Feeling Software has stopped development on the open-source COLLADA tools (FCollada, ColladaMaya, ColladaMax and ColladaMotionBuilder) and will no longer offer free support for these COLLADA tools.

We will continue to offer commercial COLLADA support and custom development to paying clients, and the open-source projects will soon be transferred to Sourceforge to allow the community to maintain it at its own pace.

COLLADA remains stronger than ever and this announcement proves it. As a technology evolves, it often evolve from cutting-edge to commodity. Feeling Software specializes in software development on cutting edge 3D technologies, so three years ago we happily committed to helping Sony and others make COLLADA the best interchange format possible with nearly universal support across content creation tools. Three years later this vision is a reality: Feeling Software alone has performed dozens of major COLLADA contracts including integrating COLLADA in Adobe Photoshop and the Unreal Engine 3. As COLLADA takes its place as the 3D standard of choice and effectively becomes a commodity, it’s time for us to move on to new cutting-edge technologies, like Feeling Real which will enable anyone to automatically create realistic 3D models from pictures, and our Feeling 3D Engine which brings high-quality interactive 3D on the web 2.0 and beyond.

In addition to our acclaimed consulting services, we continue to actively maintain our own internal version of our COLLADA tools, available to commercial customers with source code under the Premium support program. The Premium tool set has evolved and now feature much faster import, a binary, streamable variant of COLLADA, particles and much more. Game and film studios with a strong investment in COLLADA find that our Premium support program pays off nicely in performance, feature set and peace of mind, since you have direct access to our engineering team when urgent requirements arise. Subscribe now and enjoy the ultimate COLLADA experience.