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Collada

by Chris Sargent · in General Discussion · 09/06/2009 (8:45 pm) · 4 replies

Are there any free or relatively inexpensive modeling programs that have collada?

Thanks,,
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Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
T3D Steering Committee
#1
09/06/2009 (11:04 pm)
Blender can export to collada, but of course when you're exporting anything you can never be sure it will come out the way you want it (in my experience :P).

Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#2
09/07/2009 (11:44 am)
DeleD exports to collada
There is a free light version, and a low priced pro version.

Torque Owner Chris Sargent
Glorious Software
#3
09/07/2009 (6:35 pm)
Thanks! I knew about blender and have tried to learn to use it in the past but I have not had time for what i consider the larger learning curve over other programs i've used.

I'll check out deled and see how that works for me.

Associate Steve Acaster
[YorkshireRifles.com]
#4
09/07/2009 (8:54 pm)
Blender has a few "issues" with Collada export - the main one being that it doesn't seem to recognise any hierachy of nodes. Second up, you need an older version of Python to work with the newer version of the Blender Collada exporter.

So either Blender 2.44 with Python2.5, or Blender 2.48 with Python 2.4x. I have successfully exported a basic Collada file as a cahced.dts but not much beyond that.

The Blender/Collada exporter seems to have had discontinued support for over 2 years, but sometimes that's the price to pay with open source. :/