Hi and welcome We are currently working on content creation tools and actually the entire content pipeline. We did tests with scene import directly from Blender, you can learn more here: http://realxtend.blogspot.com/2009/12/tutorial-to-import-scene-from-blender.html. 3DS Max import has been tested as well and we're looking into expanding the functionality.
In general, in-world building tools are currently quite minimal. The base platform has just reached a certain level of maturity, making content creation one of the current hot topics, which again means that your experience and expertise could come in very handy in the near future. I'd very much like to see you try realXtend out and see what you can do with it. Anyway, welcome to the community, I hope you'll enjoy your stay. 2010/2/20 mojoDallas <[email protected]> > Hello community. I am a newbie developer wanting to get involved. > Here is a little about me and maybe you can direct me to how I can > best get involved and who I should contact that has common interests > and goals. Thanks So much! > > My Experience: > > I have been around the Metaverse off and on over the last 5 years. > > Second Life: I was very active in Second Life for a couple of years > with a number of avatars. I opened and ran a series of Stores. Did a > lot of content creation associated with Clothes and Costumes. I was an > artist showing some of my digital art at a number of galleries. I ran > art shows. Ran a couple of game shows on a weekly basis at the > Shelter. I am a musician, so, I started performing music in Second > Life, as well. I probably did 50 or so concerts. I was a team captain > for a Relay for Life Team. I did a lot of LSL scripting. I did > machinima which you can see on You Tube. So, in general I immersed my > self on Second Life and then got totally and utterly burned out on it > all and left. The last set of things I wrote was software that would > port models out of Second Life and save them into Blender as > Wavefront .obj models. > > Multiverse: I then spent part of a year playing with the Multiverse > MMORPG software for creating on-line games that are like World of > Warcraft. The Multiverse platform is very new and uses Python, Java > and OGRE which I know how to program in. I get very involved in the > forums and building content and importers to move 3D models into the > Multiverse platform. This included an improved Character Selection > Section and converting 2600 Animations from the Carnegie Mellon > University Human Motion Study Library into BVH format. I had a website > called MINDIES (Metaverse Independent Developers) for a while where I > tried to generate interest in the work I was doing. I extended my > Content Pipeline to move models from Second Life into the Multiverse > product. I also did a lot of documentation in the developer wiki. To > get a better idea at the things I worked on you can see the tutorials > at: > http://update.multiverse.net/wiki/index.php/Special:Contributions/LightninBoySnook > > I stopped working on this as the platform still had a long way to go > before it was marketable and I found that I really didn't want to > create a game, but, I was more interested in 3D modeling and world > creation and hence the move to Poser and Vue. I have spent the last > 18 months just doing digital art in Hexagon, Blender, Poser and Vue. > You can see my gallery at Renderosity at > http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=454346 > or check out some my work at You Tube: > http://www.youtube.com/user/mojoDallas > > I am now ready to move on from this as well. You can only do so many > portraits, architecture vizs and landscapes. I then looked back on > line to see what was going on in the Second Life community and decided > to get up to speed on OpenSim and then came across Realxtend. I would > like to get involved in the content pipeline portion of this project > as it is an area I have spent a lot of time working on and it also > addresses my need for creativity. If anyone has ideas of how to get > involved please let me know. > > Again thanks for taking a look. > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend > http://www.realxtend.org -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org
