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Galun · 16th January 2011, 05:15 PM

I miss the grouping in the Collada export. An exported file from AC3D is flat without any parent-child relationship in DAZ Studio and all the object centers appear to be at 0/0/0.
In the Collada file every object is listed in "visual_scene" without a local translation one after the other.

What it should look like (at least for DAZ Studio) is that there is one or more node in visual_scene which would be the WORLD node. Inside all top-level groups are mentioned in "nodes". It would just be a representation of what you see in the hierarchy view in AC3D.
Every node in the "visual_scene" hierarchy can have its own translation, rotation and scale.

I think it should make the exporter even simpler as it reflects what we see in the .ac format. If somebody really needs all objects to be on the same level he can ungroup just before exporting.

16th January 2011, 05:15 PM	#3
Galun Member Expert member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 51	Re: Collada Dae I miss the grouping in the Collada export. An exported file from AC3D is flat without any parent-child relationship in DAZ Studio and all the object centers appear to be at 0/0/0. In the Collada file every object is listed in "visual_scene" without a local translation one after the other. What it should look like (at least for DAZ Studio) is that there is one or more node in visual_scene which would be the WORLD node. Inside all top-level groups are mentioned in "nodes". It would just be a representation of what you see in the hierarchy view in AC3D. Every node in the "visual_scene" hierarchy can have its own translation, rotation and scale. I think it should make the exporter even simpler as it reflects what we see in the .ac format. If somebody really needs all objects to be on the same level he can ungroup just before exporting.