Wanna check out some little animated mesh birds?

[WADE1 Jya]

These birds aren't available at my shop yet... but I thought why not let people see a sneak preview of my work today!

Visit my nondescript sky platform today to see these new animated mesh birds... coming soon to SL.

All new AI system allows them many natural life-like behaviors!

You will need a mesh-compliant viewer to see them!

If you are unsure whether you can see mesh properly yet -- this is a great way to find out.

Pro tip: If you only see flittering paper-thin triangles.... you're doing it wrong.... :matte-motes-bashful:

I'm very happy with the way they look so invite all to check out new creations!

 

 

***My avie will be inworld there, so feel free to leave feedback or anything :smileyvery-happy: I'll be AFK (off to walk along the beach with my partner, relaxing after marathon coding sessions) but I'll respond to any questions or whatever when I get back!

Cheers!

[Jesica Dragovar]

ok those look cool, yeah I saw the triangles until I zoomed in, but my graphics card isn't the best so I leave it on low settings

 

stuff like this is why I'm excited to see mesh and see all the stuff people will do with it

[Anita61 Anatine]

Though I can't see mesh objects (yet) I think this is a better way to use it then hair or clothes for which I have to edit my avatar shape. Do you have any isight as to what these bird do on primcount?

Keep up the good work!

[WADE1 Jya]

thanks for visiting! some people see them great... others not so much...

@Anita: primcount is nice! each bird is 3PE, which is equal to 3 prims :matte-motes-smitten:

[Chronometria]

Visited today, the bird looks good, reminds me of claymation as the animation doesnt look like unrelated pictures but like invisible fingers are shaping the bird. A little alarmed at how close you need to be to see mesh birds, as they turn into triangles from only a short distance. Even if this saves server resources, its still too short a distance and the triangles look bad, would rather not see them at all.

[Rachel Seelowe]

Hi WADE,

Thanks for the invite to see your new mesh creation.

The little bird is so beautiful with sweet animations as well.

Your work is amazing!

 

[Tex Nasworthy]

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Pep wrote:

What do they look like to the majority of SL residents who are sensible enough to use viable viewers?

 

Pep (has heard they appear as floating turds.)

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Your area of expertise, no doubt.

[Kylie Jaxxon]

Hi Tex...long time, no see.  Hope all is going well

 

[Tex Nasworthy]

Howdy Kylie,

Just recently came out of hiding. Things are just fine here.

 

[Void Singer]

Cool VL see's mesh and is quite viable for most users who prefer not to use vaniLLa V3 for whatever reasons.

[Pamela Galli]

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Void Singer wrote:

Cool VL see's mesh and is quite viable for most users who prefer not to use vaniLLa V3 for whatever reasons.

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Yes, and I noticed in their forum that somone wants to make a Mac version -- if they do, I will be there! Supposedly WAY faster than v3.

[Void Singer]

you can expect to find it on Hyang Zhao's site sometime after it becomes the official version for Cool instead of experimental.

[Pamela Galli]

Thanks -- I am going to contact the person in the forum who said he/she wanted to make it. 

[Chelsea Malibu]

I'll check it out when I get home tonight and thanks for the invite.

[WADE1 Jya]

Thanks for lots of feedback people....the birds are now done today, except for adding their birdsong (they will sing whenever you see beak open). Sound editing was complete six months ago, so its just a matter of loading these samples into SL, and this bird's ready for release.

@ Chronometria, that transition to triangles you were seeing is the lowest LOD (level of detail) setting. It is directly linked to draw distance. If you increase your draw distance (mine is 512m), it hopefully becomes far less noticable for you (triangles only appear for breif second as mesh first comes into view from quite far away, it would be only a few pixels on your screen), similar to the effect when a sculpty first rezzes at a distance.

I'm happy to see there's some solid interest in these, although I wonder why some people who have viewer 3 can't see them still at all. Would they just be on older computers? One guy came through, he had Viewer 3 and apparently had a good machine, with graphics settings all cranked up & still could see nothing at all!

[WADE1 Jya]

LOL at Tex's comment to Pep.

[Chronometria]

Ahh, draw distance makes sense as i keep mine quite low for performance reasons. Useful to have these encounters with mesh so as to learn a little about how it works.

[Melita Magic]

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Pep wrote:

What do they look like to the majority of SL residents who are sensible enough to use viable viewers?

 

Pep (has heard they appear as floating turds.)

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Poop! I mean, Pep!

I'm sure they're adorable.

(You do pop in at the oddest topics)