A reason to be happy! (if your a cinema 4d user)

Version 11 will include Collada import and export.

so you can finally get animations out of cinema 4d in one piece.

it exports ..

All normal materials with color, brightness, bitmaptexture, speculars and refraction
Material assignments
Layernames and assignments
Hierarchies
Polygon objects
Normals and UVs of polygon objects
Splines (approximated by linear lines)
Lights
Cameras
Joints with weighted skinning
Position-/scale-/rotation-animation (no tangents)

convert using unwrap 3d and your ready to run.

Has this been proven to work properly yet? I'm just a little sceptical considering their past performance with file exports. They couldn't even get the obj export right.

no and fbx export is rubbish too, but we can hope this works. there making a very big deal out of it on there site so i would have thought they have it working. the other exports always gave me the feeling they were just tacked on at the end.