Friday, November 28, 2008

Just my 2 cents.

Assalamualaikum and hi :) 

I have checked out IMVU/Secondlife/3d Rad and Virtools that might benefit the vrilliants. 

Here are the info.

IMVU.
  • Membership is free.
  • It provides room for the user to navigate in the scene.
  • To become an IMVU Creator, one must have credit to buy an avatar name. 
  • It chargers for $25.59 for 3 room. For full range of prices, check http://www.imvu.com/store/store_us.php
  • It uses 2D paint software that exports jpg, gif and png, 3d Max 7 (currently supported) and Flash.
  • For more information on how to create in IMVU, kindly go to this url. http://www.imvu.com/creators/
  • Allow to create, animation, moves, emotion.
Secondlife.

  • Membership is free.
  • It provides land for the user to navigate in the scene.
  • It chargers according to the area. For further info, click here http://secondlife.com/land/pricing.php
  • It offers its own 3d engine to build and create anything via online.
  • The uploading file costs $10 per transaction.
  • It uses XML, C+Java, LSL scripting for the animation and interaction.
  • For more information, click http://secondlife.com/whatis/
3dRad

  • The software is FREE.
  • It offers networking; chat.
  • It uses third party software such as Maya, 3d Max, Sketch Up and etc for the modeling and animation.
  • It requires extension plugin to import a textured model.
  • For more info, here http://www.3drad.com/
  • Also in here http://www.3drad.com/forum/index.php

Virtools

  • It uses third party software such as (3ds Max®, Maya®, XSI®, Lightwave®, Collada®) for importing/exporting 3D XML files.
  • Real time environment.
  • Offer scripting for interaction.
  • Difficult to do networking.

That is all for now. bye bye.

 

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