import from 3d max

Hello everyone:

Is possible import my "3d MAX' models into second life???

What I need to do??? Please if is possible explain step by step

Thanks

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The short answer is no -- Second Life uses a proprietary "primitive" system that does not lend itself easily to arbitrary 3D models. They do this on purpose as a means of keeping data transfer rates low, though whether or not this is an effective means of doing so is debatable.

The long answer is I personally developed a means of doing so a year and a quarter ago in an attempt to import my own models. While this system does get models into Second Life, the results are very resource intensive (6 or more faces per triangle), inefficient (several hundred prims for a good model), sloppy (no way to smooth normals in a linked object), and occasionally, buggy and difficult to understand for the end user. Sorry about that. I don't have a lot to work with here.


So. Your best bet, as of the time of this writing, is to learn the primitive system instead of relying on imports of 3D models to Second Life. This is not to say the system itself is not open for debate; it is merely unrealistically difficult to bring outside models in presently.

Edit: Or, in very simple terms -- if you want to build here, use the tools that are given. Sorry.