With our collada support lacking we're inviting developers who previously submitted patches to become involved by getting svn commit access and working on this area in blender directly.
Gaia Clary is available to test patches on a user level and do some of the management involved with getting collada working right (collecting test files, kicking devs when they break features etc). To avoid overwhelming new collada devs with all bugs at once, I suggest we try have a single application working for export (mesh/rig/animation). Gaia and I agreed export to SecondLife is a reasonable target to support initially since its open-source and 2.4x python exporter was compatible. Once supported other applications can be made compatible, but always keeping SecondLife working. This way we always have at least _some_ happy collada users :). I've mailed 2 developers already to see if they would be interested to help with collada support, if there are others - don't be shy! Please reply here or mail me direct. On a related note, all our collada reports have been set as `TODO`, and are now linked from a wiki page. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Development/Todo/Import_Export#OpenCollada Related Issues: * A python script may be a better way to go for simple collada support, one has been written but I didn't hear of anyone testing it or any response as to how well it works. ** see thread http://markmail.org/message/5ovtzrs3a2red5ga ** uploaded to own FTP: http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/io_scene_dae.zip ...weather to stick with OpenCollada is something I leave to Gaia and other devs who want to be involved - whichever they can maintain best. * What If nothing happens, bugs keep getting reported, none/very-few fixed??? ...Then we may indeed remove OpenCollada support, the whole reason for this mail is to encourage developers to become involved but if we cant get 1 application well supported - export-only, then we better give up on this format and consider the project failed. Having an export-only python script supporting at least 1 of application is quite a feasible as a technical target, but also need to see there are devs who are prepared to take on this task and be responsible for collada support in blender. -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
