Collada 1.4 Script Released With Armature Support

Published by Eugene (etr9j) on August 24th, 2006 in Python Scripts

After some quiet reflection on how to support armatures, Illusoft has released an update to their Collada 1.4 plugin for Blender (now version 0.3.91) with - guess what - beta armature support, and the following features/bug fixes:

Features
BETA - Armature import (no skinning)
import Polylists
import Textures for Transparency

Bugfixes

tags contain both and tags, schema violation & causes problems with other importers: EQUATION = 'equation' missing
missing u'Materials' key causes import failure, can we continue and report a warning?
lacks 'sid' attridute, and lacks 'body' attribute
Importer not handling COLLADA 1.4.1 files (even simple ones)
Import functionality with Daz Exporter ver 1.4.1
Polylists were not importing corrrect

Post issues to the Illusoft forum. Remember, an updated Collada importer/exporter, is a happy Collada importer/exporter.

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9 Responses to “Collada 1.4 Script Released With Armature Support”

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1 LetterRip Aug 24th, 2006 at 4:14 am

committed to CVS,

LetterRip
2 Pieter Aug 24th, 2006 at 11:44 am

Hi,

I Just released 0.3.91,

With full polylist import support. (A lot of Daz and Maya files use this primitive type) and a few bug fixes.

Check the website at http://colladablender.illusoft.com/downloads.html

Pieter
3 Eugene (etr9j) Aug 24th, 2006 at 2:06 pm

@All
I've updated the posted to include the newest update that Pieter did - it's hard to keep up with him sometimes. Hopefully no one will mind that I changed the post 10 hours after I posted it.
4 Marcus Aug 24th, 2006 at 2:53 pm

Hi Eugene,

I saw the Array Exploration Video and was asking myself how the Desktop Wallpaper in the back was done?
5 Eugene (etr9j) Aug 24th, 2006 at 3:58 pm

@Marcus
I can actually better answer your question with this link:

http://www.blendernation.com/2006/08/11/mathias-pedersens-starry-night-tutorials/

The image was actually done by Mathias and his site has the image and the tutoirals on how he made it. The minute I saw his image I immediately made it my background on all my machines.
6 Eugene (etr9j) Aug 24th, 2006 at 4:05 pm

Shoot, I just realized my background is different now. The image on the aray demo was actually from devianart I think. But I am sure it was made with Apophysis (http://www.apophysis.org/) - though I don't know the details.
7 hugo Aug 24th, 2006 at 7:52 pm

i think i read somewhere that your importer/exporter also supports physics? how does this work? what is possible with that?
8 Renato Perini Aug 25th, 2006 at 7:24 am

Amazing. :-)
Thanks, Pieter!
9 Hoehrer Apr 6th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Just too bad the script does not work since quite a while time (at least not in 2.43). But there is hope:

Read more about the current problems: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=85777

Read more about development progress (or lack thereof): http://colladablender.illusoft.com/phorum/read.php?2,86

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