ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how to build a content creation pipeline using COLLADA and introduces several utility libraries that are being developed for this purpose. One of these is the COLLADA DOM [78], a library that provides a document object model (DOM) and application programming interface (API) for creating COLLADA processing tools. These tools are called conditioners because each one transforms the content for a specifi c reason as a single step in the overall pipeline. A simple pipeline confi guration tool called the refi nery provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables the user to assemble and confi gure content pipelines easily. The chapter ends with a discussion of possible evolutions of COLLADA for content pipeline and build process improvements.
