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<DIV>Hi Juan --</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the link to your DAE exporter. It will be a useful reference.
And I’m glad to hear about your plans to support OpenGEX in Godot.</DIV>
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<DIV>You’re likely aware that OpenGEX supports multiple animations in the same
file. I’m planning to add support for those in the Maya / Max exporters soon,
and I’ll take care of it in the Blender exporter as well. There simply wasn’t
time in the first iteration.</DIV>
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<DIV>I’ll see what can be done about relative paths. OpenGEX does support those,
but they are relative to the OpenGEX file, which may be in a different location
than the Blender file. This may be problematic, but I haven’t looked into it
yet.</DIV>
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<DIV>-- Eric</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=reduzio@gmail.com
href="mailto:reduzio@gmail.com">Juan Linietsky</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 08, 2014 6:34 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=bf-gamedev@blender.org
href="mailto:bf-gamedev@blender.org">bf-gamedev@blender.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=golab.przemyslaw@gmail.com
href="mailto:golab.przemyslaw@gmail.com">Przemyslaw Golab</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bf-gamedev] Perhaps consider OpenGEX instead of
FBX/Collada?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Hi Eric, I'm glad you have decided to make the exporter yourself, I
was afraid someone would attempt to do an exporter and would end up like the
rest of the broken exporters in Blender. As soon as you publish it, I'll add
support in Godot immediately.
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<DIV>If it helps you as reference, here is my own Collada exporter (which is
almost feature complete):</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="https://github.com/okamstudio/godot/tree/master/tools/export/blender25">https://github.com/okamstudio/godot/tree/master/tools/export/blender25</A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Here's some requests though:</DIV>
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<DIV>1) As said before, please add an option for exporting all clips (Actions)
from the scene instead of the main animation. This is probably tricky because
actions use relative paths, so they can be reused between objects. I have found
that the most correct way to do this is the following:</DIV>
<DIV> a) Go through all actions and all armatures (or
objets).</DIV>
<DIV> b) Only export animation tracks for objects that match
the path for each curve </DIV>
<DIV> If in doubt you can check my python code (relevant portion
is</DIV>
<DIV>here): <A
href="https://github.com/okamstudio/godot/blob/master/tools/export/blender25/io_scene_dae/export_dae.py#L1162">https://github.com/okamstudio/godot/blob/master/tools/export/blender25/io_scene_dae/export_dae.py#L1162</A></DIV>
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<DIV>2) Please respect blender's ability to use relative paths to images. This
way ogex files can be pushed to version control and opened somewhere else, or
shared in asset exchange sites.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for your work!</DIV>
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<DIV>Juan</DIV>
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