[Bf-committers] GSoC 2009 Proposal Draft: Collada Support Improvements For Blender

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Erwin Coumans (works with collada people) advised us to look at this  
instead:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/collada-dom

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 27 Mar, 2009, at 18:38, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A quick research on fcollada reveiled that the project was dropped over
> a year ago by their creators, they continued it as closed source.
>
> http://www.feelingsoftware.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,86/
> topic,735.0/lang,en
>
> It still could mean that the old code is very good, but it would help
> to consult open source users of this system to validate it. And
> especially if there's interest by people to maintain or continue it?
>
> -Ton-
>
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands
>
> On 27 Mar, 2009, at 16:10, Kent Mein wrote:
>
>> In reply to Chingiz Dyussenov (chingiz.ds at gmail.com):
>>>    COLLADA SUPPORT IMPROVEMENTS FOR BLENDER
>>
>> Hi Chingiz,
>>
>> Great proposal.  I would only change one thing.
>>
>> At the beginning you sort of hint that your not set on fcollada, and
>> say it will need to be determined at the beginning if you should use
>> fcollada or not.  Then the rest of the proposal is basically saying
>> that you've already decided fcollada is the way to go.
>>
>> It sounds to me like your concerned not everyone will agree that
>> fcollada is the way forward so you put that in the beginning.  I think
>> you have made a good case for using fcollada, take out the wishy washy
>> bit and your good to go.  If your still not sure, I think you should
>> try to make the decision before the project starts and commit to
>> a game plan.
>>
>> Nice detail though.  I like this project.
>>
>> Kent
>>
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