Yeah, you spend your days modeling food dispersal system for fish hatcheries, but your evening activities tell a different story. Let’s just say people should think twice before challenging you to 5-day Mario Kart Marathon.
Perhaps, as you’ve sat in silence waiting for the next installment of the Halo series to come out, you’ve wondered how you could bring 3D models from a 3D CAD program to a game program. No? Well, you should have wondered, because it’s possible. You’ll use a free program called 3DVia Studio to get it done.
Here’s the video which shows how you would go about doing it using a model from SolidWorks. But, it could be done with any 3D modeling program.
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I hate Facebook games. Hate. them. Too the point I feel like butchering a hog over someone’s keyboard as they get a Crop Whisperer ribbon on Farmville. Those feelings may change…. I doubt it, but this… is cool.
So, crack your virtual bottles against your virtual skulls. 3DVia is cranking out the goodness this week at the 2010 Games Developer’s Conference. Yes, it’s all fun and games, but just maybe a chance to add a lil’ gleam to snazzy up your product scene.
3DVia also has billions of reasons to make you excited about Mogaloos, how many you capture and how you feel about the color pink as the backdrop of the universe.


