<div dir="ltr">Yes, I should have mentioned I am using the latest version of Blender (2.65a).<div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><font color="#999999">--</font></div><div><div><font color="#999999">William Hilton</font></div>
<div><font color="#999999">MET-lab PhD Student, </font><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">ECE Department, </span><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Drexel University</span></div><div><font color="#999999">Website: </font><a href="http://music.ece.drexel.edu/people/wmhilton" target="_blank">http://music.ece.drexel.edu/people/wmhilton</a></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:00 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robotics-request@blender.org" target="_blank">robotics-request@blender.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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1. Re: COLLADA 1.5 armature support? (S?verin Lemaignan)<br>
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From: S?verin Lemaignan <<a href="mailto:severin.lemaignan@laas.fr">severin.lemaignan@laas.fr</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Robotics] COLLADA 1.5 armature support?<br>
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There's recent work on the Collada importer in Blender (in 2.65, as far<br>
as I remember). Did you try with this latest version?<br>
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On 02/02/2013 11:26 PM, William Hilton wrote:<br>
> Does anyone know what the status of importing the kinematics portion of<br>
> COLLADA 1.5 files into Blender is? My university has an OpenRAVE model<br>
> of the Hubo+ robot, and I would like to import it into a 3D animation<br>
> package (like Blender) to do character rigging, with the ultimate goal<br>
> of designing motions in Blender and exporting the joint angles at each<br>
> frame so we can play back the motions on the robot. The OpenRAVE model<br>
> can be exported to COLLADA 1.5 .dae file, but when I import into<br>
> Blender, it does not import the kinematic chain as an armature. I could<br>
> add an armature by hand, but the OpenRAVE model is a living document<br>
> that is constantly being updated, so I would like to have a pretty<br>
> automatic OpenRAVE to Blender conversion.<br>
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> I found a post from Sept. 2011 saying they were "working on importing<br>
> and exporting kinematics related data to blender," but that was over a<br>
> year ago.<br>
> <a href="http://openrave-users-list.185357.n3.nabble.com/blender-support-for-collada-1-5-tp3357898p3358208.html" target="_blank">http://openrave-users-list.185357.n3.nabble.com/blender-support-for-collada-1-5-tp3357898p3358208.html</a><br>
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> --<br>
> William Hilton<br>
> MET-lab PhD Student, ECE Department, Drexel University<br>
> Website: <a href="http://music.ece.drexel.edu/people/wmhilton" target="_blank">http://music.ece.drexel.edu/people/wmhilton</a><br>
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