1.8.0 (unless otherwise mentioned all changes apply to both the w3d and w3x plugin)

 - Some fixes and cleanups for the W3D and W3X export code
 - Update the plugin to work with Max 2023
 - Fix to allow any material pass to use alpha blending (previously only the last pass with alpha blending would have it enabled). This was just an issue in the exporter, the engine has never had problems with this.
 - Various changes that make the exporting process faster
 - Export settings window will now start in the center of the Max window, instead of the top corner.
 - Fix an issue with the animation frame settings in the export dialog for the W3D plugin.
 - Fix an issue with exporting tangent and binormal data in the W3D plugin (used for the BFME2 FX shader materials). The fix is already in the last published W3X plugin.
 - W3X plugin included in the pack for the first time

1.7.0 Beta

 - Add support to allow the loading of the D3DX9 compiled effect files from the BFME2 SDK in the "DirectX Material" plugin in Max 2017.
 - Add support to export the shader materials for BFME2 models.
 - Add some new surface types (Only available for Renegade based mods on the latest builds of Scripts 5.0)

1.6.0

 - Fix crash caused by some objects brought up from Max 8.
 - Objects without mesh data (e.g.lights, dummies) no longer crash the exporter when they have "Export Geometry" checked.
 - Exporting instanced meshes can now only export one mesh into the .w3d file instead of redundant copies.
 	- Requires "Export Transform (Bone)" to be checked on all instances!
 	- Requires "Eliminate duplicate reference meshes" to be checked in the export dialog.
 - W3D export properties are now properly propagated between instances of the same mesh.
 - Fixed bug where cloning multiple nodes using Shift+Drag would jumble W3D export properties.
 - Its now possible to edit the MaxScreenSize field via an edit box on the "W3D Tools" rollout.
 	- New default value is 1.0 for the new scripts 5.0 percent screen size LOD implementation.
 - Remove "Student Version" message from max files.
 - (The added "Export New AABTree" checkbox in the exporter does nothing as of yet.)

1.5.0

- Released source code for max2w3d.dle (Max 2017 export plugin), wdump.exe and memorymanager.dll!  :toot:
- Fixed an issue with dazzle names
- Add a new flag for meshes to make the light solve feature in Mammoth ignore those meshes completely (Only available for Renegade based mods on very recent builds of scripts 5.0)

1.4.0

- Fix an issue when exporting smooth skinning
- Fix an issue when exporting meshes that have the "static sorting" field in the material editor set to anything other than 0. Any meshes exported with previous versions of the Max 2017 exporter that have this setting set to something other than 0 will need to be re-exported to pick up the correct value of this setting.
- Fix a typo in the max export plugin
- Add a new laser surface type (Only available for Renegade based mods on very recent builds of scripts 5.0)

1.3.0

- Fix so that the material properly defaults to "opaque"
- Add new surface types for Blue Tiberium, Red Tiberium and Tiberium Veins. Only available for Renegade-based mods on recent builds of Scripts 5.0.
- Fix an issue where certain meshes containing multiple passes were having their materials exported incorrectly.
- Fix an issue where the code was incorrectly handling bone weights of 0 in some cases

1.2.0

- Improvements to error handling.
- Fix an issue with terrain exporting incorrectly. Any terrain meshes exported with previous versions of the Max 2017 exporter will need to be re-exported.

1.1.0

- Add some error checking and messages that the old max plugin supported
- Display the total vertex count in the export log window
- Fix a bug that affected certain skinned meshes, hierarchies and animations
- Fix so that the animation frame spinners on the export dialog allow you to select any number up to the actual number of frames in the scene (previously it would only let you select up to whatever the last "maximum" value you chose was)