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j^aws
12-11-2004, 10:10 PM
I haven't seen this posted anywhere but COLLADA v1.1 specs were released last week in the midst of all the CELL announcements...

http://www.collada.org/public_forum/viewtopic.php?t=64

Foster City, California - December 3rd, 2004 - Sony Computer Entertainment America announces the release of COLLADA v1.1.0, now available at the http://collada.org web site. COLLADA is an extensible, open interchange format. 3Dlabs, Alias, Discreet, Emdigo, Novodex, Secret Level, Softimage, and Sony Computer Entertainment are pleased to announce the second release of COLLADA to the interactive 3D industry. New features in the COLLADA 1.1.0 schema include character animation and skinning support requested by game developers and interactive content creators to enhance the existing geometry, lighting, shading language, and asset management capabilities of COLLADA.

Also also of note it seems that 3DLabs has joined the partners,

3Dlabs is working to extend COLLADA to support the interchange of OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) shader programs; in essence, to use COLLADA as the "effect metafile" format for GLSL assets.

To support this development effort, we leverage OpenSceneGraph (OSG) as a multi-platform, open-source, GLSL-capable rendering toolkit.

3Dlabs is developing a COLLADA importer plugin for OSG, which will be released as open-source under an OSI-certified license. That importer plugin will function as the framework on which to develop the "GLSL Profile" for COLLADA.

In the spirit of open-source, 3Dlabs invites and encourages developers to collaborate on the development of the OSG plugin. When the plugin reaches an appropriate level of functionality and maturity, we intend to offer it to the OSG team for inclusion in the core OSG distribution.


http://www.collada.org/public_forum/viewtopic.php?t=59

Though no sign of nVidia yet! :P

julps31
12-12-2004, 02:21 AM
Thats some real good news. It looks like Sonys getting the support they need for Collada. At least we wont have the same middleware problem for the PS3 that we had with the PS2. The PS3's looking better and better. :D

Domination
12-13-2004, 06:29 PM
I wonder why this hasn't hit the front page. It sounds like great news. Oh well... I wonder is there more (as in something extremely competitive) in which we haven't yet seen from this new appraoch Sony seems to be taking.

RichardCypher101
12-13-2004, 08:41 PM
If I could get a better briefing as to what Collada is/does, I could write up a news article on it. Ive refrained from doing as such, as I feel Scott with his more extensive knowledge in the subject could write one up better.

If I can however get more information on this, and a little bit more understanding, I can post the news, especially if it isnt being given the proper attention.

-Rich

Scott R. Mraz
12-13-2004, 08:44 PM
I wonder why this hasn't hit the front page. It sounds like great news. Oh well... I wonder is there more (as in something extremely competitive) in which we haven't yet seen from this new appraoch Sony seems to be taking.

Thats because we posted a news article on this a long time ago, when the information was first released (this new information is simply a revision, hence the x.1):

http://www.psinext.com/itex.php?iid=86

Matt
12-19-2004, 11:12 PM
Also, anything related to this will go here now:

http://www.psinext.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4486