I have decided to just normalise the drive letter part of file names for the time being and also ensure that names of the format x:/xxxxx are treated as absolute paths. This will cover a lot of cases.
I have raised a bug against collada which hopefully should resolve some others. However there are some pathological cases which I have commented on in the code, these will probably never work properly unless there is a significant rewrite of the daeURI functionality. Hopefully they are rare."
COLLADA plugin. dae->load will not return DAE_OK the second time a model is loaded, so a
second check for DAE_ERR_COLLECTION_ALREADY_EXISTS has been added."
only DAE instance when it's first needed instead of in the constructor.
This fixes the problem with osgdb_dae.dll not being loaded due to
unwanted ordering of global initialization.
This fix and the previous fix of the COLLADA plugin might be unnecessary
with the latest COLLADA DOM, but since many of us will probably still
use the older version of the DOM, I guess it's better this way.
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