opengl export

has anybody ever asked for a feature to export objects created inworld. it wouldn't have to save more than an xml file of opengl data.

would it?

This has been asked for several times. I want export and I want it now. Without further ado, the threads:

(Poll: Loacal Object Export) /13/70/17842/1.html

(Content Export Discussion Thread) /13/3f/14965/1.html

(One way object export) /13/70/17408/1.html

(Client side backup utility) /13/45/12635/1.html

(Old thread on other modeling formats) /13/d0/382/1.html

(XML Obect Export) /13/22/7827/1.html



Newbies. Should search. **Shakes Head**

in all those threads, i found one linden response from peter posted in january of 2003:

Importing objects=really hard
This has been discussed a number of times, and is answered somewhat vaguely in the Knowledge base so I'll attempt to answer it better here.

For this system, it is very difficult for us to build a converter or off-line editor. By that I mean, its really hard. And probably harder than that. It would require us to build a mini-system/executable program that would run locally on a machine, then go through the intricacies of registering the object once you tried to import it, along with the numberous other things that we do once new objects are created.

Rather than focus our programming staff on making yet another piece of software, we are dedicating our resources to improving Second Life. Once we have the time, and we are satisfied with the system to the point that we can spare some engineers, we will start working on an off-line import tool. As it stands, thats probably not going to be for a long while.

Make sense?

-Peter

is this still the official stance?