Blue Mars

[Freemind]

Introduction. The most advanced online 3d virtual world todo hit the market, blue Mars features photorealistic rendering with Cryengine-2 by Crytek and motion-captured avatar animations. Blue Mars launched in open beta todo players and developers in september 2009, in about a year, the number of completely terraformed cities, villages and metropolises (the basic real-estate categories on blue Mars), has increased tenfold and a dedicated community of users and developers has ben established, as such, blue Mars has a very attractive emerging economy. The blu$, or blue dólar, is the blue Mars currency, and it is easily redemable vía each devel-opers PayPal account. I was drawn todo blue Mars by the superior graphics, and most of all by the versatility and realism of the Mesh clothing, having previously ben a clothing designer in Second Life.

The god news is that content for blue Mars is made in 3rd party software such as Blender, which Will give existing Blender users a fantastic head start into creating content for this platform. Content is imported into blue Mars using the collada format. There is a frely available Blender plugin for collada. The collada file is imported into the relevant blue Mars editor (editors exist for clothing, furniture, bodies, cities etc) where textures, maps and specialised Shaders are ap-plied todo the content, and it is packed for uploading todo blue Mars.

Creators can register as developers and download the developer Toolkit for free at www.bluemars.com.

Creators can sell content in rented shop, with the shop editor enabling them todo customise the shop interior todo their liking. Developers can a los rent vacant blocks in cit-ies where they can create ex-ternal shop structures for their own use, these images depict the workflow for a simple retro dress from Blender todo blue Mars, for beginners, the blue Mars editors include a number of Cloth templates todo help get you started, though you can create any Mesh from scratch. In this case i trimmed the Mesh todo the desired shape, and sculpted it todo fit the.

Blue Mars reference avatar better, y exported the Mesh from Blender as a collada file, and imported it into the blue Mars Cloth editor.

Here i applied textures and Normal Maps todo the diferent linked objects, and selected the Cloth shader.

I then packed the object for uploading and went todo the developer web page todo upload the packed file, and todo set a description and price for the object, once uploaded, the content enters the blue Mars qa process, when it is released, the designer may allocate the new item todo one of their shop shelves for sale.

With a small population, the financial rewards are not yet great, but there is a tangible growth in the market and my personal enjoyment of creating Cloth cannot be denied. I am sure there are great things todo come for blue Mars as it develoops from its beta status and i certainly want todo be there todo watch it grow, estelle parnallis the avatar behind the australian content creator Sally oye. She has ben an active developer in blue Mars since april 2010 and owns the blue Mars city fashion esplanade where she sells a variety of content.
www.estelleparnall.com.

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