From our experience that was true for 2.49 but in the most current beta the COLLADA export works quite well. They leverage OpenCOLLADA which is being actively developed so it is improving all the time.
.blend support would indeed be awesome. Our hope vision is to integrate right into Blender and other major packages so you would just hit an 'Export to OurBricks' button. We have been dipping our toes.
For now the COLLADA export in the latest Blender demo is actually pretty solid and one the most well test paths into OurBricks.
Not a bad idea actually. I have found that collada import into blender seems to leave something to be desired. Have filed a bug on it.
The COLLADA export really is quite good so that path is reasonable for now I think.
We have actually just launched experimental FBX, 3DS and DXF support so there are now more ways into the system.
@Tartos: Thank you for the heads up. I will have a look at it.
@clrg: You're right. I have edited the link above. Thx.
From our experience that was true for 2.49 but in the most current beta the COLLADA export works quite well. They leverage OpenCOLLADA which is being actively developed so it is improving all the time.
As an additional fyi. Blender's COLLADA roadmap is map is here http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/Architecture/COLLADA
.blend support would indeed be awesome. Our hope vision is to integrate right into Blender and other major packages so you would just hit an 'Export to OurBricks' button. We have been dipping our toes.
For now the COLLADA export in the latest Blender demo is actually pretty solid and one the most well test paths into OurBricks.