[Papervision3D] 3d avatars

[Pete Hobson]

> My question is; is it possible to load a basic 3d model (a avatar  
> human model), and add custom 3d models to that, lets say a shirt or  
> a haircut?
yes, you can now add 'children' to a model (like a displaylist in AS3)
> And I’m guessing that it could be possible to load the textures at  
> runtime from a configuration file/web service?
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Yes, a texture can be any displayObject, such as a bitmap or movieclip
> Does it mather what formats the models are in? collada, ase, 3ds, etc?
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Collada is the most supported format in paper so far.
> Would it be feasable to have these low polygon avatars in a high  
> traffic website? 60-80.000 unique visitors per day.
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The current demo file of the car is 80k for the model file and 28k  
for the body texture, bizarrely the wheel texture is 68k.  You would  
need to do the maths for your own server as to what is possible, but  
I believe file sizes are certainly way smaller than serving a video  
or audio
> Would it be possible to have custom animations, and load and apply  
> them at runtime for different avatar models?
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At present there is no native support for animations, people have  
managed to implement it themselves fairly simply, and support for  
collada based animation s being discussed on the list right now.   
Hope thats useful, good luck.

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