COLLADA Tech Talk GDC 2005

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COLLADA Tech TalkGDC 2005

• Marcus Barnes
• COLLADA Project Lead

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Presentation Overview

• Introduction
• Ease of Use
• Emdigo COLLADA API Preview
• New Platforms
• Emdigo Mobile Device UI
• SCEA/SCEE COLLADA PSP Tool Chain
• Future Glimpses
• AGEIA and Softimage - Physics
• NVIDIA FX Composer 2.0
• QA please hold your questions until the end.

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Introduction

• COLLADA is an open source database schema for
  data interchange between tools in the content
  pipeline.
• COLLADA 1.2 released.
• Specification and XML Schema.
• Import/Export plug-ins for XSI, 3DS Max, Maya.
• Example data files and source code.
• Collaboratively designed by Sony and many
  companies Game developers, DCC vendors,
  middleware vendors, hardware vendors.
• http//collada.org - collada_at_collada.org

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COLLADA Tools!

• COLLADA Tools simplify the use of COLLADA in your
  TOOL Chain
• COLLADA import/export Plug-ins
• Maya, 3DSMax, XSI, and others
• COLLADA API
• Simplifies parsing and writing COLLADA XML.
• COLLADA PC Viewer/Converter
• Quick data verification and/or conversion to
  optimized binaries.
• COLLADA Native Viewers
• COLLADA files can be viewed untouched on dev
  tools.

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2005 Road Map

• COLLADA 1.2.3
• April 15th release.
• Conformance test suite.
• Tool requirements specification.
• COLLADA 1.2.4
• COLLADA API - May 2005 release.
• COLLADA 1.3.0
• Shader Effects schema.
• CgFX, Cg, GLSL, HLSL and FX.
• Summer 2005 release.

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QA

• Questions and comments?