Archipelis' SL Exporter allows 3D model importing into SL
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If you've kept away from learning to model in Second Life because of the non-intuitive user interface, you now have a new option available to you. Archipelis Designer is a 3D creation program that reportedly operates on the simple premise of drawing a 2D outline of your desired object, and working from there. But how do you get your creation into SL? Why, with Archipelis SL Exporter!From the website: 'L$10 are taken for every uploaded image [into SL]. A 3D model from Archipelis Designer will be converted into images to get scuplty prims definition (one image per shape and one image per texture of a shape). Thus L$100 to L$200 is required for one model (hopefully, it is a small amount of real dollars).' Here, it's my understanding that they're talking about how many shapes you use to create your model. So, depending on the complexity of your model, it could very well cost a bit more.
Now, not having used Archipelis Designer, I can't verify how difficult or easy it is to create a model. At $55, however, it's a fairly inexpensive modeling program, and the Exporter itself goes for $5, so if you think you might have a future in content creation in SL, this might be a great investment to make.
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Skate Foss said on 3:23PM 1-12-2008
Unfortunately, this application does not run on the Mac OS.
That is a big omission. Even the Archipelis site acknowledges that it is a priority to release a Mac OS X version soon.
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Prokofy Neva said on 3:50PM 1-12-2008
They might have chosen a less plug-ugly texture and ugly item to use as an advertisement for this potential to extend the use of SL. It also highlights one of the problems with creation in SL. If you use too photorealistic textures like this, the items don't look like they fit in the world, they're out of place with grass, sky, and trees that were drawn, not photorealized by the Lindens. So the better creators in SL know how to compensate for this and make a drawing rather than a mere photoreal copy.
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Nacon said on 9:19PM 1-12-2008
It would be a easy tool to work with into producing "junks".
However, the problem with this program isn't very savy with polygon counts on model creation. People would ended up using more than 5 sculpty prims to create one thing while it's simple enough to produce something with only one sculpty prim.
The Texture wise, that might be its best bet in that area where people hardly have the talent to map down the texture by hands.... not sure what the hell Prok is talking about though.
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Ghen said on 10:19PM 1-12-2008
always about the money, jeez. SL has some greedy modders.
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Melissa Yeuxdoux said on 10:26PM 1-14-2008
Sounds great... alas, it only runs under Windows. It says .NET is required... so is it written in C#? If so, why isn't there a version the runs on Linux, given Mono?
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