[Bf-committers] Collada importer/exporter kickout export crytek

[angjminer at gulftel.com]

Quoting Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>:
> Hi,
>
> The Collada conformance suite is not working, and working on it won't help
> anything. 
> I wrote about this here;
> http://code.blender.org/index.php/2011/10/collada-momentum/
>
> Collada just has no reference stakeholder(s) (like how fbx was native for
> motionbuilder). 
> Blender would be the worst stakeholder for it even, since we have the awesome
> .blend :)
>
> Much better stakeholders would be Linden Labs (2nd life), or 
> CryTek... or Daz?
> Three names of companies who make plenty of dollars with software 
> licensing. Why
> don't they put an employee as developer in our team, to ensure 
> Collada exports
> smoothly for their products?
>
> I even wouldn't mind a (python) addon "Export to DazCollada, CryCollada,
> 2ndLifeCollada, etc. It's how collada has been designed to work anyway... 
>
> -Ton-
>
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> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands
I have actually been thinking about that, we had talked in an email 
earlier (cryblend). 
and i really didnt like the idea of forking off . just wanted to get 
people going as quickly as possible. 
just about got animation clips to export, but i really want people to 
benefit from the constant improvements in blender, not get held back by 
a version freeze, i will be more than happy to do a crytek collada 
exporter, cryblend is popular enough to warrant it and it would benefit 
everyone. 
it would allow me to include running the rc.exe from the exporter, only 
thing is ,,,,,,, I will be bugging you guys to death in the beginning , 
If that is not going to be a problem then that's what i will do,
just need you guys to suggest a base to start from.(juan if you read 
this... do you mind?)
angjminer