Alias Wavefront Maya is one of the most powerful 3D animation and visual effects programs the world has seen. But Maya, in itself, lacks the ability to work with images in the format PNG (Portable Network Graphics).
This is a plugin for Maya that resolves this issue.
It works for the Maya versions for windows, I'm not sure whether it is compilable for the Linux version but it probably is.
PNG offers quite a few advantages above other texture formats, like
It is the format to use if you use The Gimp or Cinepaint (Film Gimp) for your texturing. It could also be a very good export format for renderings. Alas, this plugin is still read only at the moment.
View the README.txt here
Installation is as simple as copying a few files to the right directory: IMFPng.dll, libpng12.dll and zlib1.dll. Steps are described in the bundled README.
The archive contains the full source code for this plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0+, see the readme for details.
Please send your fixes and contributions to the address below.
:: W.J. van der Laan 2004 ::