<div dir="ltr">OpenCollada exporter works *extremely* well for Maya and 3DS Max. The spec is simple and suports most common features. It' s only outdated in the materials section (does not support PBR).<div>Collada is supported in most game engines already, but it's buggy because most people prefers FBX.</div><div><br></div><div>Doesn't it make more sense to support it properly in Blender first, and then work with engine developers to fix their importers?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Timur Ariman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timur_ariman@yahoo.de" target="_blank">timur_ariman@yahoo.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Adding new formats to replace the problematic old ones is a good idea for the long run.<br>
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The concerns of metallandy are spot on! Please if possible keep maintaining FBX as long as necessary<br>
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since that is for now the only bridge we as game artists have.<br>
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regarding USD<br>
- has abilities to move data from Maya/Modo/Mari/Mudbox/Photshop to Houdini/Maya/Katana/Prman/Nuke<br>
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- builds on same concepts as, and integrates with, Alembic<br>
- Scenes can be live,editable throughout the pipeline<br>
- can be used as wrapper for alembic, obj,caf,slo<br>
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- direct file I/O for Maya given from Pixar<br>
- no rigging I/O available and no specifications available<br>
- only pointcache support for animations.<br>
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regarding glTF<br>
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- supports keyframe animations and skinning<br>
- Adobe wants to use it too...<br>
- at first sounds promising but regarding 3D programs<br>
Autodesk only works on fbx/collada to glTF converters<br>
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and not on a real Import/epxorter for glTF.<br>
For now this format will be an island solution since Autodesk doesn´t have it in their pipeline yet.<br>
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After or if possible during integration of the fileformat into Blender,<br>
adding big game engine developers for implementing the same interchange format<br>
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should be a given!<br>
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Cheers,Timur<br>
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