getting animated models from maya into java

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

hello,
i am looking for a suitable 3d-model-format that supports skeletal animation, and there exist:

  1. an exporter for maya
  2. an importer (mainly a parser) written in java.

(we already have an internal mesh format, so all we need is the file parsing)

can anyone recommend such a file format?

thanks!

#2

There are several loaders in the Xith codebase. Maybe you could borrow some stuff. One Option could be COLLADA. Another one could be Cal3D.

#3

thanks

as for collada, i see there is whoola, but i couldnt find much documentation about the mesh-structure it outputs.

as for Cal3D, is there a java port?

thanks!

#4

Don’t know exactly. I saw the loaders in the Xith3D 2.0 devplan, so maybe ask in that forum. I suspect you could rip the xith-part out and just use the already implemented parser, but I did not look into the code. I think the COLLADA loader and WHOOLA converter was done by croft (profile). Maybe you can ask him regarding the mesh output.

#5

COLLADA looks as probably the best way to import and export models as it supports almost all the features needed, btw JME has a COLLADA loader too.