INFOSTUKA.ORG Collada Export Plugin for Processing

Collada Export Plugin for Processing

marcus • August 8th, 2007

libCollada allows you to easily export 3D geometry and material data in the COLLADA 1.4.1 format from your processing applications. Although processing’s drawing methods and COLLADA’s scenegraph based, more complex 3D description format, do not match directly – the library attempts to do a reasonable conversion, requiring no extra API to learn.

Releases

version 0.2

now creates materials & effects generated from standard p5 drawing commands
» collada-0.2.zip

version 0.1

first public release with examples and packaged for p5
» collada-0.1.zip

version 0.01 (08/06/07)

a first rather rough version that can export basic geometry data.

Source

You can checkout the latest revision with subversion from the repository with:

svn export http://svn.infostuka.org/rep/libCollada/trunk/

Useage

Use the plugin in the same way as you would with the PDF or PNG exporter.

import processing.opengl.*;
import infostuka.collada.p5.*;

void setup() {
  size(400, 400, OPENGL);
}


void keyPressed() {
  if (key == ' ') {
    record = true;
  }
}


void draw ()
{
    if (record) {
        beginRecord(P5ColladaExport.DAE, "output.dae");
    }

    // ... your drawing operations here ...

    if (record) {
        endRecord();
        record = false;
    }
}

Examples

Point Cloud

License

Permalink

http://www.infostuka.org/opensource/collada-export-plugin-for-processing

3 Responses to Collada Export Plugin for Processing

Matt August 21st, 2007 at 01:20 AM
This is awesome. I've been working with Saito on the obj loader but I've been wanting to get collada importing and exporting working for a while now. I use collada at work so it's becoming more of a need for me to get it integrated in processing. Great work looking forward to testing it. MattD(polymonkey)
Marius Watz September 17th, 2007 at 05:23 PM
Hi Marcus, I just blogged your library over on Code & Form. Looks promising, even though I've not heard much about it before.
Marcus September 17th, 2007 at 07:56 PM
Thanks guys! I hope to add more features to it soon - especially looking forward to exporting whole animations from p5.