings for LISPSM texture shadows.
• Added settings for PSSM shadows.
• Added logic to allow bones that aren't used by a mesh to be exported as empty nodes.
• Added a workaround for Maya returning not-a-number (NaN) coordinates. This situation is very rare.
• Fixed a bug with alpha and shininess being swapped when exporting VRay materials.
• Fixed a bug objects in hidden layers not being ignored when the scene 'Ignore Hidden Objects' setting was enabled.
• Fixed a bug with particle systems not being exported as attached objects for bones.
• Fixed a bug with 'Inverse Destination Alpha' not being included in the list of OgreMax pass source and destination settings.

Version 2.3.1 - May 25, 2010

• Added logic to prevent plane tiling from being exported as 0.
• Added logic to prevent light range from being exported as 0.
• Added logic to OgreMax scene viewports to skip hidden objects if the 'Ignore Hidden Objects' scene settings is enabled. This is similar to how the exporter works.
• Modified the default light range, increasing it from 100 to 10000.
• Modified installer to change the application version's 'Install' text to 'Uninstall' when performing an uninstall.
• Modified OgreMax material initialization to rename bitmaps only during export.
• Modified object removal handler so that it does not change the program's selection set, causing it to slow down.
• Modified the OgreMax scene window to create plane objects for planes rather than treating them as general meshes. This makes the rendering more consistent with how it will look when the scene is loaded after being exported.
• Modified the limits on all controls dealing with world units, increasing the limit by a factor of 100.
• Modified skeleton export to skip transform objects that are the parent of joints. This prevents meshes from being skipped in some situations.
• Modified the tiling settings to be '1' by default rather than '0'.
• Modified the Submesh object type to be selectable regardless of the parent's object type.
• Removed the numerical limit on animation time settings.
• Fixed a bug with mesh merging that caused incorrect skeleton bindings for some meshes. This resulted in seemingly random polygons being rendered.
• Fixed a bug with the separate cubic texture file names requiring an Ogre resource path to be set even though such files are specified with a full path.
• Fixed a bug with an exception/crash occurring when setting a shadow caster or receiver material in the scene settings and then opening an OgreMax scene window.
• Fixed a bug with the mesh animation time scaling setting not being saved.
• Fixed a bug with the program sometimes crashing when opening a file with a floating OgreMax scene window open.
• Fixed a bug with object selection in the OgreMax viewports not selecting the object in the Maya viewports.
• Fixed a bug with objects not being removed from the OgreMax scene viewport when corresponding Maya objects are deleted.

Version 2.3 - April 30, 2010

• Added support for Maya 2011.
• Added scene setting to force meshes to be exported immediately, rather than collected in memory. This reduces the memory consumption of the exporter.
• Added scene camera near/far clip settings to the global settings dialog.
• Added documentation explaining in detail which material types and settings are exported.
• Updated Ogre 1.7.x release to use Ogre 1.7.1.
• Updated DirectX runtimes to February 2010.
• Modified the material and file name fixer functions to work more reliably when using non-Latin characters.
• Modified user data types to support both the 'default' and 'defaultValue' attributes to deal with an inconsistency in the documentation, which used both.
• Modified tangent/binormal data so that it is at the end of a vertex definition (and vertex data) when using the tangent/binormal semantic. This should resolve some issues with older hardware failing to work with some types of mesh data.
• Fixed a bug with material LOD distances being squared with the Ogre 1.7.x release.

Version 2.2.7 - February 25, 2010

• Made some internal changes that may have been causing instability with the 64-bit versions of OgreMax.
• Modified 'Ignore Hidden Objects' scene setting to be true by default.
• Removed language from the documentation that implied GLSL was supported for shader programs. GLSL is currently only supported in the 3DS Max version of the OgreMax Scene Exporter.
• Removed the 'Remove Bone Translations' settings.

Version 2.2.6 - February 16, 2010

• Fixed a bug with render texture settings not being exported.

Version 2.2.5 - February 5, 2010

• Added the OgreMax version to the exported scene file.
• Added 'Create OgreMax Scene Window for Selected Objects' item to the OgreMax menu.
• Updated the Ogre 1.6.x releases to use Ogre 1.6.5. This resolves some instability problems that existed in previous releases.
• Modified the mesh merge feature to use less memory. This allows meshes with lots of detailed submeshes to be merged.
• Modified the OgreMax 'Missing Input Files' checker to handle relative paths.
• Fixed a bug with the object progress counter counting too high when exporting the scene as a mesh.
• Fixed a bug with the log file messages sometimes being indented when they shouldn't be.
• Fixed a mistake in the documentation indicating that OgreMax supports a 'render to texture' feature build into the program. This only applies to the 3DS Max version.

Version 2.2.4 - February 1, 2010

• Modified the 'Check for Mesh Instances' scene setting to be false by default. This will resolve some performance problems people have had when exporting a large scene for the first time.
• Fixed a bug with the scene traversal sometimes using the wrong object, which prevented those objects from being exported as meshes.
• Fixed a bug with the skeleton creation sometimes referencing incorrect bones.

Version 2.2.3 - January 25, 2010

• Added 'Submesh Naming' settings to the Meshes page of the Scene Settings dialog.
• Added 'Always Create New Submeshes When Merging' setting to the Meshes page of the Scene Settings dialog.
• Added more precision to the light attenuation spinner controls.
• Added logic to enable/disable the 'Customize Submeshes' controls in the Object Settings dialog as necessary.
• Fixed a bug with LOD techniques not having any effect in OgreMax materials.

Version 2.2.2 - January 11, 2010

• Added support for VRay materials.
• Added more checks to ensure that degenerate meshes with no faces or vertices are skipped.
• Added more logic to determine whether a shader program should be listed, given the current render system capabilities.
• Added support in user data documents for configuring a 'visibility data item' that is used to hide/show other data items.
• Modified the export of bone initial transforms and keyframes to skip scales that are very close to identity. This makes the exported animations a little smaller.
• Modified the integer shader parameter manual value's limit to [-100000, 100000].
• Fixed a bug with default values not being used when specifying a user data class in one of the user data dialogs.
• Fixed a bug with the bone attachment's exported bone name using the object/node prefix scene setting.

Version 2.2.1 - December 18, 2009

• Added 'Additional Materials' setting to the Materials page of the Scene Settings dialog.
• Added 'Exported Parent' setting to the General page of the Object Settings dialog.
• Added animated root start time override settings to the Mesh Animation Settings dialog.
• Modified the external viewer launcher to include the scene up axis. This fixes a problem with z-up meshes being viewed incorrectly (when the scene is exported as a mesh).
• Modified the material exporter to use the material prefixing when determining file names for materials exported to separate files.
• Fixed a bug that caused some skeletons to deform meshes incorrectly in the OgreMax scene viewports.
• Fixed an issue with some shader program names causing the dynamic shader control logic to generate errors and prevent the shader controls from being created.
• Fixed a bug with materials chosen on the Materials page of the Scene Settings dialog not being saved correctly.

Version 2.2 - November 30, 2009

• There are now two versions of the OgreMax Scene Exporter. One, a free and slightly restricted version intended for non-commercial use. The other, a paid full version intended for commercial use.
• Added feature to export the scene as a mesh. This feature is accessed in the usual way: either by the application export dialog or the OgreMax export dialog.
• Added 'External Viewer' submenu to the OgreMax menu.
• Added a setting to the Global Settings dialog to indicate whether the external viewer should be launched after exporting.
• Removed the 'None' External Viewer setting from the Global Settings dialog. It is now the WinViewer by default.
• Modified the tolerance used for determining mesh instances. It's a little larger now and it's also used when checking mesh instance bounding volumes.
• Modified some of the 'Customize Submeshes' controls to improve usability. The submesh name label dims as necessary and the submesh/material combo box stretches to fill up the entire row.
• Modified the Refresh button of the 'Customize Submeshes' controls so that it only refreshes the texture coordinate sets.
• Modified the installer to remove the WinViewer's newly introduced settings file during uninstallation.
• Fixed a bug with submesh settings being discarded. This bug was introduced when the 'Include Parent Material' bug was fixed in a previous release.
• Fixed a bug with OgreMax material user data files always being created when exporting to a separate material file, even if there is no user data.
• Fixed a bug with submesh names being assigned to the wrong submeshes.
• Fixed a bug with 'Export Selected Objects' crashing when bones are selected.
• Fixed a bug with mesh merging. Poses merged with morphs were being assigned the wrong submesh indexes.
• Fixed a bug with mesh merging. In some situations a crash would occur when merging a mesh into another mesh that had poses.
• Fixed a bug with the manual LOD dialog that allowed you to select a previously selected object.
• Fixed a bug with 'Export Selected Objects' crashing.

Version 2.1.4 - November 15, 2009

• Added support for cylinders as bounding volumes for objects of the 'External' type.
• Added commands for accessing the OgreMax scene, object, and animation settings from script code. These are explained in the documentation under the 'Script Access' section.
• Added documentation for the commands that export the scene from script code.
• Added 'application' value to exported scene files. It identifies the application that exported the scene (3DSMax, Maya, XSI).
• Added logic for displaying a message in the event that there's an error initializing the graphics system.
• Modified the Mesh page of the scene and object settings dialogs so that the 'Fast Export' setting is now called 'Remove Duplicate Vertices'.
• Modified the 'Supported Light Type' controls on OgreMax Pass page of the material editor so that they are only displayed/enabled when they need to be.
• Modified the pass shininess limit to 255.
• Fixed bug with spotlight cone angles being exported incorrectly.
• Fixed bug with the iteration and light type of an OgreMax Pass being exported incorrectly.

Version 2.1.3 - October 26, 2009

• Added scene setting to disable mesh instance checking. This speeds up the export process for large scenes.
• Added functionality to the OgreMax scene viewports that allow the viewport camera's field of view to be modified with the mouse wheel.
• Added script access to the OgreMax scene exporter version.
• Removed support for pivot points since authoring them in the correct way is too restrictive and difficult.
• Modified the 'Generate Tangents' scene setting to be false by default. This should get rid of the problems many people have with Intel graphics chipsets.
• Modified the 'Always Export Skeleton' object setting to be true by default.
• Modified the 'Always Export Poses' object setting to be true by default.
• Modified the way the 'visibility' property is read so that an object is considered hidden if either it or its transform is not visible. Previously, just the object was checked.
• Fixed a bug with the billboard set type always being exported as 'point'.
• Fixed a bug with bounding radius becoming too large when merging meshes.
• Fixed a bug with the 'ignore all' and 'ignore some' radio buttons for the Mesh and Materials pages of the Scene Settings dialog causing the program to crash.
• Fixed a bug with the 'destination color' blending mode being exported correctly for material passes.
• Fixed a crashing bug that sometimes occurred when removing unnecessary bones for merged meshes with the 'Ignore Bones With No Influence' setting enabled.
• Fixed an issue with OgreMax object settings sometimes causing Maya to crash. Object settings are no longer stored with objects. Instead, they are stored in the scene settings.
• Fixed a bug with duplicate object names being allowed in some cases when a scene is exported.
• Fixed a bug with some object settings not being stored correctly moving from an older version of OgreMax to a newer version.
• Fixed a bug with the node animation sample interval not being retrieved correctly.
• Fixed a bug some shader auto-only parameter types causing Maya to crash.
• Fixed a bug with some shader controls appearing as static 'text'. These controls should have been empty.

Version 2.1.2 - September 24, 2009

• Added a mesh animation setting to the Object Settings dialog that allows all skeleton animations to be exported to a separate file.
• Added a mesh animation setting to the Object Settings dialog that allows all skeleton animations to be automatically linked to the mesh if they're being exported to a separate file.
• Modified the mesh animation settings that control whether the animation is exported to a separate file. They are now inherited from the corresponding object settings.
• Modified the layout of the Mesh Animations page of the Object Settings dialog.
• Fixed a bug with separate skeleton animations all containing the first exported skeleton animation for an object.
• Fixed a bug with mesh and node animations not being copied when multiple objects are selected and edited in the Object Settings dialog.
• Fixed a bug that caused the exporter to crash once in a while when exporting OgreMax materials with passes that referenced shader programs that are not compatible with the current render system.
• Fixed an issue with the progress dialog's status window not scrolling all the way to the bottom for newly logged messages.
• Fixed an issue with temporary dag poses not being deleted after export.

Version 2.1.1 - September 11, 2009

• Added submesh naming to the Mesh page of the Object Settings dialog.
• Added support for WASD/arrow controls in the OgreMax Scene viewports.
• Added mesh animation setting to export skeleton animations to separate files.
• Fixed problem with before/after export commands not showing programs that have user interfaces.
• Fixed bug with 'None' cull mode setting not being exported.
• Fixed bug that caused scaled mesh instances to not be detected as instances.
• Fixed a problem with some characters being removed from mesh and material names.
• Fixed a bug with material references not being correctly maintained.

Version 2.1 - August 28, 2009

• The source code is now available for licensing in the OgreMax store.
• Added support for Maya 2010.
• Added utility in OgreMax menu to show objects that have duplicate names.
• Modified pose export to ignore offsets that have no effect (all zeroes).
• Fixed the pose export so that the 'index' references the appropriate submesh.
• Fixed the download archive file. It had a '.rar' extension but was being encoded as a '.7z' file. The extension of all archives is now '.7z'

Version 2.0.6 - August 11, 2009

• Added the 'No Material Name' setting to the Materials page of the Scene Settings dialog.
• Added export setting to indicate whether light is on.
• Removed OgreMax viewport renderer.
• Modified the exporter to use the mesh name in the Object Settings dialog as the skeleton name, if the mesh name has been defined.
• Fixed a bug with manual LODs causing a crash in the OgreMax scene viewports. LODs are (and should have been) disabled in the viewports.
• Fixed a bug with mesh names not being checked for invalid characters.
• Fixed a bug with the 'Morph Whole Object' setting in the Mesh Animation settings dialog not be properly retrieved from user interface.
• Fixed a bug with the instanced geometry helper object not being exported.
• Fixed a bug that caused the user interface to sometimes lock up while an OgreMax scene window is open along with an OgreMax dialog.

Version 2.0.5 - August 2, 2009

• Fixed a bug with instance checking often causing a crash during export.

Version 2.0.4 - July 30, 2009

• Added support for rigid skins. Previously only smooth skins were supported.
• Added 'Remove Bones With No Influence' setting to the Mesh Animations page of the Object Settings dialog. When enabled, this setting results in bones that have no vertex influence being removed from the skeleton. Child bones of removed bones are parented to the removed bone's parent.
• Modified the scene 'Fast Export' setting, making it true by default.
• Fixed a bug that prevented spinner controls from being traversed with the tab key.
• Fixed a bug with the way mesh instances are detected.
• Fixed a bug with the mesh bounding radius being 2x too large.
• Fixed a bug with manual mesh radio button on the Mesh LOD page of the Object Settings dialog causing a crash.

Version 2.0.3 - July 21, 2009

• Added logic to detect whether to include skeletons for mergable submeshes. Previously, you had to manually select Always Export Skeletons for submeshes.
• Added the following OgreMax pass settings (corresponding to the Ogre settings): normalise_normals, transparent_sorting, iteration_depth_bias, alpha_to_coverage, light_scissor, light_clip_planes, illumination_stage, polygon_mode_overrideable.
• Modified 'Export Selected Objects' so that it exports all the valid selected hierarchies of objects, ignoring those that are disconnected from an ancestor that is also being exported. Previously, the top-most objects of selected objects (and all their children) were exported.
• Increased the number of texture units in an OgreMax pass to 16.
• Fixed a bug that occurred when merging two meshes with animations that shared the same skeleton. This bug had previously caused the exporter to crash.

Version 2.0.2 - July 14, 2009

• Added bitmap prefix to the Materials page of the Scene Settings dialog.
• Fixed a bug with all skies being removed from the OgreMax viewports when one is removed from the application.
• Fixed a bug with render texture names not including the material name prefix in material scripts but including them in the scene file. They are now always included.
• Fixed a bug with the 64-bit OgreMax viewers generating an exception when loading a scene. This bug was the result of two bugs in Ogre.
• Fixed a bug that resulted in mesh instances not being detected for meshes with multiple materials.
• Fixed a bug with shader parameters not being set correctly for the Ogre 1.7.0 build.

Version 2.0.1 - July 9, 2009

• Fixed a bug with mesh skeletons that caused meshes to be stretched to infinity.
• Fixed the documentation, replacing references to 'Skin', 'Physique', and 'Morpher' with constructs specific to Maya.
• Fixed a bug with the sample type not being set correctly into the user interface on the Node and Mesh Animations settings pages of the Object Settings dialog.

Version 2.0 - July 4, 2009

• Released to the world. The version number is chosen to match the 3DS Max version's number.