Collada 1.4 Script Released With Armature Support

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collada.jpgAfter 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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    • LetterRip

      committed to CVS,

      LetterRip

    • http://www.illusoft.com Pieter

      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

    • http://www.blendernation.com Eugene (etr9j)

      @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.

    • Marcus

      Hi Eugene,

      I saw the Array Exploration Video and was asking myself how the Desktop Wallpaper in the back was done?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Eugene (etr9j)

      @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.

    • http://www.geneome.net Eugene (etr9j)

      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.

    • hugo

      i think i read somewhere that your importer/exporter also supports physics? how does this work? what is possible with that?

    • http://utenti.lycos.it/darkcg Renato Perini

      Amazing. :-)
      Thanks, Pieter!

    • http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Hoehrer Hoehrer

      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

      Werner

    • ochacon

      collada import not funtion in 64 bit :(