Prim Composer Status – March 2008



Prim Composer Status – March 2008

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Mar
2008

Article Overview

  1. Open source and Second Life: libsecondlife and OpenSim
  2. OpenSim: a closer look
  3. Supporting OpenSim in Prim Composer
  4. ALL (printer friendly)

Time for a Status Report

A lot has been happening with the development of Prim Composer and I want to take a moment to bring the community up to speed. This week I’ve been surveying the current landscape of open source tools for Second Life.

Open source and SL

libsecondlife

libsecondlife
libsl

I looked at libsecondlife, of course, to see how difficult it would be to use it to automate the prim import process. Looks good. I was able to quickly set up a working development environment, although it will take some time to fully understand the library.

OpenSim

Open source grid server
OpenSim

I also dropped in on the OpenSim project and was delighted by how much it has matured. To be honest, when I first heard about OpenSim over a year ago, I was skeptical. I’ve seen projects like this come and go with high hopes and little substance. But looking at it today, I’d say that OpenSim is poised to become a vital part of every builder’s repertoire.

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Comment by Albert Revolution
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2008-04-30 05:00:36

¡Great!. Really the users of your “genial” SculptGen are waiting for the Prim Composer, for SL and ¡¡ OpenSim !!. . Sculpties and SLprims together, a new way to improve our creativity. And for OpenSim a powerfull tool for the future.
“Muchas Gracias” for your job.

 
 
Comment by Pete         
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2008-05-05 20:06:10

Yes! Please make this for older versions of 3DS!!! I’m still using 7.0…

 
 
Comment by Kitsune         
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2008-05-05 23:02:25

Great!! but please, I need this for 3DS Max 8 pleaseeeee =((
Its the most used because have a lot of plugin for the 8 version that the new version havent.
Sorry for my english, im spanish.

PD: Thanks a lot of for this!!! =)

 
 
Comment by Purf         
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2008-06-05 18:11:51

sounds too good to be true! wonderful :) thank you !
ps: 3d max9 here

 
 
Comment by Shack Dougall
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2008-06-12 09:50:34

It’s almost here.  I’m planning to release the first version of Prim Composer at the end of June 2008 (in about two weeks).  This version will not require Max9.  It should work in any version of 3ds Max that SculptGenMax does.  Stay tuned!

 
Comment by Black         
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2008-06-26 08:40:13

Counting the hours :) , can’t wait to use 3ds max

 
 
 
Comment by Kitsune         
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2008-06-14 14:27:43

Thanks for all work Shack, and thanks for the complete compatibility with older versions :D

 
 
Comment by Black         
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2008-06-26 08:38:22

Counting the days :) . Cant wait to build in 3dsmax.

 
 
Comment by Shack Dougall
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2008-06-28 03:09:59

Prim Composer Version 1.0 beta 1 has been released!

 
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