Cinema 4D and second life together?

[FinchFubar]

I have photoshop along with cinema 4d and i have been wanting to know if there is a way to make up an object on C4D and bring it over to second life. If there is a way it would drop the time down on making items like homes and so on down deeply. I have looked on youtube and havent found a single thing so this is where the lovely SL forums come in. if anyone would know anything about this then plz plz plz help me out cause i would love to start building homes,lighting and ect. 

[Madeliefste Oh]

I'm working with C4D as well. You can make what you want, then export the file as a collada file and upload it to SL.

You might want to check the Mesh Forum for more info. There is a lot to discover.

[Casper Priestman]

Depending on the route you'd like to take, there are two approaches. Both R12 and R11.5 export compatible .DAE mesh files for upload to Secondlife, so all you'd need do is make your object, unwrap the UVMAP and produce some lower poly ones to account for LOD. Sculpties are also possible using C4D. as long as some simple guidelines are followed as far as base mesh is concerned ie: 32x32 verts, flatten the UVmap, and use a specific height map shader to produce the sculpt map itself. In all honesty...I initially set out on that route years ago and found it was much easier just going with Blender and Domino Marama's scripts for sculpt map generation. However I still did my baking and some texturing in C4D. Now that mesh is here, I'm concentrating mostly on producing efficient low poly mesh objects with R12. Because of the PE (prim equivelence) of a mesh, the smart thing would be to use mesh when simple/tortured SL prims or sculpties won't do. I'd start reading up on mesh in the mesh forum or wiki just to familiarize yourself with the caveats of what good practice and accepted procedure are. Good luck, and don't be afraid to ask!

[Irischka Hotshot]

hello.. i made a dress with clothilde with cnurbs. And exported it as collada in .dae but when i try to upload it says that the upload failed because my model do not contain mesh.. what i do wrong? i am very new to meshes and sculpting so dont hit me for that :matte-motes-shocked:

[blakopal Galicia]

Cinema 4D r13 appears to have some great improvements for creating for SL. i haven't had a chance to check it all out yet, but it looks like there is a lot that will help with rigging clothes.