[Openexr-devel] 3dsMax OpenEXR support

[Steve Blackmon]

Greetings All,

I just wanted to drop a note to the list to mention that we are 
finishing up an OpenEXR 3dsMax Bitmap I/O plugin.  The binary will be 
freely available via our website in the coming few days, with builds 
supporting 3dsMax R3,R4, and R5.  Once the plugin is released and any 
outstanding issues are resolved, we plan to spend some extra time 
polishing up the code, after which we would like to submit the plugin 
source for inclusion in the OpenEXR distribution.

The plugin includes full support for writing all the standard 'g-buffer' 
channel data from 3dsMax, including z-buffer, object id, material id, 
velocity data, etc., with user specifiable attribute identifiers to 
allow for maximum compatability with various compositing applications 
and other software that supports OpenEXR.  The plugin will also provide 
the option to embed some scene specific information in the file 
including camera transform data and projection information such as FoV 
and Aperture.

It's been a bit of a bumpy ride getting this working, but we're very 
happy with the results (thanks to the great work by the folks at ILM.) 
Great job guys, this format rocks :)

-Steve Blackmon

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