Importing meshes/textures to Second Life.

[CriticalFiction]

Hello,

I'm a complete and total newbie to second life, however, I'm a student in my third year studying Game Art & Design. I'm experienced with 3ds max and Zbrush, and I'm extremely interested in uploading some models to Second Life to try to make some extra cash for textbooks and whatnot.

My question, how do I go about uploading a mesh into the game, and putting a mesh in the market for sale so that I can generate revenue? I tried looking up some information online, but I can't really seem to find much.

Any help would be appreciated.

[leliel Mirihi]

Meshes are still in beta so you'll have to wait until they're released before you can start selling them. But while you wait you can read the wiki page about them. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh

[CriticalFiction]

I was checking out the marketplace, are those all official second life produced meshes? I thought players could already sell 3d models in the game?

[leliel Mirihi]

Those are sculpties, a limited, and rather brain dead form of displacement maps. The official documentation is rather dated so I'll link to a good third party site. http://blog.machinimatrix.org/

[DanielRavenNest Noe]

Those are user-created content, but not yet meshes.  Originally SL had only primitive shape-based objects (prims), then added sculpted objects, which use the color channels of a texture to define vertex locations.  Now they are working on adding Collada .dae model import.