Good evening.
I guess I have bananas on my eyes, but I can’t find a way out of this problem:

A simply animated modifier like bend or taper is used with auto key to animate a 3d model.
I want to export the geometry and its animated data into a real time environment.
To be sure that the animation is a easy-to-handle vertex animation I’d like to bake the modifier animation into the mesh.
Does anyone know how if there is a way in 3ds Max 2009/2010?

Thank you very much and wishing you all a good start into 2010 :-)
Happy New Year!

Rue

3ds Max 1.0 through 2012
NVidia Quadro FX3700M-1024 (Driver 267.76)
Core 2 T9600 2.8GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX10
Win 7 64 bit

Point cache modifier should do the trick. Note that there are 2 versions, WSM and Object.
If you want an object per frame then Snapshot - it’s an option on the Array button flyout.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.