Hi Jason, Yes this was one of my first ports of call but the particular model set we were testing against was causing osgviewer (2.8.2) to crash when exported from max2010. I need to experiment with newer versions of osg as I've noticed quite a bit of progress with model loaders since 2.8.2.
Cheers Kim On 23 April 2010 16:47, Jason Daly <[email protected]> wrote: > Kim Bale wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> The company I'm working for has recently moved all their graphics >> development from Vega over to OSG (currently 2.8.2) which has all gone >> pretty smoothly. >> >> However, we're now looking at ways of stream lining the work flow >> between modellers and programmers. At the moment the big sticking >> point is finding a model format that exports nicely from maya 2010 and >> Max2010 and is then read without issue in OSG. >> >> In the past the best results I've had was with Collada and max 2009 >> when exported using the Feeling software free collada exporter. >> However, as far as I know this isn't supported by max 2010. I noticed >> Feel Software have a commercial version of ColladaMax but without a >> trial version it's difficult to evaluate how it will perform will >> OSG's inbuilt loaders. >> > > Hi, Kim, > > The free version of Feeling's exporter has morphed into the OpenCOLLADA > project: > > http://code.google.com/p/opencollada > > We switched to this one once we upgraded to 2009, and the older exporter > stopped working. I think they've got it working with 2010 now. I recall > someone having an issue with OSG's import plugin, but I don't remember the > details. It works fine with our own COLLADA loader, so it can't be too far > off the mark. > > It might be worth a try, anyway. > > --"J" > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org

