DirectX X Format (.x)

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Various fixes

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Widened support, fixes, and uplifts

• Imports files from more software and games. Added support for models

exported by tools like MilkShape 3D and Ultimate Unwrap 3D, plus DirectX characters from Game Guru and FPS Creator, alongside the formats already supported.

• DirectX 8.0 model support. A dedicated import option for DirectX 8.0

skinned characters — pick it from the Import Type dropdown.

• Choose how animation is saved. When exporting, you can now write

animation as either Quaternion (separate rotation, scale and position tracks — the most widely compatible option) or Matrix (one transform per frame, for the most faithful round-trip and to preserve transforms a quaternion split can't capture, like shear).

• More accurate character binding. Skinned models now bind using the

mesh's own bind-pose data as the source of truth, with the bone hierarchy setting the rest orientation. This fixes characters that previously imported posed or positioned incorrectly.

• Recovers animation from damaged files. Compressed .x files with

corrupted data on disk used to lose all their animation. Now as much animation as possible is salvaged, with only the genuinely unreadable parts falling back to the rest pose.

• Better skinning and posing. Characters with bones under a scaled parent

(such as a head driving facial detail) now deform correctly in both the rest pose and animation.

• More robust imports. Models with broken or out-of-range face data now

import as cleanly as possible with a clear warning, instead of failing.

• .xcache support has moved out. This addon is now focused purely on

DirectX .x files; .xcache files are handled by the separate cache addon.

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• Fixed textures going missing when re-importing a Blender-exported xcache.
• Fixed mesh parts collapsing or deforming wrongly during animation; skin weights at chunk boundaries were being misread.
• xcache models with multiple parts now import as separate objects sharing one armature, round-tripping cleanly on export.
• .x files with multiple materials now import as separate objects too, and merge back on export.
• Quads in .x files triangulate on import by default (toggleable).
• Cutout transparency (leaf edges, eye highlights) now works - diffuse texture alpha hooks into material alpha automatically.
• Added the ability to bulk-import x or xcache files
• Files now import into collections named after the filename
• Fixed files with Maya namespace names (e.g. Rig:Shape) failing to import.
• Fixed meshes with non-white vertex tints importing as empty.
• More reliable mesh detection across the xcache library.
• New "Unweld on Export" toggle in the .x export dialog (default-on) - controls whether shared verts get split at face corners to match the original file's structure.
• Removed the non-manifold edge warning on .x export (it was noisy and not actionable).

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Minor fixes

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Fixed issue with xcache files with multiple meshes not loading properly

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Removed clumsy autoweighting and fixed xcache parser not reading weights for final bone in some cases

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Fixed importing issues with animation and smoothing

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• Project Zomboid / 3DS Max biped support: high-precision ticks option, DeclData decoder, default template emission
• Round-trip preservation: templates, aux frames, DeclData, -XSkinMeshHeader, non-bone animations, sparse keyframe density

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• Full .xcache import + export (SEMS format); .xcache models can be imported directly from the game files
• Compressed .x can now be exported (both text and binary)
• Improvements to texture loading

Bug fixes

• Materials no longer import as glossy chrome (handles shinieness/roughness better
• Texture search broadened: tries engine-relative path, basename next to file, common subfolders (Textures/, tex/), parent dirs, and all common image extensions. Missing files get a placeholder so the path stays editable.
• Ensured that round trips of importing/exporting don't break anything

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Removed logging, updated tags