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Building from a Box – Second Life CAD

By AC3D, Importing into Second Life

As its Boxing Day (a public holiday celebrated in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia and many other members of the Commonwealth of Nations on December 26) we thought it would be timely to look at creating a building from a box in second life.

Thankfully the process is simple using AC3D to model and then export to second life. We had a similar script running from SketchUp but as they both only import boxes we assumed you were better off building direct (perhaps we were wrong as the movie below illustrates the potential):

The AC3D Second Life box export plugin works by generating a second life box prim for each object in the AC3D world. You can either make boxes in AC3D, or if you just want flat rectangles, you can simply make AC3D rectangles. You can use whatever shapes you like in AC3D e.g. spheres etc. but everything will appear in SL as boxes.

Take a look at AC3D for more details and Happy Boxing Day ๐Ÿ™‚

Architectural Visualisation: Richard Meier’s Church of 2000 in Rome

By Architectural Visualisation

Roberto sent us this exquisite visualisation of Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church, Rome. Roberto built the model in Autocad architecture (ex architectural desktop) with rendering and animation via 3d studio max 9 using the internal mental ray release 3.5.

It is a beautiful animation that makes a very timely post as its Christmas Day ๐Ÿ™‚

According to ever informative ArcSpace, the parish church ‘for the year 2000’ was conceived as a new center for a somewhat isolated housing quarter on the outskirts of Rome. The triangular site is doubly articulated to divide the sacred realm to the south, where the nave is located, from the secular precinct to the north, and to separate the pedestrian approach from the east from the parking lot to the west.

You can download a high resolution version of the movie via http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6DCSIAJ8

Architectural Visualisation: Richard Meier’s Church of 2000 in Rome

By Architectural Visualisation

Roberto sent us this exquisite visualisation of Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church, Rome. Roberto built the model in Autocad architecture (ex architectural desktop) with rendering and animation via 3d studio max 9 using the internal mental ray release 3.5.

It is a beautiful animation that makes a very timely post as its Christmas Day ๐Ÿ™‚

According to ever informative ArcSpace, the parish church ‘for the year 2000’ was conceived as a new center for a somewhat isolated housing quarter on the outskirts of Rome. The triangular site is doubly articulated to divide the sacred realm to the south, where the nave is located, from the secular precinct to the north, and to separate the pedestrian approach from the east from the parking lot to the west.

You can download a high resolution version of the movie via http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6DCSIAJ8

Happy Christmas

By Posts

A quick post to wish all the readers of digital urban a Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays ๐Ÿ™‚

Full blog posts will be back later this week, until then have a good one…

Andy

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