robertltux McCallen

okay excluding Blender which i can't seem to FIND the correct incantation to make work (2.4* versions don't work with python 2.6 and the menu is absent from 2.5 which does work with python 2.6) what other tools are running about

a couple things i would like to find out 1 is there a good cheap tool to downsample a mesh to something sane (ive crashed the viewer trying to parse a 65 meg mesh)?? 2 is it possible to have the textures picked up automatically from a textured mesh?? and for the bonus round question is anybody working on doing mesh versions of the "legacy" avatars??

okay if anybody wants to do a nice set of mesh files i will host them for you (subdomain with FTP access) send a note card with the title BAD WOLF MESH %avatarname% listing a login ,password and what meshes you have done/will be doing (will be used to create the subdomain DO NOT USE YOUR SECONDLIFE PASSWORD)

could Some Linden please move the example files from the current internal only location to somewhere folks can download from?? also which sim has the most samples to play with??

does somebody that was in on the closed beta want to help me a bit with understanding a few things 1 if i have an export copy of a shape how (beginning with which cheap program) can i modify the mesh to say fix the waist being wasp shaped 2 how would you go about making a "pancake" style tutu?? Of course if one of y'all would like to help me in doing a line of avatars that would be nifty

if y'all don't mind could somebody currently with mesh server access please contact me in world?? ive got an idea that i want to give to somebody with mesh skills.

How long will it be before LL will tell us why their version of Collada will not be compatible with Blender's version of Collada. I am not saying it will, of course. I can't imagine why they would want to do that. What tools will be available to SL creators (of at least Blender quality -- remember, that is a freebie developed by a bunch of unpaid persons) to create the new avatars. Once again, I am not saying they would not include those tools. I am sure they would never not do that. How long will LL keep saying that they will not cut support for prims & textures before they announce that no more support will be available for them? I am not saying they would do that, of course. since collada is a STANDARD they will not be able to claim anything (they may have limits on the size/resolution of the mesh but the format is the format) tools exist already since Poser and DazStudio both have .dae export (and its a fairly common format) collada is a MESH format it still needs textures (and dropping prims would be insane)

well lets see Linden Labs would have to recreate a chunk of Blender or a similar ap with in world controls to allow in world mesh editing. For various reasons this will not happen. Oh btw you do realize that major sections of the internet the servers running the internet and in fact the core networking protocols are all products of The Elder Open Source Community?? getting back on the topic mesh /sculpties and Prims are all designed for different things If i wanted to grip a 2X4 in my mouth and take a swing at somebody this would be a prim (as would anything that needs simple shapes (like the walls of a building) If i wanted a baseball bat this would be a sculpty If i wanted some sort of ornate wizards staff this would be a mesh object (and im sure that werehouse is planning on converting theiravatar line to mesh as soon as it releases)

what i can see this doing is finally solving a big problem in SecondLife If you want an avatar that is not of more or less average size the current mesh gets "funny" (example in a small female avatar how do you not have that oversized chest area and that wasp waist??) The avatar market will jump when Victoria and her friends come into play

If you are hooked into the Daz Studio/Poser line it has Collada export. My big question is if you have a fully rigged model will the skeleton data also be transfered?? this point alone will cause riots of joy (red sox winning the world series level) in the non biped avatar community.