About half a year ago, our team at work that develops the engine decided to try and switch from the proprietary Maya export plugin (it exported geometry, animation and materials) to COLLADA. The old export pipeline was somewhat obscure, lacked some useful optimizations, and (what’s most important) lacked any convenient way to setup materials. That was not a problem for platforms with more or less fixed functionality, but with next-generation consoles (or should I say current-generation alre...
