tools
thefollowing tools have been designed to make your life easier. for anyone that has sat in front of complicated software and asked themselves"why can't this stuff be easier,?" the following is for you. These are real time ease of use solutions for modeling, animating, avatar and asset creation. you get them all when you take a listing or ad in metacrasher. we are working to implement them into an easy work flow with the peer2peer spaces.
archipelis/metacrasher designer
under the radar and in stealth mode, metacrasher has partnered, and is working with, Archipelis Sarl of France, the makers of the revolutionary modeling tool Archepelis Designer to create exclusive ease of use tools. with a set of added features geared to the metaverse, designed by metacrasher, this powerful, yet insanely easy, tool becomes metacrasher designer(upgrade is free and availiable in july for all that sign up).
simply draw a shape, or trace an image and it is created in 3D and instantly textured, ready for use in your 3d webspaces and peer2peer spaces.
click the image at top and visit the gallery and tutorial section to see just what you can achieve with this amazing technology. we guarentee you will become addicted to this software.
when you sign up this is the first thing you get along with your 3d web space.
codename: lightwalker. animation software.
We have to keep this top secret for now until august, but we designed an animation system that will allow anyone to quickly animate without the need for complicated menus and long technical processes.
simple enough for children to use, but powerful enough for seasoned animation professionals, this software will also be made as a plugin for already existing high end animation systems. avatar animation made easy.
designed by metacrasher and coded by Archipelis SARL codename: lightwalker, is the extention of the same principals that make archipelis designer innovative in it's ease of use. and one last thing: if you've ever found yourself searching for a way to get the dreaded .bvh format from one place to another, search no more. stay tuned. we unveil this in august and it will be quite an event.
M3-metacrasher machinima maker
machinima is the art form of making films by means of using virtual environments, most commonly, games. at present machinima is beginning to get a bit of recognition and the movement is moving forward. one thing that held it back was that the filmmakers had little control over rudimentary film techniques such as lighting, camera lenses and many other ingredients that add to the visual aspect of making a film.
In the peer2peer environment, we have some very interesting ways to remedy these long standing issues.
also, in the spirit in which metacrasher does business(,collaboration, not competition) we are planning to make a subsection of this tool a stand alone plugin expansion pack for short fuse's upcoming release MOVIE-STORM machinima making software.
put it all together and make your own movies that look really, really good, without begging someone in Hollywood to let you tell your story. vive la machinima revolution!!!!. stay tuned.
other tools in the mix
seeing is believing so we won't go into all the features we are implementing in the peer2peer environments; however, one cool one we have to mention is UV texture transfer.
different virtual worlds use different ways of mapping a texture to an avatar. you have to do a lot of work to make your avatar look the same through out the metaverse. no more. with this tool your avatar texture is instantly changed to the format of the world you want to take it to. second life to WoW to metacrasher and back again.
above is one of the female base models that comes with the peer2peer. at right you see her uv texture type selection menu allowing you to export her realistic texture to a number of virtual world formats.