Box Shot 3D 3.4 released – Now With Collada Import Feature
Applications for Life Company released Box Shot 3D 3.4, an update to their powerful utility that digitally “shoots” virtual 3D objects. Box Shot 3D allows you to render software boxes, book covers, magazines, CD, DVD and Blu-Ray boxes, cans, bottles, mugs, bags and much more. No 3D-knowledge is required at all and the results look very professional because of raytracing rendering technology. The new release brings COLLADA format import support.
Open Model Implementation for XNA to load COLLADA files
Open Source Project for Animated COLLADA models in XNA 4 aims to be an alternative to the built-in XNA Model class that is able to load animated 3D models from XML based COLLADA files.
Official March 2011 COLLADA Newsletter now online
The COLLADA Work Group has posted the official COLLADA newsletter for March 2011 online. In this issue:
- COLLADA Conformance Testing
- OurBricks + COLLADA Makes Sharing 3D Content a Snap!
- COLLADA Opens Up a World of Possibilities in Second Life’s New Mesh Project
2011 GDC Presentation slides from Khronos DevU now online
Khronos has posted slide presentations from GDC 2011 online. Included in the DevU presentations are COLLADA, Mobile, OpenCL, OpenVG and WebGL.
K-3D 3D modeling and animation software offers COLLADA support
K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and powerful package. K-3D excels at polygonal modeling, and includes basic tools for NURBS, patches, curves and animation.
Mirye Software Ships Shade 3D Modeling and Rendering Suite with COLLADA import and export
Mirye Software announces Shade 12, the powerful modeling, animation and rendering platform for Windows and Mac OS X . Shade 12 features a powerful, enhanced renderer that can make use of multiple cores and network rendering using ShadeGrid nodes. New features include new preview options including GLSL Phong rendering (with OpenGL 2 support), fast preview rendering and preview stereoscopic 3D, COLLADA Import and Export Options.
WebGL Quick Reference Card now available
Khronos has announced a quick reference card for WebGL 1.0 release spec. This adds to the collection of Reference Cards already available for other Khronos APIs: OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenVG, OpenMAX, OpenSL ES, COLLADA and OpenWF
Khronos Group Releases Free COLLADA Conformance Test Suite
The Khronos™ Group today announced that it is making the COLLADA™ 1.4 Conformance Test Suite available free of charge to all developers. COLLADA is an open, XML-based industry standard that enables assets to be freely interchanged between 3D authoring applications which can then be mixed and matched in powerful combinations. The COLLADA test suite is a comprehensive set of over 500 detailed tests and a scripted framework that rigorously exercises applications that import and export COLLADA assets to ensure that they can reliably participate in a COLLADA-based toolchain.
Khronos Releases WebGL 1.0 Specification to Bring Accelerated 3D Graphics to the Web without Plugins
The Khronos™ Group today released the final WebGL™ 1.0 specification to enable hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in HTML5 Web browsers without the need for plug-ins. WebGL defines a JavaScript binding to OpenGL® ES 2.0 to allow rich 3D graphics within a browser on any platform supporting the industry-standard OpenGL or OpenGL ES graphics APIs. WebGL has the support of major silicon and browser vendors including Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera with multiple browsers already shipping with WebGL implementations including the beta releases for Mozilla Firefox 4.0, all channels of Google Chrome 9.0, an Opera preview build, and Apple Mac OS Safari nightly builds.
See Khronos and COLLADA at GDC
Please visit Khronos at booth #1444 at the Game Developer Conference (GDC), March 2-4, 2011 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to learn more about COLLADA. Khronos is also running a series of developer university sessions on Thursday, March 3rd, in Room 301 in the South Hall:
- WebGL at 9AM
- OpenGL at 10:30AM
- Demos at 12 noon
- COLLADA at 1:30PM
- OpenCL at 3PM
- Beer and demos at 4:30PM and finally Mobile APIs at 4:50PM. More details about Khronos activities at GDC can be found on our GDC Event page.