Oh boy, what a MESH.....

It is all so meshed up these days: Linden Lab is bringing mesh import capabilities to Second Life and there is little we can do about it....Draxtor is shivering & hoping this won't destroy his beloved little fantasy world [like voice, sculpties & windlight did....] Meshuggah indeed!

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[MrChantelleA]

Man, I wish I could run shadows without lagging like a mofo!

[draxtordespres]

@MrChantelleA i am with you! but the day shall come :)

[AdeonWriter]

The ability to teleport at will with no fee is going to ruin SL forever, people will just hop all over the place

[draxtordespres]

@AdeonWriter damn, I totally forgot about that....that's why my avatar gained 40 pounds in the last few years...:(

[QarlFizz]

@AdeonWriter and rock n' roll music will be the end of civilization!

[draxtordespres]

@QarlFizz NO!!! comic books are the end to literature - my mom threw away my SciFi books & see where I am now? She should have fed me some harsher meds....:)

[Prince12Resident]

Nice Track^^



[LighteswordXue]

As much as I love sculpties.. I have to agree. Voice is nice.. but.. most of us use skype or other voice things therein. Windlight, when it was introduced.. stability shot into the floor.. I never once lagged or crashed or anything before that.. then again I've been on SL since 07.. others way before that so you know they miss alot of the stability. Mesh? Well.. it sucks. It has some ups.. but all those ups are scaled by all the downs.

[AtariWill123]

Too bad mesh turned out to be a massive crap.

Mesh prim counts are weighed very strangely. With that said, if you want to use them, you can't resize them. Resizing a mesh prim bigger add's to the prim count.

You wanted to attach that mesh prim to a regular prim object? Ok, now all the regular prims are weighed like mesh prims. Why develop this if its made to piss people off? So much for that 'revolution'

If you want to stab your eyes out because of it, you can bet Linden Lab came up with it.

[oleetzel]

wunderbar!

[MonsterMunchAreAce]

@lordfirefox I dont have any real problems with the programs needed , what I dont appreciate is the people going around saying "if you dont have maya you are screwed" , they seem to of died off lately due to the fact people contradict them enough and that it is widely known that current sculpting tools will be able to quite easily switch to being mesh tools , I do have a product of my own though that I believe will allways need to be sculpt though , Ill send you a link later when I have time .

[lordfirefox]

If you were to upload the same shape in .dae with less vertices used and the same texture baked in for the skin you'd see the mesh upload rez in at 0.05ms, about the same rez speed of a regular prim in SL.

As for the prim count it will help a lot to decrease prim usage simply because you can define a mesh more accurately than you can a sculpt. Right now in the beta the streaming cost is set rather high for testing purposes but that will change.

[lordfirefox]

@MonsterMunchAreAce No anyone who can learn Blender or Wings3D will be able to upload .dae files provided they're willing to take the time to learn something. And both of those programs are free. There's also Caligari Truespace which has a much nicer interface than Blender and is Also free. People need to stop making excuses.

[lordfirefox]

@MonsterMunchAreAce As a matter of fact it will. And how did I measure the load times, pretty damn simple, Take a sculpt made with two textures (the shape and the baked texture) upload it and then edit a prim and change it to sculpt, take note of the loading time. Over 5 seconds I guarantee it because of the fact that sculpts have a set number of vertices you cannot change.