Mesh

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Status	Mesh Project Viewer
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. 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.

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, and the process of rolling out mesh support to agni has started.

Getting started

Mesh is in the early stages of being enabled on agni, and is not generally available there yet. For now, you can test it on several mesh-enabled regions on aditi as follows:

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. Enable the grid selection dropdown in Me->Preferences->Advanced->Show Grid Selection or by typing CTRL+SHIFT+G.
5. In grid selection, choose the Aditi beta grid.
6. 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.

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

Latest news and your feedback

Mesh Import User Group

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 page.

Fixes and feature requests

To see features and fixes other Residents are asking for, check out the most popular open issues. To bring more attention to an issue, please add your vote!

Found a new bug or want to request an improvement? Here's how to report it.

Discussion forums

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 Mesh discussion forums.

Latests posts from the forum:

Miscellaneous Articles

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• 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.