About bulletColladaConvter, OpenCollada,ColladaMaya

[yaoyansi]

hi,
I'm sorry but i don't whether it is right to post this topic here.

My questions are:
1. How to use bullet Collada Convter? Is there any demo or test case avaliable?
2.I know Maya contains a collada plugin internally, but what is the relationship between the internal collada plugin and OpenCollada/ColladaMaya?
And I'm confused by OpenCollada and ColladaMaya. What's the difference between OpenCollada and ColladaMaya? Which one is better?
I check out the code of OpenCollada and ColladaMaya, and find out that they have different files and structures.

links:
OpenCollada: http://opencollada.org/support.html
ColladaMaya: https://sourceforge.net/projects/colladamaya

Thanks

[Erwin Coumans]

If you really want to use COLLADA, I recommend using the OpenCollada plugins, they are most up-to-date and supported through http://opencollada.googlecode.com
The Bullet/Demos/ColladaDemo shows how to load a .dae file using BulletColladaConverter, but...

The BulletColladaConverter will be deprecated soon and replaced by BulletWorldImporter and the .bullet binary file format.

Also the Dynamica plugin will support this .bullet format. Please check out Bullet 2.76 alpha release for the first .bullet file format tests.
Thanks,
Erwin

[yaoyansi]

Thanks for your reply, Erwin.

If we use .bullet format instead of .dae, how can we export models from maya/max?

[Erwin Coumans]

The new version of the Maya Dynamica plugin supports .bullet file export. We will try to also add support for this new file format in Blender and other modelers.

Thanks,
Erwin