skrat / bpycollada

Blender COLLADA importer using pycollada

Blender COLLADA import/export

This IO addon is based on pycollada library. It was created as a replacement for current Blender 2.5, OpenCOLLADA/C++ export/import, which is buggy and suffers from external dependencies.

COLLADA 1.4.1 features (import)

• Geometry

  • Triangle mesh
  • Polylist (quads)

• Rendering

  • Constant, Lambert, Phong and Blinn shaders
  • Textures with alpha channel
  • Reflectivity
  • Transparency

• Camera

  • Perspective
  • Orthographic

Blender features (export)

• Triangle/Quad meshes (using COLLADA triangles and polylist)
• Smoothing groups (separate primitive sets for smooth and flat faces)
• Object parenting (using COLLADA nodes)