Blender COLLADA import/export

This IO addon is based on pycollada <http://pycollada.github.com/>_ library. It was created as a replacement for current Blender <http://www.blender.org/>_ 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)