Blender and Collada Woes

So this week I got an opportunity to check out Blender for the first time at work. It’s going to be exciting getting some 3D models made, and using them in flash, etc..

Anyway, One of the other new things we got recently is papervision3D. Papervision is a set of classes for actionscript3/flash that allows very smooth, graceful 3d animation.. Anyway, long story short, I wanted to start making some 3d stuff to play around with in flash basically; This is where Blender comes in.

Papervision3D supports the Collada file format (.dae) So I needed to get the Collada exporter working in Blender first. However, after much research, and reading up on support forums, it seems Python 2.5 and the Collada 1.4 Exporter script do not play nice together at all.

Reference here -> http://colladablender.illusoft.com/phorum/read.php?2,47,114

Anyway, to solve the problem of Collada1.4 not working with Blender, go ahead and downgrade python to 2.4, and there you go! Problem solved