Collada anyone?

[cronodragon]

Anyone here is using Collada or have used it? I need someone that could help me understand how the skined animation is interpreted. I can read the models, but don't know how to apply the skinning in Collada.

Regards!

[Sly]

I've read about Collada, but never tried to use it.

[noeska]

Collada supports an xsd (version 141) file that should be importable into delphi 2005, but how?

Import it using the webservice wsdl wizzard, complains about a missing soap entry in the xsd file.
Convert it using xsd.exe - Does not seem to know delphi. Should be able to i believe.
Adding the xsd file to my project - right click on it convert to generate dataset gives error on missing line

<xs&#58;import namespace="http&#58;//www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" schemaLocation="http&#58;//www.w3.org/2001/03/xml.xsd"/>

but the line is there? Also visual basic 2003 .net complains about this.

Any help on using xsd files?

[cronodragon]

Maybe it's a bug. You should ask at Collada's forum.

[noeska]

Posting a bugreport on the collada bugtracker got me the answer to buy visual studio 2005 :evil: http://www.khronos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12

I could use some info (tutorials e.g.) on converting .xsd files to code or typeddatasets.
I realy think the ms xsd.exe tools should be able to the trick only i do not know how to use it.

[cronodragon]

I have had bad experiences with Collada too. I'm stuck with the skins. I'm making my own interpreter for that format since I'm using Delphi, and the libraries for Collada are in C++, I think I'll have to go thru the painful way of translating C code to Pascal. On the other hand, I haven't found any good article about skinning that could help me.

Anyway, when I had questions about Collada, I asked this guy:
glaforte@feelingsoftware.com

I think they are the creators of the official Max plugin.