Collada lighting crazyness.

#1 Sounds like it doesn't have good normals.

Load it as a TSStatic into Torque 3D. In the inspector find the 'renderNormals' field and set it to 1.

If you have good normals on your object you should see a bunch of colored lines of the same 1 meter length... these are the normals.

If you don't see lines your normals haven't been exported properly.

#2 I use the DTS exporter and it comes out fine though and both have the exact same things in the inspector thing. It only does it the Collada file.
I can send you the file in the morning if you want to take a look. it is not just the one Collada file they all seem to be doing it. DTS files using the Exporter work come out perfect as well.

#3 Sure... email me the Collada file, textures, and material.cs.

#4 nevermind, I sorted it out it was over on the second page of the collada export dialog there is a "export xsi normals" check box that I was not checking I was just using the defaults.

Thanks for offering to help though I appreciate it.

one more question though there seems to be a difference in scale. When I use the XSI 2 DTS exporter to export say the torque orc I get a mesh that is the exact same as the dts from the the stronghold mission but when I use collada I have to scale my mesh by a factor of 10x to match the size of the same model exported via DTS.

Any Thoughts?

#5 There is usually a unit conversion that occurs. In the DAE file if you open it up you'll see near the top...

<unit meter="1.000000" />

That is what defines the size of a meter in the Collada file. This should be set properly by the XSI exporter, so i would look for some other setting your missing there.

#6 there is not setting for scale in the collada exporter at least it is something that is easy to figure out. it is exactly x10 to match DTS exported objects.

#7 If its 10x like you say it sounds like XSI has its units set to decimeters.