I got some .ZAE files to work on. Never heard of these before. It seems .ZAE is an archive format for collada files. However, i can't really find any way to open them.

Any suggestions?

Are these zipped DAE files? Perhaps you can simply unzip them and then File > Import > Collada [www.sidefx.com]

well, i'm not really sure. according to google it suppose to be something like that, together with the textures, etc. But how do i unzip it? feels kind of silly to ask.. Windows cannot do anything with it. It looks like a specific application could handle it, i just can't find which application.

Try just changing the extension to .zip and go from there.

my god, that was the solution. I'm both thankful and questioning my lifetime of experience behind the computer.