[Papervision3D] Cinema4D R11 Collada

[Eric-Paul Lecluse]

Has anyone found a more elegant solution for Cinema4D -> Papervision
exports?

I'm back to exporting Cinema 4D to Collada, importing in Blender and
exporting again to Collada, without ever using any other feature of Blender.

Cinema completely obfuscates the object names and substitutes them by random
ID# numbers, but maybe there's a greater purpose for that.

Before this, I was using 3DS exports from Cinema. The problem there was that
the 3DS merges all geometry into one object (or so it seems), so you can't
distinguish between objects anymore for animations etc.

Would love to hear some other workflows.

Cheers,
Eric-Paul. 





On 10/2/08 12:55 , ".am" <am at complexresponse.com> wrote:

> 
> same problem here.
> &-(
> 
> 
> 
> Eric-Paul Lecluse-2 wrote:
>> 
>> Have you got a clue as to why the first material is applied to each and
>> every object? I'm now using Cinema with 3DS exports, but it's too limiting
>> within PV.
>> 
>> See screenshot of what's happening here:
>> http://grabs.epologee.com/7a3b585eb9346e844f5c38f974f0f674.png
>> 
>> EP. 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/2/08 10:16 , ".am" <am at complexresponse.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I think you reply to the wrong message : )
>>> 
>>> the problems I found in your collada are
>>> .1 the material, can't be with those luminance, as pv won't parse it.
>>> uncheck luminance, then check color and it should go ok. I guess you
>>> shoud
>>> go use the pv effects branch for those... although you have to ask help
>>> from
>>> someone else :P
>>> .2 the back face od the "c" was not triangulated.
>>> .3 if you don't want to manipulate the objects in different ways I think
>>> you
>>> could connect them into one inside cinema (select all objects in objects
>>> panel and right click > connect)
>>> 
>>> hope this helps
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> modo302 wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hey dude i tried your file works great, but when i made my own sample
>>>> c4d
>>>> file and export it to collada i used the same as3 files that you have
>>>> just
>>>> replace the dae with this c4D file attach and i get this error:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> INFO: Viewport autoScaleToStage : Papervision has changed the Stage
>>>> scale
>>>> mode. 
>>>> INFO: Papervision3D Public Beta 2.0 - Great White (20.08.08)
>>>>   
>>>> TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null
>>>> object reference.
>>>>         at org.ascollada.fx::DaeEffect/read()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.core::DaeEntity()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.fx::DaeEffect()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.core::DaeDocument/readLibEffects()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.core::DaeDocument/read()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.core::DaeEntity()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.core::DaeDocument()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.io::DaeReader/loadDocument()
>>>>         at org.ascollada.io::DaeReader/completeHandler()
>>>>         at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
>>>>         at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
>>>>         at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
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