🎯 Overview

DAE Importer/Exporter Revival

Bring seamless COLLADA (.dae) workflows back to modern Blender!

DAE Importer/Exporter Revival is a lightweight, stable, and essential add-on designed to restore full COLLADA (.dae) import and export capabilities to modern Blender releases (Blender 5.0+). Built to bridge file compatibility gaps, it fixes long-standing legacy issues like broken texture paths, chaotic empty node hierarchies, and complex material assignments.

❓ Why Revival?

The default COLLADA support faced limitations and deprecation in recent Blender updates, leaving creators and game developers stranded when interacting with specific 2D/3D pipelines. DAE Importer/Exporter Revival restores this classic tool directly into your File > Import/Export menus, augmented with smart modern workflow enhancements.

✨ Key Features

• Smart Texture & Material Setup: Automatically generates structured material node trees and relinks external images on import, while bundling textures into dedicated output folders on export.

• Double-Sided Shader Support: Native handling for complex front-and-back face materials utilizing Blender's Backfacing geometry logic.

  
  

• Clean Hierarchy Engine: Strip away unnecessary nested empty objects generated by third-party software for a clean, production-ready scene graph.

• Flexible Unit Scaling: Reads standard length units automatically from DAE files or lets you override scaling manually (mm, cm, m, inches, feet).

• Complete Entity Support: Full user control to toggle individual export/import routines for cameras, lights, and armature bone structures.

⚙️ Feature Summary