Devin Johnston Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Does anyone know why one format would be better than the other? I know 3DS is old and Collada is newer but does Collada have any advantages over 3DS or vice versa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronrumple Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Collada has a lot over 3DS. 3DS is pretty primitive. Collada supports physics and other animation information. Autodesk has their own FBX format as a competitor to Collada. Google is supporting Collada (game over). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devin Johnston Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 Cool thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Google is supporting Collada (game over). Is supporting or going to support? http://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/google-sketchup-makes-collada-the-official-first-class-format/ I've never played around with it till today, I wanted to see if it could be used to bring a max model (cameras included) into sketchup.... I can get the .dae out of 3dsmax but haven't figured out how to get it into sketchup. Is there an extension that has to be added on the sketchup side as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronrumple Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Is supporting or going to support? http://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/google-sketchup-makes-collada-the-official-first-class-format/ I've never played around with it till today, I wanted to see if it could be used to bring a max model (cameras included) into sketchup.... I can get the .dae out of 3dsmax but haven't figured out how to get it into sketchup. Is there an extension that has to be added on the sketchup side as well? Is supporting. You'll find a lot of the Google Warehouse has downloadable Collada models. This from Google's help: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=140408 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Oops.... so the software update that I always put off added the import .dae function. I was still running on pro v7 ..... 7.1 fixed the problem. Unfortunately it didn't bring in the cameras like I was hoping, but it does look to be a nice clean import. I'd kill to figure out a workflow that I can get my max cameras and models back into sketchup to generate linework as an overlay for NPR work. Was hoping this one would do it.... so far no luck. The max export says it's exporting camera data, but it doesn't appear to come in on the sketchup end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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