🚀 New `blender2ogre` release!

✨ Features

Add support for Blender 4.1
Add support for Blender 4.1+ drag and drop of files
Exporting
- Add support for exporting SkyBoxes
- Add support for OgreMeshUpgrader '-optvtxcache' option
- Add support for Rectangular Lights
- Add option for exporting manual LOD levels
- Add option to pack normals into INT_10_10_10_2 format
- material: implement alpha rejection for ogre1
- Ogre Next (aka v2) JSON material support (#178, #185)
Importing
- Add support for importing of pose animations
- Add support for importing OGRE .scene files

significantly speed up mesh import and export
Fix Edge Lists generation for OGRE >= 14.0
From Blender 2.8x+ on LAMPS are now called LIGHTS
Fix several problems with loading and saving configuration, also improve reloading and use json
Fix wrong index entry for LOD
not skip exporting of LOD levels
Fix exception when there is a material slot but no material
Fix importing of custom normals
Fix windows path characters
Fix for issue #181
Fix for issue #188

Alert user if scale or rotation are not uniform
Separate deletion of XML files between importer and exporter
Replace isclose for math.isclose native method
Show Blenders python script code for import/export options
Save generated import/export script into a text block
Only save import/export textblock script if called from the UI
Use Blenders .OBJ importing code as template for importing meshes
Add debug logging to importer
Add exception handling to file read and write operations
Add glob filter to OGRE importer
Change to Blenders lighting model
Correct al instances of config.get() to use singleton-comparison instead of truthiness wich was failing in some instances
Correct point light attributes
create default material if it could not be imported
Fix for removal of 'use_inherit_scale'
Refactor Vertex Color export and import
Reuse materials and set default material name

NOTE: This release has been packaged to allow installing from Blender add-ons menu

Full Changelog: v0.8.4...v0.9.0