This book is an advanced 3D asset description that was created through the collaboration of many partner companies and was adopted as an official industry standard by the Khronos Group in January 2006. It provides readers with a good review of current asset pipeline technology.

COLLADA is a COLLAborative Design Activity for establishing an open standard Digital Asset schema for interactive 3D applications. This book explains in detail how to use the COLLADA technology in a project utilizing 3D assets, and ultimately how to create an effective content creation pipeline for the most complex development. Errata are posted at http: //collada.org/mediawiki/index.php/COLLADA_book

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