[Colladamaya-updates] Short COLLADA 1.4 Update

[Guillaume L. <gui...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

There is no weekly development build last week, as there was no
movement in the ColladaMaya plug-in. Instead, all the COLLADA partners
got together for the COLLADA 1.4 Face-to-face meeting, nicely hosted
by Nokia in Dallas, TX. This discussion meeting saw many interesting
changes and quite a few unexpected modifications to the COLLADA
specifications.

In a couple of days, when all the dust has settled, I'll continue
working on the general COLLADA 1.4 changes and integrating the code
changes provided by our users. Some modifications will also be done,
to what I have already done for COLLADA 1.4.

ColladaMaya will strive to be backward compatible with COLLADA 1.3.1
documents, but here's my warning: if you intend to upgrade to COLLADA
1.4, you will need to modify your current importer. Hopefully, these
modifications should be minor.

If you have specific questions about what will be in COLLADA 1.4 or
the status of a feature you are looking forward to, feel free to
contact me!

Sincerely,
Guillaume Laforte
Feeling Software Inc.