We need assistance with our 3DS and Maya exporters. People are raising issues on them, but the original authors are either not around, or they are too busy now to continue to provide the level of support needed.
The core OGRE team do not have licenses for these products. I've already petitioned Alias and Discreet about whether they're prepared to offer reasonable licensing deals to open source programmers, who after all are only trying to support their products and are not in the business of being artists on the cheap, but both are incredibly tight-fisted and have offered me absolutely nothing. The OGRE team simply cannot shell out several thousand pounds / dollars (twice) to support users of these products, so I'm asking for the following:
1. Maintainers to come forward. If you own 3DS or Maya, and have experience with their scripting languages for both static and animated meshes, please volunteer to become a maintainer.
2. Alternatively, if you don't want to become a maintainer but want to help anyway, if you are able to contribute a Maya or 3DS license to the team, either through a spare copy you have, or a cash donation, we'd be very, very grateful. And no, we won't accept illegal copies
We don't ask for much back from the community - we're a very generous, giving bunch you know
- but now we need your help. It's for your own benefit anyway, after all. Proposals to me please at sinbad@ogre3d.org. It's for a good cause.
