from Doug:

Most applications aren't very strict with the bind pose because they support different bind poses for different meshes.  Ogre requires a single bind pose for all meshes, which makes things a lot more difficult. 

The changes are where the BindPose is defined (which is pretty much ignored by most applications, but you seemed to have added it for XNA), and the skin deformer.  In both cases, global transforms for bones were not correctly being exported.  I set global transforms for the bones equal to (my_bone.fbxArm.matrixWorld * my_bone.restMatrix) * mtx4_z90.  That  appears to do the trick for me, though I can't say I fully understand how the terms are derived.

I've tested kngcalvn_fbx_test_new.fbx and our sample file in Maya & our FBX importer, and both work with the changes.

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Increased Armature name maxlen to actual limit of 63. Could have also changed io_anim_c3d, but it's a prefix string - not making sense to increase max prefix length to max name length.

* redraw before rendering (workaround for bug)
* play the first file once on init (before first file was assumed to be first file in demo_config.py which often isnt the case)

Patch provided by Matteo F. Vescovi, thanks!

new clean menu, 
added add_mesh_extra_objects/add_mesh_honeycomb.py by Kayo Phoenix
added add_mesh_extra_objects/add_mesh_torusknot.py by Anthony D'Agostino

Looks like it was a typo passing calc_tessface keyword to mesh.update function

Removed one additional reference to bpy.app.revision. I don't see errors caused by this variable because it is defined in all windows builds I have access to.

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Additional changes:

- Fixed wrong pop of rectangle area (function wasn't called)
- Removed unused code

job and frame status cleanup (move to the model module)
record transitions between states in job to be able to get (among others) the started and finished time.

from Alexander Gessler (aramis_acg)

This patch extends the 3DS importer and exporter to have better material support and unifies their respective feature sets.

This includes:
- UV scale,offset
- tiling/wrap modes
- improved conversion of mapping targets
- better warnings

Additionally, the exporter now handles specular, opacity and normal maps correctly (the importer did this already). (I think the way how textures were written previously was non 3DS-compliant).

I tested this against assimp's 3DS test suite [1] as well as my personal 3DS test sets. Exported 3DS files were successfully read by FBXConv and assimp.

[1] http://assimp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/assimp/trunk/test/

bpy_extras.io_utils.path_reference() expects a real dir as base_src, not the blend file name!

added warning "some mesh functions broken"