COLLADA 1.4 Export

What is it about?

This page covers the COLLADA 1.4 export in Cinema 4D. It writes the open .dae exchange format — geometry, cameras, lights and animation — for tools and engines that rely on COLLADA.

Cinema 4D supports the following elements for Export:

  • Materials with the following channels: Color (color, brightness, texture), Luminance (color, brightness, texture), Specular in the Reflectance channel (width, height, color, brightness, texture), reflection in the Reflectance channel (color, brightness, texture), Transparency (color, brightness, texture).
  • Layer name and assignment
  • Hierarchies
  • Geometry, incl. N-Gons, Normals and UV coordinates
  • Splines as approximate linear Splines.
  • Light sources (Omni, Spot and Area light as well as Infinite)
  • Cameras
  • Joints with links/skinning under the following conditions:
    - A Skin object can only affect a single Polygon object
    - A Polygon object can only have a single Weight tag
    - If a Polygon object is affected by several Deformers the Skin object must be placed last in the hierarchy.
  • Animations (Position, Scale, Rotation)