Alternative to the COLLADA loader

[crobi]

There is a project which reads COLLADA files and transforms them into an xml file with meta-data and a binary file with vertex/mesh data, in a format suitable for webgl. The project looks promising, but is work in progress and can not replace a collada loader at this time.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/collada2json

[crobi]

This project has moved to https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF

The idea is still nice, and the format will very likely be much smaller and faster to load than COLLADA files. However, the format is still a draft and not stable. I'm not aware of anyone using it. Also:

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