Collada 1.4 Script Released With Armature Support

Eugene (etr9j) · August 24, 2006

After some quiet reflection on how to support armatures, Illusoft has releasedÂ an update to their Collada 1.4 plugin for Blender (now version 0.3.91) with – guess what – beta armature support, andÂ the followingÂ 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

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

Author Eugene (etr9j)

Just a guy really into 3D, especially where Blender is concerned.

10 responses

LetterRip

24 August 2006 at 04:14

committed to CVS,

LetterRip

Pieter

24 August 2006 at 11:44

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

Eugene (etr9j)

24 August 2006 at 14:06

@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

24 August 2006 at 14:53

Hi Eugene,

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

Eugene (etr9j)

24 August 2006 at 15:58

@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.

Eugene (etr9j)

24 August 2006 at 16:05

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.