Hi everyone!
First, I want to apologize if it took me a while to get back to your questions. I thought I had set up the account to notify me whenever someone posted anything and I guess I was wrong.
Second, I wanted to let you know that I am going to post a new patch in about two weeks to fix the crashing associated with importing models without normals. (Has anyone had any problems with textures causing crashes? I haven’t seen any, but if there were this patch should fix any of those types of problems as well.) I am going to wait two weeks to give people time to read this announcement because I also made an orientation change. I’ve only had one post about preferred orientation, and that has been Blender orientation. Now, Blender prefers Z-up. I don’t, but that’s been the request. So, for now on but the models and the skeletons will be Z-up.
The export is still Y-up (because that is what I use and it takes a lot more to update the collada file), but I will try to make this something that you can select in the future.
Sorry that this has been taking so long, I have been completely buried with paperwork lately.
I will try to get a short video next week about what to expect if you import without normals.
Thank you so much for your support!
Jeff