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How to Go From 3D Model to Online Game With 3DVia Studio

06 Sep, 2010 by Josh Mings in RESOURCES
3D Human CAD Models

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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3DVia Billions and 3DVia Studio. The Mafia will Die. The Farm will Burn. You will 3D Print from Facebook.

09 Aug, 2010 by Josh Mings in NEWS, ROCKIN'

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.

Last week 3DVia made the announcement that the 3D Social gaming blitzkrieg that is Billions is now available to play on Facebook. Oh great. Another Facebook game right? Well, we covered the announcement last March. If you saw the images then, ya gotta admit, this would be a different game, nay, a different experience for web-based gaming.

The game is indeed interesting… and fun. Wonder what it’s like and why it could change gaming? What about 3D design and how we interact in a virtual environment? Take a look.
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3DVia Gets You Virtual. Launches 3DVia Studio and 3DVia Scenes.

11 Mar, 2010 by Josh Mings in NEWS

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.

Along with their new Social Game Billions, they’ve just made the magic behind the creation of it available to you… absolutely free. 3DVia Studio is available for download and 3DVia Scenes is the backdoor to getting your ideas out the virtual door. More after the snap!

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3DVia Has Billions… of Reasons to Excite You About Online Social Gaming

09 Mar, 2010 by Josh Mings in NEWS, ROCKIN'

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.

This week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2010) in San Francisco, 3DVia is showing off 6 new games developed with 3DVia products. Among those is the first game built using 3DVIA Studio, an online social game, called Billions, that I can tell you right now is the very reason I’ll be staying up all night gorging myself with Twizzlers and Coke in front of the computer screen.

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