MaxPlugins 0.1.5
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This plugin set currently consists of an exporter, importer and a utility
plugin. This is a early release, so expect it to be buggy.

Report problems and ask questions here:

http://niftools.sourceforge.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=6

A tutorial on how to use the exporter and utility plugins can be found here:

http://www.silgrad.com/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=2477

Enjoy!

Additional Notes
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Set the layer value to "NonCollidable", if you want to be able to walk through
your objects, while still being able to activate them.

If your collision mesh comes out deformed, go to the utilities tab,
choose "Reset XForm" and click "Reset Selected". This should fix it.

Change log
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0.1.5
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o Importer
- Updated with latest version NifLib
+ Fixes stray empty triangles when importing NiTriStrip meshes

0.1.4
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o Importer
- Fixed UV values when flipping so they align properly in UVW window
- Fixed issues with DAoC mesh import (in NifLib)
- Fixed rotation issue with animation import

0.1.3
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o Importer
- Fixed alignment issues when importing Morrowind Armor nifs
- Added initial animation support (only for animations internal to nif, no kf file support yet)
- Fixed numerous issues with bone system (biped is still broken)
- Fixed issues with skin and doac nifs

0.1.2
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- Introduced the importer

- Fixed collision generation, turned out that Oblivion
doesn't like NvTriStrip's strips. Thanks to Razorwing
for discovering the bug and Tanguy Fautr� for his
stripper (http://users.telenet.be/tfautre/softdev/tristripper).

- Fixed materials with transforms, flipped UV coords and
objects without mapping.

Requirements
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Exporter and Utility:
3D Studio Max 6, 7 and 8

Importer
3d Studio Max 8

Installation
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Copy NifExport.dle, NifProps.dlu, MaxNifImport.dli to your 3dsmax\plugins
directory.

Copy MaxNifTools.ini to your 3dsmax\plugcfg directory.

Usage
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Exporter and Utility:
Use the NifProps utility plugin to mark objects as collision shapes and
set their Havok material and layer properties. Export files using
"File->Export->Gambryo File (*.nif)".

Importer:
Import files using "File->Import->Netimmerse/Gamebryo(*.NIF)"

Its highly recommended that you edit the MaxNifTools.ini file to adjust
paths and other settings to your machine to make it easier to work with.

1. Remove irrelevant applications from the KnownApplications list
2. Fix the RootPaths, TexturePaths and TextureSearchPaths in the
Applications for your machine.

- The ini file has a substitution mechanism to make it easier to just
change one location and refer to that path in other areas.

- RootPaths is used to determine if the imported nif is in one of
those directories if so it assumes the nif is from that app and uses
those settings for import.

- TexturePaths is used to test if the relative path in the nif is
relative to that directory.

- TextureSearchPaths will be recursively scanned for file names that
match the extensions (this can be time consuming so keep it to only
relevant directories to you).

Legal
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