Mixamo Updates Collada 1.4.1 Importer for Blender, Adds MacOSX Support

Back in August, I covered the announcement from Mixamo, the online character animation service, regarding their support of Blender, using a Collada 1.4.1 import-based workflow. They recently followed up with me with the news that they have recently updated this Collada 1.4.1 importer for Blender 2.49b and are now hosting it on their Mixamo website, freely available to the Blender community.

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Watch out for Tube’s train!

Josh Wedlake of Tube Project made this nice and intricate train models with some explainations on how he manage the parts. Bassam Kurdali also update the news for the copy attributes script (works fine with Blender 2.54). The script can be used to copy several attributes such as draw options, modifiers and a lot more for object and bones just like the copy attributes menu in Blender 2.4x.

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