v1.46

Added support for URP loading of materials for Obj cache

Added support for HDRP loading of materials for Obj cache

v1.45

MegaCache compatible with Unity 2023

MegaCache compatible with Unity 6

v1.44

Add an option to select a shader that will be applied to any imported materials for the obj sequence.

v1.43

MegaCache now works correctly with OBJ sequences that use unique materials per frame.

MegaCache fully compaitble with Unity 2021 and 2022

v1.42

Added a Multi Threaded option to Point Cloud XYZ playback that reduces CPU usage

Added a check to Point Cloud XYZ playback so particles are only updated if the frame changes as opposed to happening every frame.

v1.41

Removed some debug code that was causing an exception when trying to import .xyz files.

Also removed some logging code that was slowing a few things down.

v1.40

Updated all importers to work correctly with ',' and '.' as deciaml points.

v1.39

MegaCache made compatible with Unity 2020

v1.38

Fixed bug with texture importing if texture filenames had './' at the beggining.

v1.37

MegaCache made compatible with Unity 2019.1

v1.36

If Load Materials option off meshes will now import with the correct number os submeshes allowing you to add your own materials.

Added beta support for 32 bit indexes allowing meshes to have more than 65535 vertices.

MegaCache made fully compatible with Unity 2018

v1.35

Fixed an issue in the .prt particle importer caused by a difference in the old 3ds max script based exporter and the newer max plugin.

MegaCache now fully compatible with Unity 2018

Added support for Maya PDA sequence import to the Particle Playback system.

v1.34

Added color option for Point Cloud for when no color data is present in the imported cloud file.

v1.33

Fixed issue if importing PLY file with no color data.

Optimized playback of Point Cloud if no color data present.

MegaCache made fully compatible with Unity 2017.2

MegaCache made fully compatible with Unity 2017.3

Removed warnings in Unity 2017 and later regarding webplayer.

Fixed missing materials on meshes in demo scene in Unity 2017

v1.32

MegaCache OBJ seq import now works if the file names are just numbers.

MegaCache Point Cloud seq import now works if the file names are just numbers.

MegaCache Point Cloud XYZ seq import now works if the file names are just numbers.

Removed a debug log message when importing an OBJ sequence.

v1.31

Fixed a bug in the Point Cloud systems on Unity 5.6 and 2017 where the points were not being shown.

v1.30

Added Vertex Color support to the OBJ importer, either in the 'v' data or the separate 'vc' channel.

Removed a Debug statement.

v1.29

Changed file sequence importers to work without need for split character or format number, so now works correctly.

v1.28

Updated OBJ file importer to be able to handle negative indices.

Changed OBJ material importer so you wont get an error if Material texture map fields are empty in the OBJ file.

v1.27

MegaCache made fully Unity 2017 compatible.

Sopped animated system from animating in edit mode.

v1.25

Fixed a problem with importing materials.

v1.24

Fixed an exception that could happen with Particle Playback if there was an empty frame or a frame only a single particle

Added Max File option to Particle playback, check this box if rotation direction and positions do not match the source, re-import your file afterwards.

v1.23

MegaCache now fully compatible with Unity 5.6

Changed various importers to work around the Monobehaviour bug for StringReader making importing of files with Unix line endings very very slow.

v1.22

Fixed a small bug in the 3d rotation of particles in Particle Pro component that could cause an exception on first play.

v1.21

Optimized particle playback, which will need you to re-import any particle files if rotation is used.

Fixed maxparticles not being used for Playback particles, so if you had more than the default 1000 particles per frame you would get an error.

Changed particle importer so it supports prt files with ',' for decimal points.

Added support for 3d rotation of particles in Unity 5.4 and later.

Added Progress bar for particle playback importing.

v1.20

Added option to Particle Playback that is data is already loaded you can choose to add to or replace.

Made a custom exporter plugin for 3ds max 2017 for faster exporting of large particle systems.

OBJ Material importer will now create Standard Shader materials instead of Legacy shaders.

Added an error message when trying to import an OBJ file which contains faces with more than 4 sides, the OBJ importer only supports quads and tris.

v1.19

MegaCache now fully compatible with Unity 5.5

v1.18

Added check for PLY files to error if not Ascii format.

PLY point cloud import now uses a stream the PLY data during import instead of reading whole file into memory, reduced memory required for very very large PLY point clouds.

General Point Cloud import now also streams during import instead of reading whole file.

Added Point Cloud and Point Cloud XYZ to the component menus for easier adding to objects.

Fixed some exceptions with Point Cloud XYZ with empty image files.

Sped up import of PLY files.

Particle Skip value now taken into account for PLY data import.

v1.17

Particle size now takes the startsize from the Particle system into account for more control over the particle size;

Removed redundant FrameNum slider from Particle Pro component.

Added option to Particle Pro components to change the Y Up on import, turn on if your particle files are importing on their side.

Added support for PLY files in the PointCloudXYZ component, just single files supported at this time.

Added option to Point Cloud components to change the Y Up on import, turn on if your point cloud files are importing on their side.

Fixed bug that stopped frame number slider working it Show Paths was selected.

v1.16

Improved the material importer so will use names in mtllib instead of expecting same filenames as obj files.

Updates for obsolete particle values in the Unity 5.4.

Note in Unity 5.4 you will get warnings about the Legacy particle system, support for Legacy particles will be removed when Unity 5.5 is released

v1.15

Option added to force calculation of normals on import, this will override any normals in the OBJ files.

OBJ files which contain no normals will now have normals calculated on import.

v1.14

Import filename format now displays the split character in the inspector.

Material importer now removes any ':' found in the material names, ':' can not be used in asset names in Unity.

Material importer now defaults alpha value to 1 instead of 0 is alpha component missing, this stops meshes from being invisible after import.

v1.13

Fixed bug where mesh would not display if multiple materials were found in the OBJ sequence but load materials is not selected.

Removed Debug.Logs from the import code.

MegaCache is fully 5.4 compatible.

v1.12

Fixed the pingpong not working in the Point Cloud animation.

Added a new Point Cloud Object, this one will read xyzrgb files so you can have colored point cloud particles.

v1.11

Fixed Layout errors in console when Data Import section in inspector was closed.

Added new beta feature of importing Maya .pda particle files. Use the MEL command

dynExport -mnf start -mxf end -os 2 -atr position -atr velocity -atr particleId -atr lifespanPP -p "path" -f "pda" objname;

Where start and end are the first and last frame of your particle sequence, path is where to save the files and objname is the name of your particle object in Maya

v1.10

Added missing GetNextFrame() method when target platform is one that does nto support multi threading.

Fixed error in the OBJ Ref editor script with a missing GUI call.

Fixed mesh not updating when multiple OBJ ref objects used the same frame data one after the other.

Made Unity 5.3 compatible

v1.09

Added option to particle import to remove particles alive in last frame from import.

Improved particle importer to remove particles that only have one frame of data.

Added a new Particle Playback component for direct particle playback as opposed to the emitter version, means one shot effects like explosions etc can be used as opposed to constant effects like smoke.

Added playback component for legacy particles as well.

v1.08

Removed the unused function LoadTexture which was causing a compile error when building for webplayer.

v1.07

Made fully Unity 5 compatible.

v1.06

Smoke in demo scene working correctly.

Added a beta of a new Point Cloud import and playback system.

v1.05

Fixed bug in Particle Inspector

Fixed bug in Legacy Particle Inspector

Added a beta exporter for Blender to export Blender particle systems to MegaCache prt format.

v1.04

Fixed bug with particle importers wanting .txt extension instead of .prt generated by the Max exporter.

v1.03

Demo scene was saved using a file as a data source which would not work without the cache file. Demo scene now uses an 'Image' data source.

v1.02

Added option to update mesh collider for Object Cache.

Added option to update mesh collider for Object Cache Ref.

v1.01

Added a runtime folder option for OBJ Cache files, cache files for standalone builds need to be copied the data folder for the build after the Unity build.

First release

Mega Cache