[Bf-committers] Collada importer/exporter kickout

[Morten Mikkelsen]

As an example of people having problems with its complexity OpenCollada
doesn't drain collada sources correctly at all.
They make many assumptions such as data being non interleaved.



On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Juan Linietsky <reduzio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Francesco Zoffoli <makers.f at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I'm just curious: why can't an external library be used?
> >
> >
>
> I think the biggest problem with Collada is that the specification seems
> like something huge and complex, so most people resorts to a library, which
> in turn ends up in something even more bigger and complex with several
> layers of complexiity that is a nightmare to maintain.
> In reality, Collada is a very simple format that is very easy to parse, but
> it definitely takes some work to really grasp and understand all of it,
> because it's very  flexible (way too much more than needed I think). I also
> wish it was more mantained and better documented at this point, too because
> most official examples are either broken or incompatible with the
> specification.
>
> Cheers
>
> Juan Linietsky
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