[Robotics] COLLADA 1.5 armature support?

[William Hilton]

Yes, I should have mentioned I am using the latest version of Blender
(2.65a).
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William Hilton
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:00 AM, <robotics-request at blender.org> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:48:10 +0100
> From: S?verin Lemaignan <severin.lemaignan at laas.fr>
> Subject: Re: [Robotics] COLLADA 1.5 armature support?
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> 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?
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> Cheers,
> Severin
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> 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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