What's the situation with Collada?

linda00145 · October 3, 2015, 10:29am

sal:

rdb:

COLLADA does not specify explicit support for anything but the most basic types of materials. This means that every modelling program ends up either not supporting basic features like normal maps or PBR maps, or they have to write their own extension to do the same thing.

The spec is rather broad and vague in several areas, particularly skinning, which ends up meaning that every modelling program has their own idea of how things like skinning matrices should look. This means that supporting every possible modelling program that can export some form of COLLADA is a pain.

I see.
When has this been checked the last time? I mean comparison of different modelling programs/exporters? Things might have changed in the last few years. I know 3dsmax and Maya both have several exporters now. Maybe some of them store data in a more similar way.

If you want, I could try them all (Blender, Max, Maya) and see if anything has changed in this regard. Just tell me what data will need to be exported and tested in Panda.

Things not might be it has changed from years.