[Bf-committers] Collada importer/exporter kickout

Morten Mikkelsen mikkelsen7 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 02:34:42 CET 2012


I agree, I could also live with ditching the importer if it meant keeping
the exporter.
But either way I'll take current collada version to no collada version at
all.



On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:11 PM, skoti <skoti48 at o2.pl> wrote:

> Assimp only importer (exporter in blender is the most important), and
> even in assimp Collada importer is weak. Blender use external library
> for Collada (OpenCollada libs).
>
> Collada format is an important and IMO it should not be removed. Collada
> is used in many game engine, engine Web3D (WebGL or flash engine), and
> everywhere, where we exchange information.
>
> It seems to me that it is better to leave the exporter in the trunk than
> reduce the functionality of the program (for many it becomes useless -
> now an exporter / importer, blender works well with programs based on
> OpenCollada / FCollada / Collada DOM - works better than autodesk
> exporter (creates files "Collada-like ")).
> > I'm just curious: why can't an external library be used?
> >
> > I know about Assimp, i double checked and it seams that it supports
> collada
> > import/export(at least they say so on their site, and i think it is full
> > support since it isn't marked with an * [2][3]). It also has a C or C++
> API.
> > The licence is (a kind of [4])BSD, is this a problem?
> > This would offload main devs from format support. In addition blender
> would
> > be able to import/export all the format the external library already
> > handles. And in case specific files must be supported, this can be
> archived
> > with python or a specific imp/exporter.
> >
> > Is there a reason why blender shouldn't rely on an existing library, or
> > it's a licence/features problem with the existing ones?
> >
> >
> > [1] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/index.html
> > [2] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_formats.html
> > [3] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_features_export.html
> > [4] http://assimp.sourceforge.net/main_license.html
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