http://liferain.com/downloads/primcomposer/

anyhow, I think for sure the first thing we’ll see is a rush to bring in mesh stuff from the likes of turbosquid, which will be disastrous, because much of it isn’t textured, or if it is, has too many textures for the likely format that’ll be implemented, as well as most of it being so massively high poly it’ll be both expensive to bring in, and “expensive” to render.

that rush will be followed by a much more refined rush of actual game content pros bringing their skill sets in to make some amazing products / items / whatever. These things will be amazingly optimized, beautifully crafted, highly polished textures, but also almost completely inflexible. You get what you buy and nothing more.

The part that will come after that will probably be the more component related stuff, like the various furniture packs where you get 30 pieces that can make up couches, chairs, beds, whatever. I think this is where meshes are going to breathe the most life into SL. Hopefully these kinds of things will come with a way to download original meshes so people can get their feet wet in 3d modelers to fine tune / customize / texture / etc., while we all “wait” for philip to push forward some kind of more dynamic in world editor.

In casual discussion I tend to be pretty critical of Philip and his return. There are some things that trouble me, his past behavior… tending to promise the sky and deliver…well… almost nothing. As well as being baffled by changes made since his return, such as an almost utter collapse of the search function, announced changes to SLX that don’t seem too favorable, and the firing of Qarl (who brought us sculpties and was working hard on meshes).

Getting that all off my chest, I will say, I still have glimmers of hope / optimism, mainly because I know the potential. Reading other streams of thought from this blog, terms like emotional bandwidth comes up… that’s something I am intimately familiar with, having almost entirely burned out that port on more than one occasion… and will likely do again and again till I run out of bandwidth. This is where that hopetimism comes from. I DO hope philip has changed, I DO hope he follows through, and I DO hope I can find a broader range of things to rant about (a hope that many who listen to me share)after all these wishes come true.

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I dont know of any way to convert Sl prim data to another usable form. IS there a tool? All XML ive removed cannot be read by any 3d format tool i have seen.

BTW- im many ways truespace-now dead- bought ahd buried by Microsoft- offered what you speak of..
but with out a true business /economic model to its existance, other than NEAT CODE that sounds like Philips talking…. it all goes nowhere eventually…

or it allows for the 4 year myths that cults like SL are allowed to profit from.

this has nothing to do with rennasainces of creativity… and besides..one really should do some history on the whole “rennasaince thing”…

a few artists/technologits got paid by the church or armied up king… those who challenged the church/or king got jailed/killed…. 99% of everyone else was a servant farmer…lol

just like SL…? imagination its home…lol
i though that was the mac in 1989.:)

ive had mesh based models ready to go since 2003..lol by the time Ll needs them to prophetelize on, theyll be no one left to afford anything in the walled town.

sad….as others said, if only the platform could have been developed for humans sustanance… not the machines.