niflib: removed -fpermissive flag from Makefile and fixed 32 bit pointer casts for 64 bit build (reported by guidoj, fixed with hints from Alphax, see issue #2788607)

   - Fix issue with exporting Skin data causing missing vertexes in nifskope
   - add helper methods for collision related export.
   - fix crashes when exporting animation

Separated reference counting features of NiObject into new RefObject class.  This way they won't be buried in the obj folder.
Started adding NormalizeKeys functions to data objects, interpolators, and controllers that deal with keys.  Not yet finished.

Finished new MatTexCollection helper class which makes it possible to manipulate material properties and texture objects with the same classes regardless of the intended NIF version.
Realized that only read was implemented for files with version < 3.3.0.13, so implemented write for those old versions as well.

Since there seemed to be no way to make pre-main initialization work for statically linking the library, I went back to using a CPP file that includes all the NiObject files and registers each one with the ObjectRegistry.

Moved Object Registration/Creation functionality into new ObjectRegistry class.  Hopefully this fixes the issue with the object map not being initialized yet since it is a static member of the class and should theoretically be initialized before code in functions of that class can be executed.  Seems to work for me, but I'll wait until Tazpn tests it to declare it fixed.

Updated Niflib to the latest XML.  This significantly improves the hierarchy and adds support for BSWindModifier.

Updated to the latest XML, which adds support for NiBinaryVoxelExtraData, NiBinaryVoxelData, NiPSysCollider, NiBone, NiPSysSphericalCollider, and NiTriShapeSkinController.
Removed erroneous bhkMeshShape object.
Added support in the version parsing functions for versions such as "3.03" which were being parsed as "3.3.0.0" before.  These will now be parsed as "3.0.3.0."
All Bridge Commander demo NIF files other than those that contain voxel 3D textures can now be read.
All DAoC demo NIF files except those of version 2.3 and those that do not appear to store NIF data can now be read.

Added 10.0.1.2 to the list of "supported" versions.

Fixed several bugs that were preventing support for old 3.1 and below files from working.  Many of these can now be loaded.
Added version 3.1 to list of "supported" versions.

Updated Niflib to the latest XML which adds support for bhkMeshShape, NiMultiTextureProperty, NiRawImageData, and NiSequence.

Objects now have a Create methods and register themselves in the global object map with pre-main initialization, making obj_factories.cpp obsolete.

Re-exposed TYPE constants and marked them NIFLIB_API, making the TypeConst function obsolete.  You now must use NiObject::TYPE instead of NiObject::TypeConst() again.

More documentation improvements.  Added documentation to NiDynamicEffect-derived objects, removed some obsolete examples, and replaced remaining references to "block" with "object" wherever possible.

Moved ListAncestors and FindCommonAncestor helper functions from inside of NiGeometry to public interface.

* gcc BIG_ENDIAN and LITTLE_ENDIAN name clash fix

Finished up preliminary endian support.  Theoretically it should be possible to read a big-endian file on a little-endian system, but it is not possible to do the opposite, or to create a little-endian file due to issues with the header needing to switch endian types int he middle of the generated code and always read the bytes that make up the NIF version in the same order.

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.

number of objects are supported so far, to reduce the size of the
wrapper. Details:

* set property eolstyle:native on .cpp and .h files for better windows + linux 
  support

* added small cpp file for quick nif read and write test (for
  debug purposes)

* fixed memory leak due to array of non-fixed sized objects:
  Header.copyright (caused segfaults under GCC)

* disabled pragma warning on NvTriStripObjects.cpp

* fixed undefined behaviour of map[...] = ... map.size() ... in
  niflib.cpp (caused segfaults under GCC)

* cleaned up SConstruct file
  - if DEBUG is false, TUNE is assumed
  - added TEST option

* workaround in pyniflib.h for ReadNifTree (need to find better solution!)

* swig wrapper interface: NiNode, NiAVObject, and NiObjectNET are
  fully supported (nothing else, for now)

* now using unittest for python test script(s)

Properly capitalized include file names in niflib.cpp.

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o Exporter
  - Add BSX flags for NIF exports when animation is involved for Oblivion.
  - Worked around what appears to be a bug in the Bezier Scale controller.
  - Change time intervals when exporting MW style animation.
  - Fixed bug with missing reference in Footer in MW exported .KF files.
  - Call routine to apply skin offsets to Skin data (required for MW?)

o Importer

  - Invoke Max Script in Max 5 so that we can import Note Tracks

Fixed strange bug.  All files now load again, and Niflib is now destroying objects properly and reporting the right number of Objects from NiObject::NumObjectsInMemory.

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.

Several fixes to XML and Niflib to enable all my files from Freedom Force (except with NiClodData), Oblivion, CivIV, Morrowind, Zoo Tycoon 2, and DAoC to load in Niflib and NifSkope.
Includes the two strange Oblivion files with version 3.3.0.13 and version 10.0.1.2.

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