[Bf-committers] Collada Development (moving forward)

[Toni Alatalo]

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:26 +0000, Domino Marama wrote:
> Second Life doesn't use animations from Collada, so it's only suitable
> for testing mesh and rig.It uses bvh (and a custom .anim format) for
> animations - so it's a good test for whether Collada rigging is
> consistent with bvh export of animations, but not for animations directly.

We have been using Blender's Collada export for the WebGL based GLGE
engine (is open source), in realXtend's early/experimental WebNaali
client (sometimes used similarily as SL).

GLGE uses everything from Collada, including skeletal animations, and we
have working tests of animated characters from Blender (originally
authored for Ogre) to GLGE where animation playback works.

So we can ensure that while you improve static geom & bvh animation use
for SL, the Blender Collada export for animated meshes+skels to GLGE
doesn't break. I can put a little working demo up now with the current
exports and update it when changes are made in Blender.

> Domino

~Toni