MMOpwn
03-12-2008, 12:34
In Second Life, at least until the introduction of scuplties, there wasn't really a coherent way to create objects in a 3D modeling programme outside of Second Life and import it. Enterprising users have put together specific ways for their application to work together, such as Kisa Naumova's building importer (http://www.secondlifeinsider.com/2007/04/02/architects-building-in-sl/).
Thanks to a tip about AC3D (http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/03/import-and-model-into-second-life-ac3d.html) from the people at Digital Urban (http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/) I can report that there is now a cross-platform modeling programme that is both affordable and comes with various plug-ins allowing it to export items from inivis.com's AC3D (http://www.inivis.com/) to Second Life. This includes making sculpties, making boxes, and the inevitable high-prim "make anything with triangles." I wish I could report on just how easy it is to use, but there is a recognised bug in the mac version with Leopard. Whilst AC3D will start for me as soon as I try to do anything it crashes, so I'm currently not able to do it. You can download AC3D (http://www.inivis.com/downloads.html) and let us know what you think!
Source (http://www.inivis.com/secondlife.html)
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Thanks to a tip about AC3D (http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/03/import-and-model-into-second-life-ac3d.html) from the people at Digital Urban (http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/) I can report that there is now a cross-platform modeling programme that is both affordable and comes with various plug-ins allowing it to export items from inivis.com's AC3D (http://www.inivis.com/) to Second Life. This includes making sculpties, making boxes, and the inevitable high-prim "make anything with triangles." I wish I could report on just how easy it is to use, but there is a recognised bug in the mac version with Leopard. Whilst AC3D will start for me as soon as I try to do anything it crashes, so I'm currently not able to do it. You can download AC3D (http://www.inivis.com/downloads.html) and let us know what you think!
Source (http://www.inivis.com/secondlife.html)
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