First off - I don’t know which category to throw this into, so if moderators want to move this to a more fitting category, this would be appreciated. Anyway, here’s the thing: Apparently, Blender devs plan to remove Collada support from the program somewhere around Blender 4.5 LTS or 5.0 release, due to it being severely outdated and posing safety and compatibility risks (mostly same wording per their own announcement). I’m sure this probably concerns developers and Workshop community, at least to a certain extent. Anyway, see here for the whole thing: Moving Collada I/O to Legacy Status - #23 by Alaska - Announcements - Developer Forum - Continuing on though, I have been seeing somewhere on these forums that Unreal Engine imposes some limits on working with different model formats, which might be part of the reason for player models only accepting Collada .dae format - So my only question is, what will happen to Workshop player model support in the game after that? Are there plans to remake the tutorials and documentation for modders to use other modelling software that might continue to support Collada format? Maybe something else is planned, like some sort of major work to support other model formats for player models, if even technically possible? I don’t imagine it’s going to be a problem for Tower Unite itself to keep Collada (.dae) support in, but modding community might have more of a problem on the side of the tools, so not exactly sure what will happen with custom player models, as only these will be impacted the most. I think this is something that should be discussed internally or within the community, just in case if PixelTail team wasn’t already aware of this.
This is the first and the only bump of the thread to not take up space on top of this forum category. I think anyone will agree with me that this is incredibly relevant and important as a topic for anyone: Developers of the game, Workshop creators and people who use these Workshop models alike which are just regular players. Because of that, I want to bring more attention to this issue. This message isn’t meant to rush anyone and especially not the developers to respond or do anything else in particular - It is however, meant to ensure that this is seen by them at all.
If push comes to shove, you can just download an old version of Blender, they have all of their older versions up for download on their site I am pretty sure!
I’m sure there will be some kind of change though that will fix the issue.
Good idea mentioning it though.
Thanks for the response. I honestly kind of forgot that is still an option, so we do have that at least.