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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Seamless3d could import H-Anim a good many months ago
but for lack of time in testing, this is the first formal announcement. Also
improvements have been made over time including this last week.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Seamless3d is the only modeller I am aware of that can
use H-Anim as an interchange format for both exporting and importing avatars.
Thanks to the way Seamless3d natively indexes vertices for part ownership, there
is no need to re-rig the model for further modelling. With Seamless3d, animated
H-Anim avatars can be imported and exported repeatedly without accumulating file
bloat.<BR><BR>Single meshed H-Anim models that use either an IndexedFaceSet or
an IndexedTriangleSet node can be imported. <BR><BR>Nontiti has tested this
feature on an avatar he made using Vivaty Studio and was able to use this avatar
in Seamless chat and be able to export to use the setByVertexTransform so that
it can play efficiently in Cortona. I have tested the import feature on Lucy
exported a number of different ways and even got Seamless to import Joe D
William's avatar he made using only a text editor. Being able to import this
range of avatars without needing to hand edit the file suggests some robustness
has been attained.<BR><BR>For 2.151 I have added a new export option
outScriptAsRoutes. This feature causes simple lines of script that have a ROUTE
equivalent to be exported as ROUTEs instead of script. ROUTEs allow for
animations to be played by a greater range of VRML/X3D browsers, however this
export setting will prevent more advanced scripting features such as "if
statements" and math functions from being used for animation so don't use it for
any scripts more complex than nodeB.field = nodeA.field</FONT></DIV>
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<H2><FONT face=Verdana size=3>What can be done after importing?</FONT></H2><FONT
face=Verdana>Any of the </FONT><A
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title="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/immediate_commands/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
face=Verdana>Immediate Commands</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> can be used to
change the shape, color, vertex ownership etc. <BR><BR>View the pivot point
locations graphically and/or modify their locations and/or add new animations.
See the </FONT><A
href="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/beeline_anim/index.html"><FONT
title="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/beeline_anim/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
face=Verdana>beeline to animation tutorial/demo</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana>
and the </FONT><A
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title="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/nurbs_lathe_av/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
face=Verdana>nurbs lathe tutorial/demo</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> for
starters. Although these tutorials are aimed at using white parts they should be
easy to follow and the animation is essentially the same for blue
parts.<BR><BR>Import animations from smls and motion capture bvh files. See
</FONT><A
title="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/importing_gestures/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/importing_gestures/index.html"><FONT
title="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/importing_gestures/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
face=Verdana>importing gestures</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana> and </FONT><A
href="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/bvh/index.html"><FONT
title="http://www.seamless3d.com/tut/bvh/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
face=Verdana>Importing BVH files</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana>.<BR><BR>Export to
a wider range of browsers and possibly improve the quality of your model for the
browser, see updated for 2.151 </FONT><A
href="http://www.seamless3d.com/browser_test/index.html"><FONT
title="http://www.seamless3d.com/browser_test/index.html CTRL + Click to follow link"
face=Verdana>browser avatar compatibility test page</FONT></A><FONT
face=Verdana>.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana>Open Source Seamless3d 2.151 can be downloaded
from:<BR><BR></FONT><A
title="http://www.seamless3d.com/download CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://www.seamless3d.com/download" target=_blank><FONT
title="http://www.seamless3d.com/download CTRL + Click to follow link"
face=Verdana>seamless3d.com/download</FONT></A><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Thyme</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>