Building a Rock-Solid Content Pipeline with the COLLADA Conformance Test Suite
Alessandro Ardolino, Rémi Arnaud, Paula Berinstein, Simon Franco, Adrien Herubel, John McCutchan, Nicusor Nedelcu, Benjamin Nitschke, Fabrice Robinet, Christian Ronchi, Gustavo Samour, Rita Turkowski, Robert Walter · Apress eBooks · 2014
If there’s one message emanating from the 3D content creation community these days, it’s “Ouch!” We all know why. There’s too much pain in the 3D content creation pipeline: incompatible formats, obsolescence of older material, platform limitations, and so on. Fortunately, there’s something we can do to ease the pain: create tools that adhere to open standards, such as COLLADA, a royalty-free, open standard schema for exchanging 3D assets.