Installing the collada exporter in Godot and blender.

Ebenezer

Can someone tell me about installing the collada exporter in Godot and blender in a step by step way?

Megalomaniak

magarcan

Do you know if are there any reason for not to support .blend format? Would be nice to avoid all this...

TwistedTwigleg

@magarcan said: Do you know if are there any reason for not to support .blend format? Would be nice to avoid all this...

As far as I know, the biggest problem with the .blend format is that it changes a lot from version to version of Blender. One of the biggest problems is the following:

(copied from the Blender Dev source site) Blend-files can be different when stored on different hardware platforms or Blender releases. There is no effort taken to make blend-files binary the same. Backward and Forward compatibility is maintained during loading a blend file into Blender.

Which makes it very hard to support .blend files directly.

That said, there is the official Godot Blender native exporter add-on, though right now it is experimental and in development. Hopefully with time it can make it much easier to move game files from Blender to Godot.

magarcan

@TwistedTwigleg said: Which makes it very hard to support .blend files directly.

Just wondering as Unity does support it. Would be an easier workflow, instead of export to a non native blender format and have to set it up all the export plugin stuff.

TwistedTwigleg

@magarcan said:

@TwistedTwigleg said: Which makes it very hard to support .blend files directly.

Just wondering as Unity does support it. Would be an easier workflow, instead of export to a non native blender format and have to set it up all the export plugin stuff.

Unity doesn't actually support .blend files directly, but rather internally converts .blend files into .fbx files using Blender and Blender's default .fbx plugin. I do not know the details myself, but it is briefly mentioned in the Unity documentation for importing from Blender.

magarcan

@TwistedTwigleg said:

@magarcan said:

@TwistedTwigleg said: Which makes it very hard to support .blend files directly.

Just wondering as Unity does support it. Would be an easier workflow, instead of export to a non native blender format and have to set it up all the export plugin stuff.

Unity doesn't actually support .blend files directly, but rather internally converts .blend files into .fbx files using Blender and Blender's default .fbx plugin. I do not know the details myself, but it is briefly mentioned in the Unity documentation for importing from Blender.

Would be awesome Godot be able to make the same…

Anyway. Is better collada exporter copatible with Blendr 2.80?

Megalomaniak

If I recall correct one of the potential future plans is to write a custom blender exporter that will directly export to godots own scene and/or mesh format, so if that happens it wouldn't necessarily be a stretch to perhaps support this too.

Ace_Dragon

The custom Blender exporter is already usable in a few cases. https://github.com/godotengine/godot-blender-exporter

There's also a (rather limited) branch for 2.8 you can download, but it shouldn't be used in production yet.