OpenCOLLADA

A stream based reader and writer library for COLLADA files

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2013-03-26: OpenCOLLADA Tools Updated

Support for Maya 2010-2013, x86 and x64 on Snow Leopard
see Download section for details
complete list of changes on GitHub
discarded binary support for Maya versions below 2010

2011-01-31: Major Update for Maya (Mac OS X Snow Leopard)

Support for Maya 2010, 2011 x86 and x64 on Snow Leopard
see Download section for details
complete list of changes on Google Code (removed)
discarded binary support for Maya versions below 2010

2011-01-15: Major Update for Max and Maya (Windows)!

Support for Max/Maya 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 x86 and x64
see Download section for details
complete list of changes on Google Code (removed)

2009-11-13: Minor Updates for 3ds Max, Maya and Validator available. New dae2ma converter!

set name attribute of element to the original material name
export bind vertex input
bug fix (crash if dae file contains more than one uv set)
standalone COLLADA to Maya converter (dae2ma)
updated COLLADAValidator binaries
fix crash on morph target export

2009-10-09: Major Updates for 3ds Max, Maya and Validator available

This is a performance related release. Export performance for Max and Maya has been increased by factor ten!
Thanks to the great work of Arseny Kapoulkine we identified major bottelnecks and have already fixed them.

Changelog for 3ds Max (1.2.4)

Performance improvement for exporter
Bug fix for meshes that contain linestrips
Rename from NextGen to OpenCOLLADA
Import nodes of type joint as bones into max

Changelog for Maya (1.2.1)

Performance improvement for exporter
Bug fix for meshes that contain linestrips

Current performance comparison for exporting from Maya measured with an autogenerated file

FBX (binary) 150s
FCOLLADA 25s
OpenCOLLADA 9s

Updated packages are available in the download sections. Updated packages for Mac OS X next week.

2009-09-18: Update for 3ds Max available - version 1.2.2

This is a bugfix release resolving errors that have been spotted in the 1.2.1 version.Please update immediately.
Further improvements include:

Option in export dialog to export user defined properties of max nodes
Fix bug in export of new lines in user defined properties
Option in export dialog to copy texture images
Option in export dialog to use relative paths for images
Options in export dialog are saved and loaded, i.e. the dialog always shows the last set options
No export of wire frame materials of none mesh nodes
Correct miss spelled extra parameter "ambient_diffuse_lexture_lock" to "ambient_diffuse_texture_lock"
Add policy merge module to fix bug with 32bit Max on 64bit Windows

Updated packages are available in the download sections.

2009-09-17: Update for 3ds Max available - version 1.2.1

Major enhancement is included in this new release: support to load COLLADA files that reference other files. The entire model is imported into one Max scene. That feature has been requested by many users and we are happy to have one of the top priority items finally included. The OpenCOLLADA SDK on http://code.google.com/p/opencollada/ has been updated accordingly (Located on Github since 2013). Further improvements include:

Export user defined properties of Max nodes into an extra element of the corresponding COLLADA node
Do not export the unused black effect of the root node

Updated packages are available in the download sections.

2009-09-14: Migrated to Google Code

After having technical difficulties we move our code repository from SourceForge to Google Code.
The new place for our source code is at http://code.google.com/p/opencollada/ (Located on Github since 2013)

2009-09-14: 3ds Max version updated

Next major release of OpenCOLLADA for 3ds Max has been released today: Version 1.2.0. Up to five times faster than exporting to a binary FBX file and over ten times faster than using the FBX/COLLADA.

2009-09-07: More documents...

Short presentation uploaded at OpenCOLLADA techniques.pdf

2009-08-31: Twittering

2009-07-30: Version 1.1.0 available

OpenCOLLADA for 3ds Max and Maya are available for immediate Download!
What's new:

Windows 32bit and 64bit releases for 3ds Max 8,9,2008,2009,2010 and Maya 2008/2009
Mac OS X releases for Maya 2008/2009
Google Warehouse integration into 3ds Max
Full support for importing and exporting COLLADA 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 files
Unrivaled performance

2009-07-29: New COLLADA Validator available

An OpenCOLLADA based Validator for COLLADA 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 files is available for immediate Download!
What's included in this release:

Stream based validation
Command line interface
Full support for validating COLLADA 1.4.1 and 1.5.0 files
Unrivaled performance