[Opensim-users] Visibuild Imports 3ds Max, Maya and Sketchup Files into OpenSim World RealXtend

[Ai Austin]

>From: DutchGlory <info at verwijs-pc.nl>
>would this be possible with non-RealXtend  opensim?  or is this just one of
>many "fables"...http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/03/revit.html

See http://openvce.net/mesh-in-sl-and-opensim

Here is a little report on my own attempts this week to take 3DS and 
Lightwave (LWO) meshes via Blender and Collada export into Second 
Life Beta Test grid (Aditi) and OpenSim on an OSGrid sandbox region.

I also got the meshes imported to Sketchup, but the Collada exports 
from that crash the viewer (the again they also crash Blender 2.534 
when I try importing to that!).

Note the mesh is quite a detailed one... but I was seeing what could 
and could not be done beyond the simple tutorial objects that LL 
provide on their Mesh Wiki.

The OSGrid import is actually quite good, and not far away from what 
the mesh looked like when first imported to Sketchup.  Some flipping 
of the face normals and texturing parts that look transparent where 
they should not might make this fixable with some work.