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Sample Collada Animation

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5 comments, last by analivia 9 years, 8 months ago

I'm trying to write a Collada parser to import animated meshes into my game. Previously, I had written one for Wavefront .OBJ files - and the process was (relatively) easy: open up the specification, open up a sample .OBJ file, and keep trying until it worked.

However, I'm having a harder time with Collada. I've got the huge specification file - but I can't seem to find any example Collada (.dae) files containing animation. It seems like there used to be a few repositories, but now they all return 404 errors.

Does anyone have any simple model I can play with?

Thanks!

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Blendswap might have some.

Might be some here also.

They call me the Tutorial Doctor.

Tree.js has a Collada loader. They had this among their examples:

http://threejs.org /examples/models/collada/monster/monster.dae

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Tree.js has a Collada loader. They had this among their examples:

http://threejs.org /examples/models/collada/monster/monster.dae

Thanks - this looks great!

Is there a reason why you want to code the importer yourself and not just use one of the many tools out there such as Assimp? It will save you a lot of headaches and let you focus on your game.

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Hi, as it happens I have developed a Collada loader in C# a few years ago. The basics all work (materials, textures including normal maps, joints/bones, bone animations).

So if you want some example code and Collada models, take a look at this GitHub repo:

https://github.com/Bunkerbewohner/ColladaXna

The library was originally developed for usage with XNA, but also works indepedently.

The repository contains two animated DAE files under ColladaXna Standard Sample / ColladaXna Standard SampleContent.

A very simple one with only two joints and a more complex one.

Mathias

Currently working on https://nationsonline.net - turn-based multiplayer 4X browser game

thanks a bunch for sharing this info guys

http://jogarjogosdemoto.com/

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