v0.7.2

Features

• Added support for exporting tangents generated by Blender
• clean up tangent export mess & add parity support
• use byte vertex colour format if possible
• drop no longer supported "Reorganise Buffers"
• simplify tangent generation UI

Bugfixes

• xml_convert(): corrected handling of spaces in paths
• ensure exporting does not modify editor object
• ensure log file always ends up in output dir
• Fixed to include submeshes, custom uvs and vertex colors
• Fix issue #35
• fix texture updated check like in 2.8
• fix use_transparency export
• fix vertex colour export
• Respect the start & end of frames set by the NLA

v0.7.1

Compatibility with Ogre-next (V2)

The Exporter will now automatically use OgreMeshTool if available to directly export OgreV2 meshes.
It still uses OgreXMLConverter otherwise.

Features

• Export custom normals
• Export normals for blend shapes
• restore ability to launch a ogre mesh previewer
• only name passes if explicitly requested

Bugfixes

• Fix detection of underlying tool
• fix entity naming in dotscene. see #28
• fix exporting of packed images (.png inside .blend)
• fix logging config & logging.debug calls
• fix object merge by group on export
• fix parsing of ogre materials/ programs and make it less verbose
• Fix typo on property name
• Bugfix: mesh file gets a different name from reference in .scene file if object data has different name than the object itself
• check OgreXMLConverter return code and place log in dst folder
• Corrected looking up the vertex group name by its index. (#26)
• shadeless materials still can use vertex_color_paint
• only include missing_material when needed to avoid duplicate materials
• Don't display the Windows GPF dialog if OgreXmlConverter dies
• apply clean_object_name to .scene and merged .material files as well
• make vertex groups name retrieval more robust
• Making sure that config is synced with user preferences

Changes

• drop nvidia dds utilites config options
• drop standard properties from advanced tab
• Prevent the addon from running if no converter has been found
• use 'alpha_blend' colour_op in some more cases
• use "use_shadeless" setting instead of custom "ogre_lighting"

v0.7

compared to 0.6.2

• compatibility with blender 2.7
• put exported .mesh and .materials in the same location as the .scene
• fix setting location of the ogre tools through the UI
• fix exporting of armatures
• fix exporting with seperate_materials=False
• .scene exporter
  • do not export empty BGE nodes
  • comply to the dotScene DTD
  • do not offset lights twice (parent node & position)
  • use standardized userData node instead of custom attributes
  • drop unsupported and non-standard colourShadow
  • write non standard metadata as comment
  • do not duplicate light direction using light.normal
  • bump format version to "1.1"