Searching for the Metaverse
If you have a domain and want to have metric about the traffic on it. If you have access to a PHP web server, here’s a simple solution. You can download the template here: visitor.zip Installation: Download the file: visitor.zip Edit the file “viewer.php“, you have 2 variable to configure in the top… Read more“Simple visitor tracker for your High Fidelity domain.”
I just released a new version of the FBXoMap tool. This time, I included an option to connects correctly the material to use the transparency from the Alpha channel of the “Diffuse” map. As you have certainly noticed, the FBX generated by Adobe Fuse / Mixamo come with an “Opacity” map that is… Read more“FBXoMap 2: Plug the Transparency on the Diffuse map without open Blender.”
Having left a bit my Second Life’s friends behind to jump in High Fidelity, I recently tried to establish a direct communication channel between the two products. So I put on a paper some key requirements to build a chat system able to be used from both sides: I wanted something easy to use,… Read more“Chat with your Second Life’s friends from High Fidelity”
Create an avatar in Adobe Fuse and make it usable in High Fidelity is still a complex thing to achieve. The following tutorial explains one way to do it without any loud and buggy editing in Blender or others 3d editor that cost more than the price of a new computer… Read more“Avatar: Adobe Fuse/Mixamo to High Fidelity without Blender”
Many people want to have music playing on their High Fidelity domain. But the options are limited for this. HF supports WAV sound, but you need to host the files and assume the bandwidth of relatively heavy files for every visitor. Another option is to use a Web entity. It’s… Read more“Play music on your High Fidelity domain.”
With the emergence of the VR technologies, many companies have pretended to build what could become the Metaverse. Having run after that Metaverse dream myself for years, it became a bit confusing to figure where I was to invest my time face to all those pretenders. In order to be… Read more“Quest for the Metaverse…”
Many people from Second Life or OpenSim complains about to have to become an expert in Blender to create in High Fidelity. Here for them what could be a solution: Build in Second Life to import in High Fidelity. It’s possible to build something in Second Life with primitives and import it in… Read more“Build in Second Life to import in High Fidelity…”
If you export an avatar from “Adobe Fuse / Mixamo” as a .fbx file with the goal to make a “High Fidelity” avatar, you will notice some issues. The eyelashes appear as ugly black shapes, the hair has lost their transparency, the nostrils are practically glowing. Editing this fbx in Blender is also quite an… Read more“FBXoMap – A solution between Mixamo FBX to High Fidelity”