blender 2.58a is released

[hibit Spad]

I see that blender 2.58a is out.

I think we must be really getting close to the 2.6 goal since the Blender foundation has been releasing a and b version lately.  

Unfortunately, the dae exporter fix is not listed in the changes.  :(   

 

Happy creations to all.  :)

 

 

[Nix Manx]

Good to hear, quick question the exporter bug, thats just for rigged avatar meshes? Doesnt affect other types of mesh like buildings?

[Dain Shan]

I never had a problem with the exporter and upload for static Meshes.

If i remember correctly the problem only exists for rigged Meshes

[Gaia Clary]

The Whole Collada exporter and importer seems to be under heavy development and there is still no finished version available. Parts of the exporter work however, especially static meshes could be exported since a long time, but with rigged meshes there have always been problems...

Regarding static meshes, as far as i have seen, Blender can only export the entire scene, so i am not sure how i should create the 4 levels of detail meshes. I can not upload them all in one file, so do i have to place my 4 LOD meshes in 4 different scenes and export them one by one ?

So up till today I always created my meshes with Blender 2.5 but use 2.49b for export to Collada.

[Mikki Miles]

i build the lod meshes and the physics on different layers and in the end delete everything except the one I want to export, then reload the scene and start the procedure for the next lod. Not very handy...

[Dain Shan]

Oh

I never thought about that ..

 

Bu yes i always create a single file for each LOD and one Physics shape

[Mikki Miles]

I'm just waiting for the option "export selected only"

[Ashasekayi Ra]

Thanks for the heads-up.

[Chodai Yoshikawa]

Hi everyone,

The current head of the 2.58.1 Blender SVN has some welcome changes which may not have made it into 2.58a

* Tapple's fix for the Collada armature exporting (bind shape matrix) is now included, however his mod for changing the bone names is commented out as this is a SL uploader issue, not Blender so sadly this bug remains ::  https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/CTS-660

* Export Selected for Collada is turned on and seems to work so far.

If you look for builds later than r38079 WITH Collada on http://www.graphicall.org/  you will get this.

 

[Mikki Miles]

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Chodai Yoshikawa wrote:

If you look for builds later than r38079 WITH Collada on

http://www.graphicall.org/

  you will get this.

 

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for OSX it's without collada...

 

 

[Ashasekayi Ra]

Thanks Chodai

[Chodai Yoshikawa]

Hi Mikki,

there are a few.... this once claims it was buiilt with Collada enabled,

http://www.graphicall.org/299

Cho

[Mikki Miles]

thanks, I will check that :-)

[Mikki Miles]

yeah, it has the "export only selected" checkbox !