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What's Aditi and how do I login? Preview_Grid
Mesh Introductions:
Please be sure to read this entire document before beginning. It contains very important Logging in:
- Make sure you have the latest mesh enabled viewer installed.
- Run the newly installed viewer.
- Hit ctrl + shift + g (PC) or command + shift + g (Mac) at the login screen to bring up a list of grids you can connect to. Choose Aditi if it's not already selected.
- Login.
- Once logged in, in the slurl address bar at the top left of the screen, type in the name of the region XXXX and hit enter. You should
now teleport to a mesh enabled region. If this doesn't work, try searching for the region's name.
Creating and Converting Meshes:
- If you're a seasoned content creator, you probably already know about packages like 3D Studio, Maya, Blender, etc.
- If not, you can try out Google's SketchUp (http://sketchup.google.com/)
- The final output format you want is collada (.DAE). For now, you want to create single models, not whole scenes, as your DAE files.
- If you have models already and need an easy way to convert to collada (.DAE) files, you can try Autodesk's FBX Converter, which we prefer (midway down this page:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?siteID=123112&id=10775855) or MeshLab (http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/). Note that with the FBX converter you may have to convert first to an intermediary format and then to DAE.