Collada plug-in for Blender

Progress

Planned for next release

We are currently working on the following items:

Materials / Textures

Roadmap

Textures
Animation
Skinning
Physics

Requirements

Below, you will find a complete list of requirements from the Collada 1.4.0 Specification. Any full compliant Collada tool must support the entire specification of data represented below. This ensures quality and conformance to the purpose of Collada.

The symbols used in this requirements list are:

o - Not started jet
x - in progress
t - ready for testing
v - Finished
* - Optional Item

Hierarchy and Transforms

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Name	Description	Status API import	Status API export	Status Import	Status Export
Translation	Translations	t	t	t	t
Scaling	Scales	t	t	t	t
Rotation	Rotation	t	t	t	t
Parenting	Parent Relationships	t	t	t	t
Static object instantiation	Instances of static objects. Such an object can have multiple transforms	t	t	t	o
Animated object instantiation	Instances of animated objects. Such an object can have multiple transforms	o	o	o	o
Skewing	Skews	t	o	o	t
Transparency / Reflectivity	Additional material parameters for transparency and reflectivity	o	o	o	o
Texture-mapping method	A texture-mapping method (e.g., cylindrical, spherical, etc.)	t	t	t	t
Transform with no geometry	It must be possible to transform something with no geometry (e.g.,locator, NULL)	t	t	t	t
Matrix *	Matrix transformation	t	t	t	t
Lookat *	Lookat transformation	t	t	t	o

Materials and Textures

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Name	Description	Status Import	Status Export
RGB textures	An arbitrary number of RGB textures	o	o
RGBA textures	An arbitrary number of RGBA textures	o	o
Baked Procedural Texture Coordinates	Baked procedural texture coordinates	o	o
Common profile material	A common profile material (e.g., PHONG, LAMBERT, etc.)	o	t
Multitexturing	Multiple textures per material	o	o
Per-face material	Per-face materials	t	t

Vertex Attributes

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Name	Description	Status Import	Status Export
Vertex texture coordinates	An arbitrary number of Texture Coordinates per vertex	o	o
Vertex normals	Vertex normals	t	t
Vertex binormals	Vertex binormals	o	o
Vertex tangents	Vertex tangents	o	o
Vertex UV coordinates	Vertex UV coordinates (distinct from texture coordinates)	o	o
Vertex colors	Vertex colors	t	t
Custom vertex attributes	Custom vertex attributes	o	o

Animations

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Name	Description	Status Import	Status Export
Variable sampling rate	Using a variable sampling rate for animations. This allows a user to specify different sampling rates for different portions of the animation to be exported	o	o
Bind-pose normals	Bind-pose normals	o	o
Bones	Boned animations	t	t
Skeletal animation	Skeletal animations	t	t
Skeletal animation with smooth binding	Skeletal animations with smooth binding	o	o
Animation of light parameters	Animated light parameters	o	o
Camera animation	Animated cameras	o	o
Key-frame animation of transforms	Animated transforms with key-frames	o	o
Animation function curves	Animation function curves	o	o

Scene Data

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Name	Description	Status Import	Status Export
Object Properties	Object Properties	t	t
Empty nodes	Empty nodes	t	t
Cameras	Cameras	t	t
Spotlights	Spotlights	x	x
Directional lights	Directional lights	x	x
Point lights	Point lights	x	x
Area lights	Ambient lights	o	o
Ambient lights	Animated cameras	x	x
Bounding boxes for static objects	Bounding boxes for static objects	o	o
Bounding boxes for animated objects	Bounding boxes for animated objects	o	o

Importer Options

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Name	Description	Status Import	Status Export
Import Library *	Import all the items in the libraries, even if there is no node which refers to this item	o	o

Exporter Options

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Name	Description	Status Import	Status Export
Export triangle	list Triangle lists	t	t
Export polygon	list Polygon lists	o	o
Bake matrices	Baked matrices	o	o
Single <matrix> element	An instance document that contains only a single <matrix> element for each node.	o	o