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Thinkbox Software is happy to announce the official release of XMesh MX, the 3ds Max-specific portion of the XMesh Geometry Caching toolset.

XMesh MX consists of the commercial XMesh Saver MX which is used to save geometry data to the hard disk, and the FREE XMesh Loader MX which is a scene object for loading, displaying, retiming and modifying the XMesh file sequence.

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XMesh MX has the following advantages over the 3ds Max PointCache modifier:

• Support for changing topology.
• Support for changing / animated mesh data channels other than vertex list – the complete mesh definition including Smoothing Groups, Material ID assignments and all 100 Mapping Channels can be saved and re-loaded.
• Smaller disk footprint for similar data thanks to built-in compression.
• Smart data referencing when data remains unchanging between frames.
• Human-readable XML Header Files can include additional information like Bounding Box and Scale as well as arbitrary Metadata.

XMesh MX has the following advantages over other Mesh caching solutions:

• Support for pre-calculated Velocity channel with various loading-time interpolation modes.
• Direct support for Thinking Particles velocities acquisition.
• Optional saving of multiple objects as one in World space, as multiple sequences in World or Object space.
• Support for all 100 mapping channels.
• Support for alternative (Proxy) sequence saving and loading for viewport display including built in save-time optimization.
• Additional simplified viewport display modes including Bounding Box, Percent of Vertices and Percentage of Faces.
• Direct support for both sequential and parallel processing of a single sequence on Deadline.
• Multiple files per frame data storage allows the direct referencing of data channels and even the manual editing of XMesh XML Header Files for deeper TD access.

XMesh MX has the following advantages over Alembic:

• XMesh is actually available for 3ds Max and is a complete commercial solution as opposed to a set of libraries to develop your own I/O tools.