COLLADA 1.4 Import

What is it about?

This page describes the COLLADA 1.4 import in Cinema 4D. It loads .dae files with geometry, cameras, lights and animation — a common bridge from older exchange pipelines.

Cinema 4D supports the following elements for import:

  • Materials (see "Export" for details)
  • Layer names and layer assignment
  • Hierarchies
  • All types of geometry (polylist, polygons, triangles, tristrips, lines, linestrips (the last two as Splines)), incl. N-Gons, Normals and UV coordinates.
  • Instances
  • Splines
  • Lights
  • Cameras
  • Joints (with links/skinning)
  • Animations (Position, Scale, Rotation)