Martie Heron

Thank you, Nacy, my models render quite nicely now. Wonder if LL will default the viewer in a later version to the higher LOD? Anyway, thank you, and thanks to Drongle again for his cogent explaination. Blue skies....Martie

wow, very informational exposition, from which I gained some insight, although I have not the background for full understanding. I think at this point I have done the steps necessary to turn the model into one mesh, and it my be that my problem is due to my viewer being set improperly, although I have explored various viewer options in trying to solve the problem. There may be an LOD setting I am missing in the new viewer. It would seem that the default setting should appropriatly upload common meshes. Have fun... Martie

Hi, before your post, I worried about the viewer and played with the settings...but where is the "render volume load thingy" ? I am looking....

Nacy, Thank you for the help, but unfortunately, I installed the plugin, exported it as a .obj file, uploaded it to blender, removed doubles, then recalculated normals, changed triangles to quads, exported it as a collada file, uploaded it to SL, used the auto generate function, and had the same outcome...very short draw distance...in the range of 3 meters before the object broke down. If you have any quick suggestions without using much of your valuable time, let me know. Otherwise I will keep toying with it and checking the forums. No hurries, no worries here with SL, just fun. Martie

Thanks, Nacy, I'll give that a try. I am at least encouraged that it is possible. Not sure if I grasp blender well enough to do as you suggest, but I will try. Thank you very much.

I cannot get Sketchup 8 to play well with SL. No matter what I try, even post processing with blender, and utilizing the triangulateFaces plugin for sketchup, the distance at which the object breaks down is unacceptably short. A simple chair breaks down in just a couple of meters distance. SL and Sketchup are two prominent players and it would benefit everyone if they played well with each other.