I forgot to add that if anyone wants to contribute to the collada extensions written here: http://openrave.programmingvision.com/wiki/index.php/Format:COLLADA please email me for getting write access. At one point we allowed anyone to sign in and edit the wiki, but spammers found us really quick and we got hacked ;0) rosen, 2011/10/7 Rosen Diankov : > hi guys, > > sorry i'm coming in late for the discussion, i took a look at the 9/27 > meeting notes and had some comments: > > > In terms of collada parsers: > > - collada-dom is a very thin wrapper, which makes it easy to put into > projects, but doesn't do much for you. it can only open the collada > version it was compiled with. > > - OpenCOLLADA ( http://opencollada.org/ ) - from the authors that > developed the kinematics standard in collada 1.5. i've been following > development and it looks really neat, except it has a lot of > dependencies. it can also open multiple collada versions. > > So far we've been choosing collada-dom and have written parsers for > ROS, OpenRAVE, OpenHRP, and EusLisp. Unfortunately the original > authors of collada-dom have given up on it in favor of OpenCOLLADA, so > somehow i got tricked into maintaining it (yes the fun ;0) ). Although > OpenCOLLADA is more supported, If you know what you are doing, it > takes about a two days to write a importing/exporter with collada-dom > and your library, so it isn't that bad. > > We keep a database of planning-ready collada robots here, which we > update regularly: > > https://openrave.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/openrave/data/robots/ > > (unzip the zae files to get the dae files) > > We also maintain a set of robot-specific extensions here: > > http://openrave.programmingvision.com/wiki/index.php/Format:COLLADA > > The extensions do include sensor definitions and how to attach sensors > to robots. > > hope this helps, > rosen, > _______________________________________________ Ros-sig-plan mailing list Ros-sig-plan@code.ros.org https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-sig-plan