Unity3D from Denmark & CUME from China

Cume with the Unity3D plugin

Unity's Asset Pipeline (clipped from unity's web site)

3D formats Meshes Textures Anims Bones Maya .mb & .ma1 3D Studio Max .max1 Cheetah 3D .jas1 Cinema 4D .c4d1 2 Blender .blend1 Carara1 Lightwave1 XSI 5.x1 SketchUp Pro1 Wings 3D1 3D Studio .3ds Wavefront .obj Drawing Interchange Files .dxf Autodesk FBX .fbx 1 Import uses the application's FBX exporter. Unity then reads the FBX file. 2 Cinema4D 10 has a buggy FBX exporter. Please see here for workarounds.

Image Formats Photoshop .psd and .tiff are imported with layers automatically flattened. JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TGA, IFF, PICT and many other image formats are supported. Video and Audio Formats Ogg Theora video is natively supported. Ogg Vorbis .ogg audio files are natively supported, and are ideally suited for soundtracks. Video MOV, AVI, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MP4VIDEO files are recoded by Unity with a configurable bitrate. Audio AIFF, WAV, MP3 and most other audio format are stored uncompressed, ideally suited for sound effects. Other File Formats XML and text files with .xml and .txt extensions can be referenced at runtime. Any other file types, such as RTF and DOC, can be used for project notes and to-do lists.

Work In Process - Collaboration

Work In Process - Collaboration, originally uploaded by jeanricard.broek.

This is a screen shot showing three windows

1. The Command Console
   
2. Our Demo Sketchup model of The Baden Street Gaming Center converted to 3ds and running as a live walkthru. Note the screen on the wall is running interactive flash.
3. Fully interactive browser on a 3D surface. You can click, log in to sites, navigate and play flash - The example here is My YouTube page and a running Obama video.

Next step - Bringing this to OpenSim, RealXtend & reactiongrid

Recent SL Machinima

MaxMoney Sim: by toxicmenges


AM Radio - Second Life: - HD: by Nitwacket


ChouChou: by rockerfaerie aka colemarie soleil

Three Useful Links for HTML Media in a Prim:

• Knowledge Base with Torley Tutorials
  
• HTML on Prim & build-in web browser in Second Life

The next is untested and this requires the old Release Candidate since the Second Life 1.22.11 (113941) Mar 6 2009 does not have a plugin folder. Beware this is therefore experimental, not on the SL Main branch now for some reason.

• How to: Get Flash Player to work in Second Life

Mashup of SL and Web 2.0 - Flickr Contacts - Who do you know?

Like many others I am more connected by Twitter, Flickr, Skype and blogs then you would think from my friends list and the limited SL profile group listing. With LL looking to make SL and the Web 2.0 more integrated in their SL 2.0 future version; Listen to Kingdom Interview & quoting Tateru Nino, Mar 29th

Viewer 2009 seems like it will involve an almost complete rework of the much-maligned Second Life user-interface, with two big-name companies reinventing it. Big Spaceship (whom we already know) appear to be primarily involved with design and feel, while 80/20 looks to be producing the implementation. We don't believe that any additional customer input is being entertained in the meantime, judging by Benjamin Linden's long absence from his regular office hours.

Third party viewer developers have been taking advantage of Benjamin's absence to consolidate wishlists from Second Life users at the scheduled office hours for incorporation into their own viewers.

It looks increasingly as if there will be two entirely divergent user-interfaces evolving through this year. One based on what the users say they want, and one based on what the Lab and two design firms believe they want. That's going to be an interesting showdown, and no mistake.

, this could get crazy.

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Now imagine the mash up of this with the 500 SL Active Blogs list by ArminasX Saiman, and a new viewer with full 2.0 HTML/Flash widgets, simple embedding both on a prim, and in dockable HTML sidebars. like your this or your blog. Click on a prim and get all the info via SaaS, a video, steaming HDTV, today's lesson plan or test, an avatar prim adjuster app, Your AO, or at the least a product listing from Xstreet or a blinking advertisement from google (ouch).

Who will deliver first; Linden Lab, Open Sim, or the let's add 3D to the browser contingent?