{"id":676,"date":"2006-02-15T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2006-02-19T22:46:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T03:46:42","slug":"one-piece-of-the-transreality-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"One Piece of the Transreality Nexus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news. The Maya2Google Mel script I mentioned earlier (Link<\/a>) has been updated to support Maya 5. Big thanks to Theodore over at Eyebeam<\/a> for the fast turnaround. He warned of some shortcomings using version 5.0 – no progress bar and an inability to turn off the compass – but Maya 5.01 at least has a progress bar (I didn’t check the compass). It works beautifully.<\/p>\n

In any event, just to test the tool, I used some geometry I captured from Second Life<\/a>: what I’ve been calling my “protoSat”. This object is basically a multi-use virtual structure (still under construction) – something for in-world lectures, streaming movies, and real-world commerce… among other things. Here’s a screencap of that object hovering just above the clouds inside Second Life:<\/p>\n

\"reBang-protoSat-SL\"<\/p>\n

Using Eyebeam’s OGLE tool (Link<\/a>), I ripped the 3D data from the videostream and imported that into Maya 5.01. There wasn’t much clean-up. Here’s a screenshot of the entire thing (and my avatar – the tiny dot flying on top) after all the polygons have been “combined”:<\/p>\n

\"reBang-protoSat-SL\"<\/p>\n

And here is the unaltered object as shown inside Google Earth (I’m using the free version btw; after saving I simply launched GE using the resulting geometry file):<\/p>\n

\"reBang-protoSat-01\"<\/p>\n

I’ve already started texturing the Second Life build. When that’s completed – along with some other things related to this virtual bit of architecture – I’ll revisit the Google Earth model and give it some textures. After that I’ll just need to figure out the easiest way to share this kind of thing with other people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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