First release of the new generation collada exporters

COLLADAMax/AUTHORS

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+AUTHORS
+=======
+
+NetAllied Systems GmbH
+---------
+Judith Schenk
+Robert W�rfel
+
+If we've forgotten you in the above list, please contact us!

COLLADAMax/BUGS

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+Please go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/COLLADAMaya for a full 
+list of known bugs.
+
+Have a look on the TODO file!

COLLADAMax/COLLADAMax.sln

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COLLADAMax/COPYING

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+Copyright (c) 2008 Intel Corporation
+Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Sony Computer Entertainment America
+Copyright (c) 2008 NetAllied Systems GmbH
+
+This file is part of COLLADAMaya.
+
+COLLADAMaya is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the MIT License as published by the
+Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
+
+COLLADAMaya is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+MIT License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the MIT License along with
+COLLADAMaya; see the file COPYING. If not have a look here:
+http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

COLLADAMax/INSTALL

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+Requirements:
+-------------
+To build the COLLADAMax plug-in you need to have a version of 3ds Max, including the SDK, installed.
+Supported versions are:
+3ds Max 9
+3ds Max 2008
+3ds Max 2009
+
+You also need MS Visual Studio 2005.
+
+
+
+Building:
+---------
+Before you can start to build you need to set an environment variable to the installation 
+path of the 3ds Max installation you want to use, i.e. the path that contains the "maxsdk"  
+and "plugins" directories. The name of the  environment variable depends on the version of 
+3ds Max as listed below:
+
+3ds Max Version  |  name of the  environment variable
+-----------------------------------------------------
+3ds Max 9        |  MAX_PATH9
+3ds Max 2008     |  MAX_PATH2008
+3ds Max 2009     |  MAX_PATH2009
+
+
+To build the plug-in open "COLLADAMax.sln" with MS Visual Studio 2005, choose the configuration 
+you want to build und build the project.
+
+If the build process succeeded the plug-in file (ColladaMaxNew.dle) is automatically copied into 
+your "plugins" directory of your 3ds Max installation.
+
+After the next start of 3ds Max the plugin is available and can be found as "NEWCOLLADA" in the 
+export dialog.

COLLADAMax/README

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+
+COLLADAMax is a new implementation of a 3ds Max plug-in to export a Max scene or 
+parts of it to a COLLADA file, released under an MIT-license. 
+In contrast to other existing 3ds Max to COLLADA exporters, this new plug-in does not store the
+COLLADA document in an intermidiate data model by writes it directly to file. This leads to a dramatic 
+reduction of memory consumption and to much a better performance.
+
+
+For installation instructions please read the "INSTALL" file.

COLLADAMax/TODO

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+=======================================
+-   General
+    -   absolute vs. relative path
+    -   installer to automatically copy the plug-in and its dependencies to the right place 
+    -   64bit version of the plug-in
+    -   build system
+    -   layer
+    -   import plug-in
+    -   unit tests
+    -   test framework to test all the features of the plug-in
+    -   options to control the behavior of the plug-in. i.e. what and how to export
+    -   gui to select options and to report problems
+    -   i18n
+    -   documentation how to use the plug-in and what features are supported
+
+=======================================
+-   VisualScene
+    -   joints and skins
+    -   Reference to effect texture
+
+=======================================
+-   Geometry:
+
+    -   Materials:
+        -   test blinn
+
+    - Polygons export:
+        LINES 
+	    LINE_STRIPS 
+	    TRIANGLE_FANS
+	    TRIANGLE_STRIPS
+	    POINTS
+
+=======================================
+-   Effects:
+    -   Shader export
+
+=======================================
+-   Animations
+	- Only simple transformation animations are currently supported
+
+=======================================
+-   Lights
+
+=======================================
+-   Cameras
+
+=======================================
+-   PhysicalScene
+
+=======================================
+-   Spline
+
+=======================================
+-   Nurbs
+
+=======================================
+-   Object External References (XREFs)