hair styles

[harmony Palmira]

hi there , well im working good with 3ds max making hairstyles , but it seem here in sl only i can use blender for meshing ?? or still i can do it with 3ds max ?

[arton Rotaru]

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh/Creating_a_mesh

[Kwakkelde Kwak]

3ds max works just fine for SL.

Some things that need extra attention though:

SL doesn't like 3ds max material or object names with spaces in them.

You need the correct fbx exporter (from the top of my head, 2013.1 or 2013.2 and up will work)

Either 3ds max or the exporter doesn't write unused bone names, so if your hair is rigged you need to add the missing bones to the dae file.

You can find a complete guide here.

[harmony Palmira]

i was working for imvu making hair meshes there im lift of imvu i would try my luck here , but if there is like tut or vid to how skining the hair mesh in sl and how to upload it here thats would be helpful , and im using max 2009 so im wondering which plugin i should use ? fbx 2009 ? 1/3 ??

[arton Rotaru]

I guess we can't tell you more than what is written on the wiki pages we linked to already. Which say

2011.3.1 for 2009.

[Chip Midnight]

That should be ammended to say 2011.3.1 and above. Any version of the exporter after that works also.