Is COLLADA a dead format?

opengl 3d format collada
Sonoman picture Sonoman · Dec 7, 2010 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I've been reading lots of musings on the net that COLLADA is a dead file format? In that applications are not updating their support for it etc. Is this true? It was originally designed to be a format that could be almost application independant so my question is in 2 parts. Is it a dead format? And if so, what is the current accepted format to maximise inter-application development (and to use with OpenGL applications)?

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collada picture collada · Dec 7, 2010

Most applications are supporting COLLADA, new support is announced all the time. Follow COLLADA on twitter to get daily updates... far to be dead. Hard to keep track in fact.

BTW, Khronos just released the COLLADA reference card. free at http://www.khronos.org/files/collada_reference_card_1_4.pdf , making it easier to implement.

Still the missing piece was the conformance test, to make sure applications are correctly following the specification, and it has been released recently

In short, expect improved support, more applications, better interoperability. One thing for sure is COLLADA is a published standard, (as opposed to be a proprietary technology), so it is there to stay and safe to invest in as it is not impacted by mergers, bankruptcies, change in company policies...

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also, we are in the process of rebuilding collada.org. There is an incomplete list of products , and a forum for your questions.

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