This book is an advanced 3D asset description that was created through the collaboration of many partner companies and was adopted as an official industry standard by the Khronos Group in January 2006. It provides readers with a good review of current asset pipeline technology.
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COLLADA is an advanced 3D asset description. Arnaud and Barnes, both affiliated with Sony Computer Entertainment, offer guidance on using the COLLADA 1.4 specification in applications, and provide insight into the design of COLLADA so that readers can understand how design decisions were made and how this standard may evolve. The book will be useful to content developers interested in exchanging data between several tools, to application developers planning to use COLLADA, and to tool providers who want to add COLLADA compatibility. Appendices provide plug-in code. A section of color screenshots and examples is included. Author information is not given. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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