How to convert an animation from Collada (.dae) to .dba

From Blue Mars Developer Guidebook

Sighted page [view draft]

This is the latest sighted revision, approved on 9 February 2010. The draft has template/image changes awaiting review.

Accuracy	Sighted
Depth	Basic
Readability	Acceptable

Jump to: navigation, search

There are security restrictions on this article

This page is protected and certified by Avatar Reality Inc.
Only Editable by Avatar Reality Staff Members.

Animations in the game must be in the .dba format. Our conversion tools can take an exported Collada (.dae) animation from either Maya or Max and convert it into a .dba format. Once you have exported the animation, run these commands (example animation file is anim.dae):

bmImportCmd.exe anim.dae anim.caf
This will convert the .dae to .caf.

bmConvertAnim.exe -baseModel Female00 anim.caf
This will convert the .caf to a .dba. If this is for an animation on the male avatar, replace “Female00” with “Male00” in the command as so:

bmConvertAnim.exe -baseModel Male00 anim.caf
This will delete the .caf file once the .dba has been created. You can then open that in the Character Editor to see how it will look in game.