Collada 的更多信息可以在其官方网站查询： Official Collada website.

Collada 特性

构建Collada插件

Collada的OSG插件依赖Collada的开源库：Collada DOM library当前版本为2.2。它可以为Collada 1.4和1.5标准构建静态的和动态的库。当前Collada 1.4标准经过了测试。Collada DOM library本身依赖Boost, libxml2, pcre, pcrecpp, minizip, zlib等一大堆东西，需要预编译这些东西。需要提醒的是本文成文前OSG还不能和Collada DOM的2.3.x版本正常结合，但2.2工作良好。

如果设置了COLLADA_DOM_ROOT 环境变量，那么在编译OSG时，会自动的寻找和COLLADA相关的配置，包括头文件和库文件，如果无法自动找到，就手动去选择那些项吧。

Step by step example for Windows and Visual Studio 2005

• 下载Download collada-dom-2.2.zip

• 解压到<yourinstalldir>

• 打开 <yourinstalldir>/dom/projects/vc8-1.4/dom.sln and do > Batch Build... > Select all > Build

• 设置环境变量 COLLADA_DIR to <yourinstalldir>

• 打开CMake > configure > adjust COLLADA_DOM_ROOT if not correct > configure > check other COLLADA_ variables > OK

• 构建OSG和dae plugin插件

• Running with a statically linked DOM > Make sure the libxml2.dll can be found

• Running with a dynamically linked DOM > Make sure to libcollada14dom21xxx.dll can be found

Step by step example for Linux (likely similar strategy will work on other unices

• Download collada-dom-2.2.zip from Sourceforge

• Unzip it into <yourinstalldir>

• cd <yourinstalldir>

• cp Makefile.linux Makefile

• make os=linux project=minizip

• sudo make os=linux project=dom -C dom/

• sudo make install

Option strings for Collada reader

OSG plugins can be given optional string arguments to influence their behaviour. For the Collada reader one can specify the following option string:

Plugin data for the Collada reader

OSG plugins can be given optional data arguments to influence their behaviour or receive feedback. For the Collada reader one can specify the following PluginData fields

Option strings for Collada writer

OSG plugins can be given optional string arguments to influence their behaviour. For the Collada writer one can specify the following options strings:

Plugin data for the Collada writer

OSG plugins can be given optional data arguments to influence their behaviour or receive feedback. For the Collada writer one can specify the following PluginData fields

Example Collada dae models

• Test Model Bank Collection of test models from the Collada project

• Google 3D warehouse Rename the kmz to zip and unzip to find the dae models.

Of course you may also Google for data, but be aware that there are also a lot of invalid Collada files available on the web.

Collada data may be tested for corruption at three levels:

1. Well-formedness; conform to the XML syntax rules. Most of the Collada XML data on the web will be well formed, because this is the easiest to catch by tools/parsers.

2. Validity; conform to the semantic rules specified in the Collada XML schema.

3. Coherency; all element referencing and validation not in the scope of an XML schema. Are all used materials/textures available? Do arrays contain correct data? etc.

To do this you can use the CoherencyTest command-line tool or Java based GUI-tool Collada Refinery

Developer info

A description of the Collada extensions for specific OpenSceneGraph functionality can be found at the OSG Collada extensions page on the Collada wiki.

Tool info

This section should contain information specific to the Collada exporters in various tools and if/how they can export files that the OSG Collada plugin will be able to read. Quirks of the various exporters can be listed here along with workarounds if they exist.

Softimage XSI

The current version of Crosswalk (4.1) includes a Collada 1.4.1 exporter which seems to do a good job of exporting valid Collada files. There are a few quirks:

• You need to check "Export XSI normals" on the ExportCrossWalkOptions - Settings page before exporting, otherwise the models will have no normals.

• The exporter correctly exports Lambert, Phong and Constant materials. Blinn is always exported with a shininess of 0 so it is unusable, use Phong instead.

• There were recent fixes to the OSG Collada plugin to support the way XSI exports animation. Apparently, the animations didn't always contain channels for all X, Y and Z components. OSG SVN as of 2010-03-22 has the fix for this, and animations are read correctly now.

• The hierarchy will be respected:

• Objects will be placed under MatrixTransforms (the object name will be put on the MatrixTransform), so the hierarchy will be MT - Geode - Geometry.

• Objects under other objects will be the same in OSG, so the hierarchy will be MT with 2 children, one Geode - Geometry and the other MT - Geode - Geometry of the child object.

• Nulls become MatrixTransforms too, so an object under a null will become MT - MT - Geode - Geometry.

• You can also create a "Model" node in XSI, these also become MatrixTransforms under which the rest of the model will be.

• For some reason, the name of the material of an object becomes the name of the Geometry in OSG. For example, if I have a sphere called redsphere, with a material called red, this will result in a hierarchy MT("redsphere") - Geode(unnamed) - Geometry("red").

• Animation:

• Animation Sources are exported as separate animations.

• Animation Tracks (as seen in the Animation Mixer) are not exported.

• You can still do some edits to Sources in the mixer, as long as you then freeze the clip by doing Clip - Freeze to New Source or Freeze and Replace before exporting.

• Compounds must also be frozen with Freeze to New Source to work, and if you had transitions in the Compound they will work once frozen to a new Source.

• Using Merge to New Source (with multiple clips selected) is an alternate way to do what a compound would do, but transitions won't have any effect then (even if you also selected the transitions before doing Merge to New Source).

TODO/Wishlist

• Solve differences in drawables, DAE reader should place multiple collation elements into multiple primitivesets in a single geometry where possible (only when same material)

• Solve differences in matrices

• Multitexture support

• Profile_GLSL based on AMD's Collada OpenGL Effects Viewer

• Handling more <extra> to more closely mimic the intended lighting

• Add proper <asset> info

• The OSG Collada plugin doesn't currently read multiple animation cycles from a single dae file. This is under investigation and should be fixed soon.