CS4 Importing Collada Models Broken?

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone been able to successfully import a collada Model containing textures into Photoshop CS4? I've been trying to open collada models from google's 3D warehouse, and when I open them, I don't see anything. It's clear that Photoshop creates a 3D layer, but you don't see anything by default.

When I play around with the imported layer, it's clear that some of the 3D information is there. If I set the render mode to box, wireframe, or any of the settings that don't deal with textures, I can actually see something a rudimentary version of the model.

I actually tested importing a collada model in CS3 Extended at work, and it imported fine, showing the textures and everything. When using CS4, I get the problem described above.

I've actually seen this issue both on Mac and PC versions of CS4. Does anyone know if this is, in fact a bug, and if so, is there a workaround?

Thanks!

-Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Sorry for the late reply on this. You are indeed likely seeing a known limitation importing Collada files with CS4. The workaround is to go to the Materials section of the 3D panel and check the Opacity settings; move them from 0% to see the model.

regards,
steve

On Mar 13, 10:31 pm, wrote:

Hi Andrew,

Sorry for the late reply on this. You are indeed likely seeing a known limitation importing Collada files with CS4. The workaround is to go to the Materials section of the 3D panel and check the Opacity settings; move them from 0% to see the model.

regards,
steve

I'm having the same problem and you're workaround did not work. I've tried setting the opacity of each and everyone material to 100%, 0% and so on and nothing works...

I'm using mac os 10.5, photoshop cs4 extended

Hi, what I've done is importing the collada file to C4D set all the materials to 0% transparency and exporting back the file to collada, It works.