Poly Editor:

• Added support for cut, copy and paste in the poly mesh editor.
• Added support for copying and pasting hard edges and vertices.
• "Connect" vertices will now connect two vertices that don't share a face.
• Cut/Copy/Paste notes: These functions are mode relative. If you cut/copy in vertex mode only the selected vertices will be cut/copied/pasted. In edge mode, only edges are cut/copied/pasted, and in face mode, only faces. You can cut/copy in the poly mesh editor and then paste into the main modeling window. This will create a new object with the cut/copied elements. Pasting a cut/copy of just edges or vertices won't be of much use outside of edit mode at the moment, they won't be displayed in the main modeling window. However, you can select the pasted edges or points using the project window, and then take the edges or points into edit mode.

• Paste notes: You can paste other object types into the poly mesh editor. They will be converted to a polymesh and pasted into the mesh being edited.
• Connect Vertices: To allow for building faces in the poly mesh editor, you can now select two vertices that don't share a face and connect them with an edge. You can then select a loop of edges and fill them to create a face.

• ScriptFX are now available: Bounce, Heartbeat, Rotate, Shake and Smooth Motion.
• ScriptFX notes: Some features that depend on animation paths may ignore the effect of ScriptFX, for example Align to Path, linked objects and Pixie Dust.

• Added support for Subdivided UVs.

• Fixed a bug that was hanging the rendering of a fountain model.
• Changed the default camera shutter speed to 1/8th sec.
• Fix for replicating and duplicating animated objects.
• Collada fixes for importing some models.
• Fixed a document file saving issue when the file is locked or not writable.
• Change to avoid crashing when closing/quitting a rendering.
• Fixed a bug when saving Quicktime formats with alpha when alpha wasn't selected to be rendered.
• Added an update checking mechanism.
• Made the OBJ importer more lenient. If a bad face, UV face or normal face are encountered they are ignored.
• Fix for incorrect texture color when importing a U3D (Enfold) file on PPC.
• Fix for loading files with boolean objects older than 5.0.
• Disabled project window snapping to other windows/palettes.
• Fixed a potential crasher in the FX shaders.
• Fixes for some thickness blowout issues.
• Fix for an infinite loop in metaballs.
• Fixes for normal relative function issues in poly edit mode.
• Fixes in the Minicad importer.
• Fixed the smooth slider crash in Import As 3D Mesh.
• Changed the camera backdrop to save as a linked file if the backdrop is animating.
• Turned off the camera up vector display for scripted paths.
• On the Mac, fixed the modeling window title bar for models which haven't been saved yet. Previously you could pull down a menu with a false path.

• Fixed the UI display limit of 20 with multi-bone in the Bone OP. The maximum number of segments is 99.
• Fixed several crashes.
• Made a change to make selecting bones easier.
• Fixed a potential file corruption issue when saving a model with Bones.
• Fixed issue where an IK target couldn't be selected.
• Added support for displaying vertex assignments for the selected bone.
• Made it so that assigning a weight of zero will remove the selected vertices from the selected bone. To do this, select the vertices to remove, enter 0 in the weight field, and click "Add Selection".

• Improved the welding of points when converting to polygon mesh.