Collada Plugin For Maya 2008

[oriondq]

Has anyone been able to sucessfully install the collada plugin for maya 2008

Im running maya on my intel mac
os 10.5.5

ive been trying this for days and cant find any help or solutions anywhere

[joojaa]

maya 2008 allready know's how to export (and import) collada. Just load the fbxmaya plugin in the plugin manager and your set to go. (the extension for collada is dae so dae_fbx does the trick)

So the question is do you really need a extra plug in installed when you already have one. Off course you might have some custom data that you need in which case youd do your OWN exporter.

[oriondq]

oh, i was unaware of this
so i can still export to papervision through this built in plug in?

[joojaa]

Probably. Unfortunately collada is more of a description framework than fileformat, just like in html the same thi ng could be described in many ways. Wasy wich are not compatible.

So at teh end of the day having a collada file is just a step in the direction of having whatever you think you do,