1) edit/create 3d object 2) servers to connect to

> Hello,
>
> It's vacation time, and I'm having fun exploring croquet.
>
> I downloaded last version from opencroquet.org. (SDK 1.0 beta)
>
> Some beginners questions I have:
>
> 1. I would like to edit and create 3d objects as a 'user' not as a
> developer, but can't find the appropriate tools.  Found some articles
> which are mentioning Wicket and EditObject3D. Are these the tools to
> use? How to start these? It looks like they are not in the image I
> downloaded, and I can't find any Monticello package which would
> include these.

>
> On Dec 30, 2006, at 7:17 AM, Mathieu van Echtelt wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > It's vacation time, and I'm having fun exploring croquet.
> >
> > I downloaded last version from opencroquet.org. (SDK 1.0 beta)
> >
> > Some beginners questions I have:
> >
> > 1. I would like to edit and create 3d objects as a 'user' not as a
> > developer, but can't find the appropriate tools.  Found some articles
> > which are mentioning Wicket and EditObject3D. Are these the tools to
> > use? How to start these? It looks like they are not in the image I
> > downloaded, and I can't find any Monticello package which would
> > include these.
>
> Croquet chief architect and Wicket author has a commercial company
> called Qwaq.
>
> There are a lot of good non-collaborative tools for making 3D
> objects, including 3D Studio Max, Blender, Maya, Poser, SketchUp,
> etc. The Croquet SDK includes a reader for the .ase files produced by
> 3D Studio Max, and the Contrib library includes a reader for .vrml
> and one for Wavefront's .obj. The latter is used by Poser, which also
> puts out .bvh motion files that the Contrib code can read. (Some of
> the above tools can read other formats and produce one of these the
> supported formats.)
>
> The SDK also includes a  Morphic-based TPainter that lets you (non-
> collaboratively) sketch and color a 2D shape that it inflates to a 3D
> shape for you and puts it into the space.
>
> The Wisconsin package in the repository also has a block-world way of
> collaboratively and incrementally building things from within the
> space. You create and size blocks or other shapes created through the
> above approaches, and then paste textures onto them and paste the
> shapes onto each other. (This is roughly similar to the in-world
> building tool of Second Life.)  The same package lets you drag in
> pictures or .ase shapes into Croquet from your desktop.
>
> One issue with creating (or placing and arranging) stuff in-world is
> keeping them for another day. The SDK provides some developer-level
> tools for taking a #snapshot of a given world and resurrecting it
> later. Another approach is to just connect to a space that is "up"
> and which never completely goes "down". Which brings you to your next
> question...
>
> >
> > 2. Is there running a croquet server where I can connect to to play
> > around?
>
> Not yet. The above-mentioned Wisconsin package in the repository is
> set up to let folks do that, but it still needs some debugging and
> tuning. Stay tuned...
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > --
> > AG5 Product manager
> >
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