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kaylon · Member Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 45 Location: Dundee

Would be superb if you supported collada as an export format...would open up a lot of doors...especially for anyone considering deleoping using the excellent C4 engine...

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Paul-Jan · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:16 am Post subject:

You are absolutely right! Collada support is already on our list, mainly because we think the C4 engine is pretty cool. Very Happy

The only drawback is that we don't really want to buy the engine just to test the output from the exporter (even though it's really cheap: it's more or less an 'on principle' thing). Maybe we'll drop Eric Lengyel a line to see if we can get a limited license or anything. Offtopic: Eric is our hero, Jeroen and me both have his excellent mathematics book.

jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

As business men, you might need to look at it in a business light: How many licenses of DeleD would you sell if you had C4 support? Then compare that to the cost of the engine (small), and the amount of work involved (large). The principle can't really be "spend no money" -- well, at least not for long :-)

Anyway, there are other tools that read Collada. Do you own one of the big modelers, such as 3dsmax?

Paul-Jan · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:11 pm Post subject:

True, but wouldn't the C4 engine benefit from support by another modeler as well? The toolset supporting Collada is steadily growing, but in the past the lack of tools was a real issue for C4 (imho... plus the collada format itself wasn't exactly up to par until recently). That's the 'on principle' part... and no, it doesn't make much sense businesswise, and yes, we'll end up buying the engine anyway Very Happy

[edit]: Just read the latest Collada does support multiple layers of uv, so exporting lightmaps becomes an option. Yay![/edit]

holger53 · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject:

Using C4 I would like to see an collada export option.

If you would confirm to develop such an exporter I

would definitly buy DeleD 3D pro.

I have the same wishes for a map importer for I still using torque.

(But ok, that's another thread Wink

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Paul-Jan · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

There will definitely be a Collada exporter. If we get the DeleD 1.5 release out on schedule, development on such an exporter will most likely start the second half of august. And be finished shortly after, as Collada is rather straightforward.

If such an exporter is an absolute requirement for you, you might want to simply wait for that. However, if you would decide the current version of DeleD PRO already offers enough added value to get it, we are not exactly holding you back... Wink

holger53 · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:31 pm Post subject:

Paul-Jan,

thanks fior the answer.

When will 1.5 come out?

Jeroen · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject:

holger53 · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jeroen,

is there a feature list of 1.5?

Would like to compare it with 3WDS.

Guyon · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

Jeroen · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:21 pm Post subject:

holger53 · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks Guyon and Jeroen,

Jeroen · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

Daaark · Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: