Wes,

Thanks for the quick responce. I did try that plug-in Friday and in past. Unfortunitly, I either didn’t set up the prefrences up correctly, or my programmer really can’t read .dae files. Since I don’t have a viewer to test animation after generating that file, wasn’t sure if he could use it. My file said it was 121KB, but he said their wasn’t “anything there”.

I did find another plug-in called OpenCollada http://code.google.com/p/opencollada/downloads/

mentioned here in another forum. Not sure if that will work for him or not, awaiting responce back. My programmer uses JMonkey as his engine so it’s been a real issue getting animations excepted into out end product.

For the last year we’ve been generating .flt models, but animations don’t transfer across. And since I build the models it’s been a real task to figure how to get them and animations out for my programmer.

Since he dosn’t care about the model itself, just code it’s been a real problem for me. Two people who work two different sides of the project is difficult to come together with the same dialogue at times.

Anyway, what I was wondering is if you have used the OPenCollada, or someone on your staff, and could tell me how to effectively utilize it’s preferences if my programmer still has problems with Friday’s animation test?

I’ll check back later in hopes you see this.

-Thanks
Susan
Lead Modeler

I’ve gone through all of the settings and cannot get my animation to export. I’ve tried baking in the animation with no luck. I also noticed that the UV maps or texture info is not exporting as well. Does anybody have a solution for this?

we are working on a project which requires collada 3D as a plug in. we downloaded it and did according to the installation text. but when we went to the plug in manager in maya to load the plug in, it was not getting loaded(the tick not coming). we can not proceed with out the plugin properly loaded..... it would be of great help if u can tell us a way to fix it as soon as possible..... and can you tell us which maya and collada version is the best to use????

That’s good and bad news. Luckily, There’s just myself and my animator for the time being and then our programing guys. Of course passing data around to my other teams may pose to be an issue later. At least now we are on the right track to provide our clients what they have been asking for. Or course our next challenge is to get facial animations and dynamics to come across, but the way this projects going we aren’t going to get that far.

I am actually working models for two game engines, and trying to get models across both has been difficult to say the least.

Thank you and I will note your comments and pass them along to my team.

-Susan