Mesh

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Note: These pages are currently undergoing renovation; expect to see a lot of information moved and/or updated. Check back soon for updates!

Status	Mesh Project Viewer
The Mesh Project viewer and mesh support on Aditi are in early beta release. Issues such as crashes or loss of mesh content may occur. Mesh Coming to Second Life This Summer! - 5/32/11 blog post. See Content Creation/Mesh Import User Group for more information and recent news.

Mesh

• Basics
  • How mesh content affects you
  • FAQ
  • Knowledge Base articles:
    • Uploading a mesh model
    • Calculating land impact
• Advanced
  • Decomposing a mesh for physics shape
  • Uploading and wearing a rigged mesh
  • Uploading a multi-face mesh
  • Upload Model window UI reference
  • Rigging Fitted Mesh
  • Animesh User Guide
• Project Information
  • Report a bug or request a feature
  • User group (office hour)
  • Mesh forum
• Technical Information
  • Mesh asset format
  • Avatar Shape XML Format
  • Calculating land impact
    • Download weight
    • Server weight
    • Physics weight
  • Display weight
  • Mesh technical FAQ
  • Why "UUID Flipping" is bad
• Mesh creation tools
  • Sample mesh content
  • 3DS Max
  • Blender
  • Maya
  • Sketchup
  • ZBrush
  • Other tools

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 initially, and will be available to all residents after the open beta period is concluded.

Getting started

1. Download the Mesh Import Project Viewer from Second Life's 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.

2. Import your SL account to Aditi (see Updating Your Account on Aditi for instructions).
3. Install and run the Viewer.
4. 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.

5. Go to region Mesh City or any of the other 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.

6. See what people have been working on, or try uploading some sample content of your own!

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Feedback

We would love to hear your feedback on any part of the mesh project. The primary means of giving feedback is by filing bugs, but you can also participate in our forums:

• Public JIRA Tracker Report bugs here (be sure to login first using your Second Life account).
• Unresolved Mesh Beta issues List of known issues.
• Mesh Forum Participate in discussions of Mesh on our public forum.
• User Group Agenda Participate in the Mesh Beta User Group.

Miscellaneous Articles

• Resident-run Mesh images group on Flickr, also search Flickr for the "slmesh" tag
• Depth of Field
• Mesh Optimizations ("From Sculpty to Mesh")
• SL Answers Page Answers to common Mesh questions.

QA and Bugs

• Mesh Tests : Current and pending test plans.