Submission + - Siggraph 2009 COLLADA Contest winners announced (www.colladacontest)
UnanimousCoward writes: "The Siggraph 2009 COLLADA Contest winners have been announced with NaviCAD taking the grand prize.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of NaviCAD :-)
NaviCAD is the only iPhone app that lets users view and navigate around models from the Google 3D Warehouse. With the recent announcement of COLLADA support in the latest Spore patch, we are also collecting Spore COLLADA models from Creators so that they can be viewed in 3D in our app (send zip files of dae+texture files to feedback@navicad.com). Currently, we have to modify them slightly to make them accessible by our app. We will be issuing an update to fully-support Spore-generated COLLADA models.
Developing a complex-model, graphics-intensive app for the iPhone is both fun and challenging due to device and OS limitations. We are in the process of writing an article (hopefully, Ars Technica will accept it!) documenting our journey. Subsequent updates will include serialization of the COLLADA files (for faster model generation on the second access) and possibly a client-server architecture where the serialization happens on the server."
Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of NaviCAD
NaviCAD is the only iPhone app that lets users view and navigate around models from the Google 3D Warehouse. With the recent announcement of COLLADA support in the latest Spore patch, we are also collecting Spore COLLADA models from Creators so that they can be viewed in 3D in our app (send zip files of dae+texture files to feedback@navicad.com). Currently, we have to modify them slightly to make them accessible by our app. We will be issuing an update to fully-support Spore-generated COLLADA models.
Developing a complex-model, graphics-intensive app for the iPhone is both fun and challenging due to device and OS limitations. We are in the process of writing an article (hopefully, Ars Technica will accept it!) documenting our journey. Subsequent updates will include serialization of the COLLADA files (for faster model generation on the second access) and possibly a client-server architecture where the serialization happens on the server."