OMG I want a little statue of me too!

I'm also an urban vinyl fan. If you aren't familiar with Vinyl Pulse - Link - I highly recommend a visit (esp on Friday's when they post toy development updates).

The code works very nicely. No problems whatsoever with SL. Here's my blog entry discussing what I've found so far: http://blog.rebang.com/?p=594 (for anyone who's seen my avatar profile, that's the object behind me).

Additionally, here's a link to a bigger screenshot: Prims in Maya

Did it capture everything as one big prim/mesh, or as seperate parts?

Individual tri's. I captured it way up in the sky to avoid a lot of noise so that helped quite a bit (the Quake rocket I captured last year had to be plucked from a lot of captured game geometry).

The only thing I did here was clean out a few stray triangles (I was near my skybox), delete what looked like essentially flat map-style "caulk" boundary walls (odd), "Polygon>Combine" all the object tri's, then reset the object origin.

This is a business opportunity waiting to happen, for SL'ers with some 3D know-how and access to a 3D printer. Apparently at this point the results need some clean-up work before they can be fabricated.

Does this program allow you to capture the visages of other players as well? I wonder how much SL players would be willing to pay in order to prevent the production and sale of their avatar, posed in all kinds of unspeakable acts.

um, more an issue of how much people can make suing your ass for copyright infringement, since we own IP to our AVs.

1. I know people are making fun of this, but "3d printers" do exist, and they're around $2000. While this is expensive, it's not impossible.

Here is a link to one.

And this does work, and while it may be a way to subvert copyrights, import has a long way to go. But right now, I consider it a good thing since now we will not lose what we've created in SL.

1. I know people are making fun of this, but "3d printers" do exist, and they're around $2000. While this is expensive, it's not impossible.

Here is a link to one.

And this does work, and while it may be a way to subvert copyrights, import has a long way to go. I do think it's kind of tired and cheap that some people are viewing this as a way to copy other people's stuff.

But right now, I consider it a good thing since now we will not lose what we've created in SL.

That printer is pretty cool, Michi.

I would be interested in how much the material cost for the molding wax is, and how long it lasts.

I think it would be nice if there was somewhere in SL we could go and for a price someone would take a snapshot of us and ship a model the next day (or so).

That isn't a "printer". People need to be careful with nomenclature.

As for providing the service, I don't see an advantage at this point to buying a true "printer" (SLA, SLS, FDM). I believe the first sub-$10k device was announced in December, but I might be thinking of a 3D scanner.

In any event, I'll be sending my data out to service bureaus. I'll be sending out various quality models in the coming days and getting quotes. Different size models, different methods (solid shape or hollowed), different materials, aso.

When I have time I'll try to post information that might be of interest to people.

Because of the serious lame-o modding in this forum, I'll post here:

You can now get a keychain version of your avatar from www.crystalrender.com .. only 59.95

It's pretty cool, I've almost got ogle working on this.

The Crystal "tower" is actually quite small - about 3" and the "ultimate" globe isn't much bigger in diameter and costly. I also found the 20k poly limit/5mb upload limit a disappointment. I blogged (Link) about this company yesterday but I'm more interested in watching how they deal with some other issues.

As for SL data, I've had success - Link . However, there are some issues I've run into wrt the options I want to provide. Avatar data is different than prim data and this causes additional work.

[Edit - I should mention, if someone has an avatar (without prim attachments) they want crystallized, drop me a note. I could provide the data for a small fee and you could use it as you see fit.]

If you could get me one *with* prim attachments, I'd be all for it. Without prim attachments a furry is rather ugly

I tried to capture Reitsuki, this is as far as I could get:

It can be done. How much effort for a particular process is the question. Right now I'm pushing for "solid" geometry. That's probably not necessary for many things. I'll know more soon.

Yes, I have gotten an avatar with prim attachments, however Reitsuki kept crashing my client.

OGLE is a bit flakey.

Basically, I just TP to a blank sim, and then turn off everything except for simple, volume, and avatar in the rendering menus and then toggle OGLE.

Generally works really well .. not sure why I couldn't get Reitsuki. It was only rendering about 900 tris per second. Maybe if I had tweaked the scale a bit.

On occasion I crash when capturing Doom3 data. But haven't had it crash SL even when capturing groups of av's in a busy sim. I assume your prefs are low and you have updated drivers.

Here's a dump of my desert avatar

And, yeah, the crash could be a client specific issue.

Asked a friend of mine about stuff like that a while ago. The problem with the "cheap" 3D printers is they're geared only to cut reliefs of objects on two axes, as opposed to a fully-featured 3D model. I guess you could work it that way if you wanted... but it's not exactly freeform, yet.


Ya. Stuff like this gives me even more reason to slack on the import side of things.

*cough* Suffice it, raw polygons being imported to SL is more or less a waste of time presently. I've been trying to work together a prim emulation solution, but it's fairly time-consuming versus my limited schedule. OGLE captures being reimported is more or less out of the question, methinks.


As for subverting of copyrights, ya. I keep hoping, like Csven, that the problem will call for a gross reengineering of how people perceive the problem, as opposed to simply ramping up on a broken technology like DRM.

Because the sleazebags don't just go away, and given half the chance (something DRM provides with impunity), they'll grab your stuff. The best way to avoid that is to incent them against it, be it with the carrot or the stick. DRM is clearly the stick. I'd like to see the carrot option be explored more.

That's never going to happen. Why? Because even people who understand the problem percieve it the same way as those who don't.

I think experimenting with DRM is just as good an idea as experimenting with tools like OGLE.

We can not be dogmatic about the end solution, but rather open, innovative, and ready to admit the truth when we finally encounter it - no matter how suprising it might be.