* spelling fix in NiAVObject (SetCollsion -> SetCollision) - affects public interface, however I did not find SetCollsion in any of the plugins so nothing should be broken

Laying the groundwork for Niflib to be able to work on systems with different endian types.  All Read/Write functions now take NifInfo structures which are based by const reference.  These are also passed into the NifStream functions so they will have access to the requested endian type of the NIF as well.  Also added endian detection and swapping functions.

* removed NIFLIB_API from TYPE in bhkEntity.h

* NiSkinInstance hiding fix
* looks like everything works; now DEBUG=False in scons to reduce library size

Moved TypeConst function implementation out of header file. Hopefully should fix GCC visibility issue.
Fixed GetIDString virtual function missmatch that was causing the name not to show up when the function was called from a NiObjectRef.
Added Python-specific operator functions to Ref to prevent the wrapper from crashing on Null Refs.

To allow for DLL mode, the IDENTITY constants in the Matrix classes were made private and are now accessible through the Identity() function of each matrix class.  This may affect the 3ds Max plug-in as well.

Fixed Niflib DLL compile.  All public functions should now be marked with either NIFLIB_API or NIFLIB_HIDDEN.  May have missed a few here or there but they should be noticed eventually.

Realized that Niflib was not compiling in DLL mode, so started working on fixing that.  All NiObject classes need to have NIFLIB_API and NIFLIB_HIDDEN put on each public function, rather than marking the whole class.  Still a lot left to change, but niflib.cpp and ComplexShape.cpp both compile without errors in DLL mode now.

  header and NiNode for now)

* created a common swig interface "common.i" to be used by all modules

* smart pointers now use the __call__() method, again this reduces the
  wrapper size

* removed __str__() from the niflib API as it does not belong there,
  instead renamed asString() to __str__() in the common.i interface

* version constants now also belong to the Niflib namespace

* SWIGFLAGS are now defined through scons environment, so we only need
  to set them once

* extra settings "-fcompact" and "-fvirtual" to SWIGFLAGS to reduce
  wrapper size

* enabled niflib as a shared library under non-win32 platforms
  (still need to find a solution for win32) under scons

* removed "pyniflib.h" and instead added CreateNiNode wrapper to ninode.i

* renamed "pyniflib.i" to "pyniflib.i_old" in case I forgot to port
  something to the new modularized system; to be removed in future

Changed some functions to use pointers instead of Ref templates.
Updated to latest XML description.

ComplexShape::Split now cuts out weights below 0.1 and normalizes the result.
Fixed a bug which could cause NiSkinInstance to try to call a function on a NiNode that was in the midst of destruction.
Removed some cout statements.

BindSkin no longer automatically clears transforms between the mesh and the root. Instead this can be done with the ApplySkinOffset function after all the shapes are in place.

Generated array code now prints 20 items per 2D array in total when verbose is off.
Fixed duplicated Read call.  All FFvt3R demo files can now be read by Niflib.

Added NiGeometry::ApplyTransforms function to automatically zero out the transforms of a mesh and apply them to its vertices.
Added NiGeometryData::Transform function to apply an arbitrary transform to all vertices and normals of a mesh (used by above).
Added NiNode::PropagateTransform function to apply a NiNode's local transform to its children and then zero it out.
Fixed NiTriShapeData to properly set numTriangles when SetTriangles is called.
NiGeometry::BindSkin function now automatically propagates transforms of NiNodes between the root and the meshes and then applies those transforms to the vertices, making the NiSkinData overall transform unnecessary.
Removed "set root to scene root" option as it is no longer necessary.

Replaced GetSkinInfluencedVertices function with GetSkinDeformation function which takes in references to two vectors and fills them with the skin deformed vertices and normals
Added constructor to Matrix44 to convert from Matrix33.

Updated from XML.  Improves support for FFvt3R, but there are still problems that down show up in NifSkope.

Updated from XML, adding NiClodSkinInstance and fixing NiClodData.  Niflib can now open all Freedom Force NIF files.

Corrected Shape/particle hierarchy by adding NiGeometry and NiGeometryData.  This is the correct hierarchy and having particles come back as derived from NiTriBasedGeomData was causing problems.
Commented out printf commands in triangle stripper.

Replaced _WRITE, _READ, _STRING, AND _FIXLINKS defines with the corresponding internal function call.
Replaced STANDARD_INTERNAL_FUNCTIONS with the internal function signatures.
Made my Doxygen config file use relative paths and added it to SVN so everyone can generate the same documentation for themselves.
Removed includes WZ added to ComplexShape.  These were not missing, they are up to the user to include if they wish.

Fixed the array bug by reversing the template arguments and re-doing the declarations in the Python script.

Added support for sub version 4 headers, object storage, and link method.  Some objects like NiNodes already read correctly.

1. Update NiStencilProperty based on Shon's changes
2. Rewrote large chunks of WriteFileGroup related routines.
3. Added a WriteNifTree which allows for multiple roots (not exposed publically)
4. Added option to BindSkin to scene instead of skeleton root.
5. Fixed bug in RemoveController
6. Added helpers to NiControllerManager for sequence management
7. Propegated user_version in routines which take a version

2. Fix PCH project settings.
3. Add NifSkope base partitioning algorithm
4. Add ability to use TriStripper instead of NvStripper for tristripdata
5. Sync with XML and equivalent changes.

Updated method names to use 'LOD'.
Added documentation comments.

Updated NiScreenLODNode in Nif.xml to use 'ProportionLevels'.