On 19/11/10 9:38 AM, Alex Combas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Stefano Corazza<stef...@mixamo.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> We are working on a Collada import plugin for Blender that we would like >> to include in the general release. >> >> Emiliano Gambaretto here at Mixamo is the lead developer of this effort. >> We have a few questions that are related to bind/rest pose and how they >> are handled in Blender vs Collada. >> >> >> Can you respond confirming these statements? >> >> > > Sorry if this is a silly question, but do you mean you are working on > improving the existing Collada importer/exporter which Blender has? > Or do you mean you are going to work on something completely new? > > Here are the build instructions for the existing Collada importer/exporter. > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Kazanbas/Building_Collada_Branch > > I build with this feature regularly, and while it is still not complete (no > animation) it does work reasonably well in general. >
Hi all, I agree with Alex, splitting effort into two seperate bodies of work...one only for import, is a bit pointless. Nathan has added the framework and a lot of the functionality. It just needs some debugging ( skinning is a problem at the moment and armatures have some wierdness about them by themselves. ) General mesh import/export works reasonably well except for some cases of complex meshes when bits can be dropped (sketchup type imports.... messy:( [[a lot of that is how sketchup works internally....no shared vertices..all seperate faces!]]) typical examples in the bug data base are:: https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=24359&group_id=9&atid=498 https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=24265&group_id=9&atid=498 https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=24197&group_id=9&atid=498 I am trying to work through a few of the errors by trying to trace code and examining dae output files from a few simple test cases. Its hard work as I'm not a super programmer or have much experience with collada. It would be better if experienced collada users pooled with the current effort. Cheers Mike S. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers