Difference between revisions of "Mesh"

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Mesh is the capability to bring 3D models, known as meshes, created in third-party tools into Second Life. Mesh background information explains in detail.

Prerequisites

Viewer

To upload and render mesh content, you need a mesh-enabled viewer, such as the official Second Life Viewer.http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/. If you are using a third-party viewer, check its documentation to see if it supports mesh.

If you don't already have a mesh-enabled viewer:

Download the Second Life Viewer from Second Life's Downloads page.
Install and run the Viewer.

Mesh tutorial

To upload mesh content you must accept the IP terms and have payment info on file.

Getting started

To try out mesh:

Go to one of all the sandboxes in Second Life. See Second Life Public Sandboxes.
Some sandboxes may become overcrowded with Residents and have poor performance. If you see objects that look like a lot of flat triangles, try moving to another region.
See what people have been working on, or try uploading some sample content of your own!

Save L$ by testing on the beta grid

Uploading mesh content to the main Second Life grid costs Linden dollars. For development and testing, upload your content to the Aditi beta grid instead. For more information about Aditi, see Preview Grid.

Follow these steps to upload models to Aditi:

Import your SL account to Aditi (see Updating Your Account on Aditi for instructions).
Enable the grid selection dropdown on the Second Life login screen in Me > Preferences > Advanced > Show Grid Selection or by typing CTRL+SHIFT+G.
Note: You may need to enable the Advanced menu by pressing Ctrl+Shift+D
In grid selection, choose the Aditi beta grid.
Your account on the beta grid has its own L$ balance, so Linden dollars earned and spent on Aditi do not affect your main grid L$ balance.

Related Resources

Prims, Prim Equivalent, Land Impact... a too long guide An in-depth exploration of land impact, originally posted by Jenni Darkwatch in the Mesh forum.
Resident-run Mesh images group on Flickr, also search Flickr for the "slmesh" tag
Depth of Field An optional graphical effect, particularly useful for enhancing screenshots.
Mesh Optimizations A tutorial covering the transition from sculpted prims to mesh models.
SL Answers Page Answers to common Mesh questions on the Second Life community website.
Mesh Enablement How to enable mesh upload abilities on your Second Life account.
Basic Intro to Maya Tutorials A series of tutorials for learning Autodesk Maya, an external 3D software program for making mesh for Second Life.

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-* The Mesh Project viewer is the release candidate for an upcoming mesh-enabled main viewer release. It can be used to view mesh content on mesh-enabled regions, including test regions of aditi, and a small but increasing number of regions on agni as well.
-* [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Mesh-Coming-to-Second-Life-This-Summer/ba-p/902061 Mesh Coming to Second Life This Summer!] - 5/31/11 blog post.
-* See [[Content Creation/Mesh Import User Group]] for more information and recent news.
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+'''Mesh''' is the capability to bring 3D models, known as ''meshes'', created in third-party tools into Second Life. [[Mesh background information]] explains in detail.
-Mesh is a new capability to bring models, known as meshes, created in other applications into Second Life. Mesh is available on the aditi developer grid, and the process of rolling out mesh support to agni has started.
+== Prerequisites ==
-== Getting started - testing mesh on aditi ==
-Mesh is not generally available on agni yet. For now, you can test it on several mesh-enabled test regions on aditi as follows:
-# Download the '''Mesh Import Project Viewer''' from Second Life's [[Linden_Lab_Official:Alternate_Viewers#Second_Life_Project_Viewers | Alternate Viewers page]].
-#: Look for the '''Mesh Import Project Viewer''' installer in the '''Second Life Project Viewers''' section. Be sure not to install the project Viewer in the same folder as your existing Viewer 2 installation, or you will likely get a "application failed to initialize properly" error upon startup.
-# Import your SL account to Aditi (see [[Preview_Grid#Updating_Your_Account_on_Aditi|Updating Your Account on Aditi]] for instructions).
-# Install and run the Viewer.
-# Logging in takes you to the '''Aditi''' beta grid.
-#: If for some reason you do not arrive on the Aditi grid automatically, type CTRL+SHIFT+G on the login screen to bring up the grid selector pulldown and type or select '''Aditi'''.
-# Go to region [secondlife://Aditi/secondlife/Mesh%20City/233/163/56 Mesh City] or any of the other [[Mesh/Mesh regions|Mesh-enabled regions]].
-#: Note that Mesh City and its variants can get overloaded with Residents during peak hours, which may impact performance. You may want to check the Mesh Sandboxes if you're having trouble logging into Mesh City or if everything there looks like large triangles instead of meshes.
-# See what people have been working on, or try uploading some [[Mesh/Sample_Content|sample content]] of your own!
-== Latest news and your feedback ==
+=== Viewer ===
-=== Mesh Import User Group ===
+To upload and render mesh content, you need a ''mesh-enabled viewer'', such as the official Second Life Viewer.[http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/].  If you are using a [[Third Party Viewer Directory|third-party viewer]], check its documentation to see if it supports mesh.
-The Mesh team holds a weekly user group focused on all things related to the mesh import project.  For full information on the user group and an archive of past transcripts, check out the [[Content Creation, Mesh Import, Scripting User Group|Content Creation, Mesh Import, Scripting User Group]] page.
-=== Fixes and feature requests ===
+If you don't already have a mesh-enabled viewer:
-To see features and fixes other Residents are asking for, check out '''[https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/CTS#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Apopularissues-panel the most popular open issues]'''. To bring more attention to an issue, please add your vote!
+# Download the '''Second Life Viewer''' from Second Life's [http://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ Downloads page].
+# Install and run the Viewer.
-Found a new bug or want to request an improvement? '''[[Mesh/Report_a_bug_or_request_a_feature|Here's how to report it.]]'''
+=== Mesh tutorial ===
-=== Discussion forums ===
+To upload mesh content you must accept the IP terms and have payment info on file.
-The Mesh team scans the forums frequently to answer questions and ask for feedback. To discuss the latest news, or anything related to Mesh, go to the '''[http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mesh/bd-p/Mesh Mesh discussion forums]'''.
-'''Latests posts from the forum''':
+* [https://secondlife.aditi.lindenlab.com/my/account/ip/accept.php IP terms for the beta grid (Aditi).  You do not need payment information on file for the beta grid.]
+* [https://secondlife.com/my/account/ip/accept.php IP terms for the Main Grid (Agni)]
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-== Miscellaneous Articles ==
+== Related Resources ==
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+* '''[http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mesh/Prims-Prim-Equivalent-Land-Impact-a-too-long-guide/td-p/1293579 Prims, Prim Equivalent, Land Impact... a too long guide]''' An in-depth exploration of ''land impact'', originally posted by Jenni Darkwatch in the Mesh forum.
 * [http://www.flickr.com/groups/secondlife3dmesh/ Resident-run Mesh images group on Flickr], also [http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=slmesh&m=tags search Flickr for the "slmesh" tag]
-* [[Depth of Field]]
+* [[Depth of Field]] An optional graphical effect, particularly useful for enhancing screenshots.
-* [http://blog.machinimatrix.org/optimizing-meshes/ Mesh Optimizations] ("From Sculpty to Mesh")
+* [http://blog.machinimatrix.org/optimizing-meshes/ Mesh Optimizations] A tutorial covering the transition from sculpted prims to mesh models.
-* [http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/answers/mesh SL Answers Page] Answers to common Mesh questions.
+* [http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/answers/mesh SL Answers Page] Answers to common Mesh questions on the Second Life community website.
+* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh_Upload_Enablement Mesh Enablement]  How to enable mesh upload abilities on your Second Life account.
+* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh/Maya_Basic_Intro_Tutorial Basic Intro to Maya Tutorials] A series of tutorials for learning Autodesk Maya, an external 3D software program for making mesh for Second Life.
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