Difference between revisions of "Mesh"

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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 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

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.
Import your SL account to Aditi (see 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 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.
See what people have been working on, or try uploading some sample content of your own!

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Latest news and your feedback

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:

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.

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.

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.

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-== Feedback ==
+== Latest news and your 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:
+=== Discussion forums ===
-* [https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/CreateIssue.jspa?pid=10160&issuetype=1 Public JIRA Tracker] Report bugs here (be sure to login first using your Second Life account).
+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]'''.
-* [https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=13620 Unresolved Mesh Beta issues] List of known issues.
-* [http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Mesh/bd-p/Mesh Mesh Forum] Participate in discussions of Mesh on our public forum.
+'''Latests posts from the forum''':
-* [https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh/UserGroup User Group Agenda] Participate in the Mesh Beta User Group.
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+=== Fixes and feature requests ===
+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!
+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 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|Content Creation, Mesh Import, Scripting User Group]] page.
 == Miscellaneous Articles ==
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 * [http://blogs.secondlife.com/community/answers/mesh SL Answers Page] Answers to common Mesh questions.
-== QA and Bugs ==
-* [[Mesh/Mesh Tests|Mesh Tests]] : Current and pending test plans.
 [[Category:Mesh]]