Shack Dougall kirjoitti:
wondering about meshes and what I would have to do to add mesh support to Prim Composer so that it could upload meshes to
Use an existing Ogre mesh exporter for 3ds max.
1) What viewers can display mesh content from Taiga? Has this been implemented in Naali yet (hopefully)? Does realXtend Viewer 0.42 work with Taiga (probably not)?
Both the old reX viewer and Naali.
2) What external tools (if any) currently exist for adding meshes to Taiga?
Ogre exports in basically all modelling apps. Then either uploading the mesh manually to your inventory, or loading the whole scene via the dotscene import console command (http://realxtend.blogspot.com/2009/12/tutorial-to-import-scene-from-blender.html , works from max too).
3) Is there a client/server protocol for uploading meshes to Taiga? Is it documented?
We currently use the LLUDP protocol, Mesh and Ogre materials etc. being a new asset type. So they are uploaded like assets normally, and they end up in the inventory. That has been so since the beginning of rex in late 2007.
For the new stuff, we've implemented WebDAV (http) inventory, so that you can mount your inventory as a shared disk to your desktop or use http uploads. I've been planning to use these http uploads to send meshes directly from 3d modelling apps to worlds, http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/3d_Creation_Suite_Integration_Working_Group
Naali. If that's true, then it seems like I could modify Prim Composer to upload meshes to Taiga and then walk around in them using Naali. Probably, I would want to modify LibOpenMetaverse to speak Taiga's mesh protocol.
Or use http. Or the Naali net lib, if we one day package it for easy reuse outside the Naali framework itself. But yep having rex support in libomv is much desired and has been discussed long ago. Can be now though that using standard Internet protocols evades that need.
Am in a hurry now to leave for our Easter trip, but really happy to hear about your interest!
--Shack http://liferain.com/downloads/primcomposer/
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