OgreMax Scene Exporter for 3DS Max - About

About

The OgreMax Scene Exporter is a 3DS Max plugin that exports 3DS Max scenes to OgreMax scene files.

### Scene Export

- Nodes - With multiple objects per node
- Cameras - Targeted and free types
- Lights - Targeted and free types
- Entities
- Meshes
- Custom user data - Exports to scene file or a separate data file, definable for the scene, objects, and materials
- Track/look targets
- Sky box, dome, and plane.
- Environment - Fog, ambient color, shadow settings
- Billboard sets and billboards
- Planes
- Externals
- Terrain (using a scene stand-in)
- Particle systems (using a scene stand-in)
- Note tracks
- Models (describes a collection of objects)
- Visibility and query flags
- Static geometries

### Mesh Export

- Pose animation - Supports the Morpher modifier
- Morph animation - Any type of animation can be exported as a morph
- Skeleton animation - Supports the Skin and Physique (Character Studio) modifiers
- Export as triangles, points, or lines (visible edges)
- Multiple meshes can be merged into a single output mesh
- Vertex colors
- Normals, tangents, binormal vectors
- Tangents and binormals - with tangent/binormal or texture0/texture1 semantics
- Multiple texture coordinate channels
- Custom output texture coordinate mapping
- Manual or automatic level-of-detail (LOD) generation
- Skeletons/bones
- Bone attachments
- XML and binary formats
- Instances exported as a single mesh

### Material Support

- Full Ogre material export with a custom OgreMax material type
- Real-time material viewer
- Integration with the 3DS Max 'render to texture' feature, for generating bump, light, and other types of maps

### Bitmap Export

- Copy and convert scene bitmaps to output directory

### Custom Scene Viewports

- Preview scene objects and their animations in real-time
- OgreMax material changes shown instantly within viewports
- Create as many viewports as you want, either embedded within the standard viewports or free-floating above the main user interface

### Other Features

- Terrain height and color map generation
- Cube map generation
- Video file to image file conversion
- Custom helper type with custom icon exporter