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Welcome to COLLADA.org public forumCOLLADA - An open Digital Asset Exchange Schema for the interactive 3D industry.COLLADA has been a COLLAborative Design Activity for establishing an open standard Digital Asset schema for interactive 3D applications. COLLADA, now at release 1.5, has been a standard of The Khronos Group since its 1.4.0 release. Consortium members continue to promote COLLADA to be the centerpiece of Digital Asset toolchains used by the 3D interactive industry. COLLADA is not only a technology, as technology alone cannot solve the problem of communication among applications in a digital-asset toolchain. COLLADA has succeeded in providing a neutral zone where competitors work together in the design of a common specification. This creates a new paradigm in which the schema (format) is supported directly by the digital-content creation (DCC) vendors. Each writes and supports their own implementation of COLLADA importer and exporter tools. The COLLADA Schema supports all the features that modern 3D interactive applications need, including programmable shader effects and physics simulation. It can also be easily extended by the end users for their own specific purposes. In other words, COLLADA is not designed to be a temporary data transport mechanism, but rather to be the schema for the source data for your digital assets. It is not designed as a delivery mechanism, but to be a content holder for any target platform. COLLADA's choice of language is XML, thus gaining many of the benefits of the eXtensible Markup Language, including native support of international UTF-8 encoding. The COLLADA XML Schema document is publicly acccessible on the Internet for online content validation: Where do I find more information?The Khronos Group web site is your starting point for learning more about the COLLADA specification and schema. collada.org is hosted by the Khronos Group and is the home of COLLADA. This site provides a product and plug-in directory, extensions directory, news, links for other COLLADA resources on the Internet, and updatable wiki pages, along with a forum to discuss COLLADA. How can I post my comments/questions on the public forum?We encourage feedback and participation! To post on this public forum, you will have to register , accepting the Terms Of Service Agreement as well as the Public Forum Rules. A valid e-mail address is required for registering. Registered members can post messages in the Public forums. The Contributions section can be used to post information about any additional library/tool/product taking advantage of COLLADA, or to post source code or test data that will contribute to the community. The Job Board forum is to be used to post any COLLADA related job offer/search or contractual offers. All other offers will be deleted. How do I get my product listed on collada.org?The Products directory is for informing the COLLADA community of all products that have implemented a COLLADA content path. The product directory consists of wiki pages that tool vendor can edit and that can be read by all. Each product page states what is the latest version, when it was released, where to get it, where to report bugs, and who is the provider/maintainer. How can I participate in the design of COLLADA?Participating in the design of COLLADA requires contributor membership in The Khronos Group. Click here to enter COLLADA public forum Site Admin: Webmaster at Khronos dot org |
