Blender support for Collada is bad because no one wants to work on it. The format itself is not at fault.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Juan Linietsky <redu...@gmail.com> wrote: > glTF is raw OpenGL state data, it's useless for game engines other than > basic HTML5 frameworks. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Todor Imreorov <blurym...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> It would be great to have gitf support. Some open source game engines use >> it for importing 3d animated assets. It is said to perfprm better that the >> other formats on webg games. >> On 10 Feb 2016 11:42, "Fabio Pesari" <fa...@pesari.eu> wrote: >> >> > After reading the thread about FBX, I realized that since Blender is >> > free software, it would be good if it encouraged using free formats >> > instead of proprietary ones like FBX, which are always going to require >> > time-consuming reverse engineering efforts. >> > >> > I know at least two engine-independent formats which have fully >> > available specifications: glTF ([0]) and OpenGEX ([1]). >> > >> > I think both were designed to fix the various issues COLLADA had; glTF >> > is JSON-based and OpenGEX uses its own typed free format called >> > "OpenDDL" (example at [2]). >> > >> > OpenGEX already has a Blender exporter which is licensed under the CC >> > BY-SA 3.0 ([3]), while I couldn't find anything Blender-related for glTF >> > (but being JSON-based, writing a Python plugin for it should be >> trivial). >> > >> > I think including built-in support for them in Blender would be a good >> > way to encourage users to adopt something else than both proprietary >> > formats and free (but crappy) COLLADA, and for the Blenders devs to have >> > less headaches (since they would just have to follow the specs rather >> > than reverse-engineer obscure formats). >> > >> > [0]: >> > >> https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/blob/master/specification/README.md >> > [1]: http://opengex.org/OpenGEX.1.1.2.pdf >> > [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Game_Engine_Exchange#Example >> > [3]: http://opengex.org/OpenGex-Blender-Script.zip >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Bf-committers mailing list >> > Bf-committers@blender.org >> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers