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Extract Your WoW or Second Life Avatar with OGLE

(PC: MMORPG) | Posted by Wildefire @ Wednesday - January 25, 2006 - 22:35 -
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Game designer Raph Koster just posted about OGLE, a tool that extracts 3D models from OpenGL applications to use for your own purposes. The developer of the software has successfully used it to extract and make real 3D figurines of his World of Warcraft and Second Life characters using a 3D printer.
The most intriguing results are of course from bringing the virtual stuff into meatspace (MMO companies have talked forever about making custom action figures of cherished characters, and now it looks like that business opportunity window might be closing…). There are so many applications there the head spins.

But I suspect the other use will be more likely: people using models to learn from and to repurpose.

So much for limiting your range of avatar poses, for example — now anyone with this software and 3d modeling software can build any scene they like. (They usually like pr0n). And what goofy game remixes will we get — freeware shooters where you shoot the Horde?
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