New to blender and that FILE => EXPORT => COLLADA (.dae) button intrigues me.
However – maybe I’m blind – but I can’t seem to find the script for this exporter in the \scripts\addons folder.
If anyone can hook me up with this script’s file name and folder location you’d make my day.
:eyebrowlift2:
Running grep only yields some menu entries in ‘startup/bl_ui/space_info.py’, but a quick Google found these:
http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2011/01/23/modified-collada-exporter-for-blender-2-49b/
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.4/Py/Scripts/Export/Collada_1.3.1
http://colladablender.illusoft.com/cms/
But they all appear to be for 2.4x
er, here’s some 2.5 stuff, might be compiled as a plugin…
http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14424&sid=d256583a6271b9a9b4689344d0015ad1
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Architecture/COLLADA
What are you actually wanting to know?
What are you actually wanting to know?
I’m trying to access a mesh’s textures (e.g., file names) and the UV coordinates for those textures. My attempts at finding this data via blender’s console weren’t too successful. Although I’m guessing its somewhere down bpy.data.meshes[0].
Reason I was particularly interested in Blender’s COLLADA exporter script was because it appears to be accessing that specific data and I was gonna take a peek at the script to see how it was doing it. But… I guess its hard-coded into blender. 
There are other export ‘scripts’, look in preferences addons to see some which will be scripts.
Here’s an introduction to many aspects of the Blender API usage: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Py/Scripts/Cookbook/Code_snippets
Both materials and textures are separate entities which are linked together with objects.
Thanks. That link you provided to some blender API texture code was just what I needed. It led me right to the answer I was seeking. 
e.g.
filename = bpy.data.meshes[?].materials[?].active_texture.image
uvcoords = bpy.data.meshes[?].uv_textures[?].data[?].uv_raw