DAE and Zeus Free Converter

For those of you that are still creating and may be looking for some options when Blender stops supporting DAE files (this may have already happened) there is a new free converter you may want to check out.

The converter page shown above is here. 

The main site page is here. 

This might also be handy for folks downloading models from the web (now legal so far as LL is concerned) that are not in a format that can be uploaded into Second Life.   

There are some caveats here of course.  In the best of all possible worlds this could be a gift application solely made to help creators. In the not so bright scenario there may be a way to keep your mesh files (certainly seems so anyway).  But perhaps worth looking at and testing.   I have a few things I mad IN Sansar (not imported from SL) that are FBX files (a very nice format by the way with some pluses) that I could convert here.  

I had to stop and chuckle here as I am sometimes VERY DENSE (and not in the muscle mass area).  When I was going through old files in March and uploading to Kitely I did find some FBX files of interest.  BUT  "I" am still using old Blender and don't plan to change especially since I am doing o little meshing these days AND  I can easily import the fbx file and convert to dae within Blender (duh). 

We don't really know -- or I haven't read anyway how long dae will remain in the uploader.  You could always use the pre- PBR Firestorm viewer of course.  

Lots up in the air, but if this is of importance to you, bookmark that site for later.

And NOW since I made this post I won't have to worry about loosing a bookmark (love my blog-diary).