Hi all. Now I'm developing a format using this library (COLLADA->my_format) and I have a question about the model nodes. Suppose I import the model which has only the skeleton from COLLADA. This is the part of COLLADA file:

<node id="node-Bip01" name="Bip01">
<matrix>-1.11659e-6 -0.9999999 0 0 0.9999999 -1.11659e-6 0 3.92653e-9 0 0 0.9999999 65.17503 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Pelvis" name="Bip01_Pelvis">
<matrix>8.96323e-7 0.9999999 -1.266e-6 0 -8.96321e-7 1.266e-6 0.9999999 4.44089e-16 0.9999999 -8.96321e-7 8.96323e-7 0 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Spine" name="Bip01_Spine">
<matrix>0.9955244 -0.09450607 -1.30992e-6 6.857667 0.09450607 0.9955244 3.7075e-6 -0.007909025 9.53674e-7 -3.8147e-6 1 2.38569e-13 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Spine1" name="Bip01_Spine1">
<matrix>0.9074489 0.4201623 1.49847e-6 9.961844 -0.4201623 0.9074489 -1.68342e-7 -0.006903864 -1.43051e-6 -4.76837e-7 1 1.4421e-12 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Spine2" name="Bip01_Spine2">
<matrix>0.9576223 -0.2880275 -7.13389e-7 9.563214 0.2880275 0.9576223 1.92079e-7 -0.008176597 6.27833e-7 -3.89414e-7 1 7.6294e-6 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Neck" name="Bip01_Neck">
<matrix>0.9718181 -0.2357309 -9.26798e-7 11.60393 0.2357309 0.9718181 -2.2481e-7 -1.200218 9.53674e-7 -3.56239e-14 1 -9.16411e-13 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Head" name="Bip01_Head">
<matrix>0.9929031 -0.1189281 -4.73453e-7 7.180753 0.1189281 0.9929031 -5.67093e-8 -3.02681e-6 4.76837e-7 -6.50238e-14 1 2.62219e-12 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Ponytail1" name="Bip01_Ponytail1">
<matrix>-0.1493662 0.9887819 2.87308e-6 8.839306 -0.9887819 -0.1493662 -3.32749e-6 -5.572218 -2.86102e-6 -3.33786e-6 1 -1.52588e-5 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Ponytail11" name="Bip01_Ponytail11">
<matrix>0.9105805 0.4133315 1.00309e-6 14.05035 -0.4133315 0.9105805 -4.55323e-7 -0.004968989 -1.10159e-6 -1.76652e-13 0.9999999 -6.71871e-12 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Ponytail12" name="Bip01_Ponytail12">
<matrix>0.9995185 -0.03102709 -9.71259e-15 6.84024 0.03102709 0.9995185 -1.37909e-13 -0.004851814 7.28032e-14 2.05053e-13 0.9999999 7.6294e-6 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Ponytail13" name="Bip01_Ponytail13">
<matrix>0.9863119 -0.1145049 -0.118651 6.101934 0.1136967 0.9934228 -0.01358097 -0.00462669 0.1194257 -9.51586e-5 0.9928433 -7.62939e-6 0 0 0 1</matrix>
<node id="node-Bip01_Ponytail14" name="Bip01_Ponytail14">
<matrix>0.9725637 -0.1944915 0.1276439 5.871038 0.1928515 0.9809043 0.02520426 -0.0104077 -0.1301085 1.03583e-4 0.9914999 1.51491e-5 0 0 0 1</matrix>



This is only the nodes of the hierarchy (no geometry). Assimp loads the correct hierarchy. The library also loads the geometric representation of each bone (mesh). How to solve this problem(maybe using post process steps...)?

Did you export your bone meshes in your collada file? Usually you only need to export the bone hierarchy.
If I remember well, in 3ds max, you have to hide the bones meshes before exporting the model.
As you're working on a model converter you can just ignore the bone meshes and only convert the bone hierarchy into your custom file format.
I'm don't think there is a way to tell assimp to ignore some part of the geometry but I didn't use assimp for more then a year so I may be wrong.

Well, as I understood this is a feature of the COLLADA exporter (and Assimp importer). Part of the correct COLLADA file

<node id="node-Bip01_L_Toe0" name="Bip01_L_Toe0" sid="joint22" type="JOINT">
<matrix>-4.37114e-8 -0.9999999 -1.34092e-14 6.761646 0.9999999 -4.37114e-8 4.91523e-7 10.59154 -4.91523e-7 5.72948e-15 0.9999999 -4.30573e-6 0 0 0 1</matrix>
</node>

XML node "node" must have an attribute (type="JOINT") to be a bone.

As you're working on a model converter you can just ignore the bone meshes and only convert the bone hierarchy into your custom file format.[/quote] Perhaps this is true. But there are many subtle points.