[Robotics] COLLADA 1.5 armature support?

[Séverin Lemaignan]

There's recent work on the Collada importer in Blender (in 2.65, as far 
as I remember). Did you try with this latest version?

Cheers,
Severin

On 02/02/2013 11:26 PM, William Hilton wrote:
> Does anyone know what the status of importing the kinematics portion of
> COLLADA 1.5 files into Blender is? My university has an OpenRAVE model
> of the Hubo+ robot, and I would like to import it into a 3D animation
> package (like Blender) to do character rigging, with the ultimate goal
> of designing motions in Blender and exporting the joint angles at each
> frame so we can play back the motions on the robot. The OpenRAVE model
> can be exported to COLLADA 1.5 .dae file, but when I import into
> Blender, it does not import the kinematic chain as an armature. I could
> add an armature by hand, but the OpenRAVE model is a living document
> that is constantly being updated, so I would like to have a pretty
> automatic OpenRAVE to Blender conversion.
>
> I found a post from Sept. 2011 saying they were "working on importing
> and exporting kinematics related data to blender," but that was over a
> year ago.
> http://openrave-users-list.185357.n3.nabble.com/blender-support-for-collada-1-5-tp3357898p3358208.html
>
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