Comments on: 3D Objects: from Maya into Second Life

By: aus

aus — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:34:57 +0000

Hi
this is what I want..I need to import Maya objects into second life..here anybody tell me the full procedure of How to import maya objets into secondlife..My e-mail id is ,”austin@carbonon.com”

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:59:03 +0000

@Csven: Huh?! *scratches ears* ;)

@Loki: Pfffff! :p

@Nock: The other Lightwave vs. SL sculpties tutorial I mentioned, by Patchouli Woollahra.

@Kimo: Hmm. You can write ‘Vint’ correct, no? ;)

By: Kimo P

Kimo P — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:52:27 +0000

Ooooh, great updates! When I first read about ’sculpties’, I was sure I knew I could prolly get a CAD outline into SL and extrude. But JW Au’s article is fantastic documentation of his exercizes. Glad you mentioned that.
Sorry ’bout the email…I threw in a net instead of a com…hehe!
But that’s not bad considering I can misspell Torley and tutorial is the same sentence twice.
And that Loki! …he’s been drinkin again hasn’t he?
*looks for a shot glass to join him*

By: loki

loki — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:02:02 +0000

Reading your reply to Kimo … Vint, send him a FEmale next time … I’m sure that won’t come back undeliverable…. ;-)

By: csven

csven — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:39:21 +0000

Interesting and good news. Thank you.

One thing though. Technically, neither Maya nor Max (nor Lightwave) are “CAD’ programs. CAD applications are those programs like SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA, aso which are intended to create manufactured product. While real goods can be taken through a pipeline including those other applications, it’s very rare. Hence, they’re usually just called “modeling applications”.

And just to be even more “tekkie-wikinistic” (!), there is another class of applications called “surfacers”. They include Rhino, Alias Studio, MOI, FreeDimension, aso. They’re usually NURBs-based but with features that makes their integration with CAD applications much better than a Maya or Max.

Otay.

Thanks again for the news. Enjoying your blog.

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:37:26 +0000

Ty. I think there is an English tutorial too about how to export from LightWave. If you want to, I’ll look it up later tonight.

By: Nock Forager

Nock Forager — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:04:06 +0000

You better check this out too.

“LightWave 3D importer to SL”
http://www.dstorm.co.jp/info/press/press_text449.htm

I tried, and it worked. Same as “prim.blender”.
“Meshing technology” will be the keypoint of those import things.

By: Vint Falken

Vint Falken — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:30:51 +0000

Kimo, also check out this one on importing sculpties over at New World Notes.

(And next time, leave a working email address behind, so I don’t write a whole ~~male~~ mail to you only to get it returned undelivered.)

By: Kimo P

Kimo P — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:53:03 +0000

Thanks for posting this Vint. Something I’m very interested in.