Changes for v1.34 are: Adjustable density of trees from camera distance, optional drawing of distribution maps corners to adjust it more easily, Minimum Tree Separation lower limit set to 1%, fixed a bug with exclude spline.

Changes for v2.0 are: New parameters for random transformations: translation, rotation, scale and materials.

Here's wishing all visitors to this site a very merry Christmas. I hope that everyone gets what they wanted. All the best, Dave

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A special procedural plugin that allows fine touch-up smoothing of hard edges, so your object can become not just photo-realistic, but much more real-life looking. This build will expire on January 31st, 2001.

Changes for v2.6 -18 are: A load of bugfixes... You can read the complete list here.

PolygonEater P2 is a polygon reduction tool developed by Sony Corporation. It can automatically reduce the number of polygons to the number specified by the user at very high speed, while maintaining the characteristics and overall shapes of models. You can apply for a one month trial license here.

A scene exporter for the upcoming Shout3d v2.0. Supports polygon mesh export, all texture mappings and coordinates, standard materials, directional and spot lights, animation, Biped and Physique, and much more.

Changes for v1.2 are: Options for exporting Hierarchy tabs, Object type, Object Name, Color and Coordinates. The coordinates are in world space and in current frame. Make sure the time slider is set to 0 when animated objects origin position should be exported.

This plugin material uses the Smoothing Groups associated with a mesh to assign a sub-material. A useful addition/alternative to Multi/Sub Object Selection.

Changes for v2.6 -19 are: Fixed bug with photon mapping and CSG objects, fixed bug with area light source sampling with multiple pieces of area light geometry, fixed bugs with -d option window display (Win32), various Win32 documentation updates, added rendrib.lib to the distribution for native compiling on Win32.

Changes for v2.6 -20 are: DSO/DLL shaders under Windows, support of RiPoints primitive, support of RiSubdivisionMesh primitive, irradiance computations (a new method of global illumination), photon mapping for caustics, and a large number of bug-fixes.

A Direct X-file exporter with support for Physique modifiers, released as part of the Direct X 8.0 SDK. Includes the source-code.

This is the free evaluation version of MAX Havok Pro. Note that this has a number of feature restrictions: you will be permitted to create 1 cloth object, 1 soft object, 1 water object and up to 8 rigid bodies. To gain unrestricted access to all the features you will need to purchase a full user license.

Changes for v4.0.2 are: Conversion and export of Lightwave, Amapi, Truespace files to Max. The plugin itself hasn't really changed, almost all of the changes are in the browser. The demo version is now fully functional.

Changes for v1.06 are: Bugfix - precomputed lighting was not exported. Bugfix - the texture stretching was quite messed up in v1.05 due to some internal tests I forgot to remove. Now it's fixed, and you have a new option in the Max Texture Size droplist : Nearest power of 2. This tells Flexporter to downsample the textures to the nearest power of two in both width and height, which allows non-square textures to be exported in a hardware-friendly size. Shapes are now exported.