[Soc-2012-dev] Weekly Report 4 (COLLADA improvements)

[Sukhitha Jayathilake]

Hi!

What I did this week :
To focus on the importing of constraints, There must be enough detail
exported
to properly reconstruct after reimporting so added more details on the
export of
constraints. To properly map the constraint to target objects on import,
the object
SIDs or URIs must be exported with the constraint, but after going through
opencollada
code found opencollada doesn't provide methods to address other objects in
extra tags.
So instead as an alternative exported target object name with the
constraint data.

Also since there are some issues with armature exporting, had a look at
that area also.
Made wiki notes on it.
more details on :
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Phabtar/Improve_COLLADA_constrained_animations_and_Morph_animation_support./Diary

What I will do next week:
- finish work on constraint import
- IK constraint export and import.
- Test with user support.

Problems faced during the period:
Main problem is addressing constraint targets on export, quick and dirty
solution
is to export the name of the targets. Better way needs to be concocted,
because
AFAIK, Opencollada doesn't have support for that.

Cheers,
phabtar
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