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Sample Collada Animation

Started by daimyo Jul 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM 5 replies 8.5k views

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Jul 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM

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!

Tutorial Doctor

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Tutorial Doctor

Jul 21, 2014 at 4:19 PM

Blendswap might have some.

Might be some here also.

Don Carnage

Jul 21, 2014 at 4:22 PM

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

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

daimyo

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daimyo

Jul 21, 2014 at 11:53 PM

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!

Waaayoff

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Waaayoff

Jul 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM

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.

gameloop.io

Jul 31, 2014 at 9:55 AM

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