Seamless3d Chat



You can see which worlds are currently open and who is in them in your html browser by clicking worlds open
If this page shows any world links or shows the message that the Seamless3d server is running, you can join or open any online smls world for chat using your Seamless3d modeler as the client.
Simply click from the toolbar:


Enter your nickname and paste in the world url using Ctrl V to paste:



If your html browser does not show any worlds/visitors and does not show a message that the Seamless3d server is running, you can open the world by running the Seamless3d server from your computer.

Specifying the avatar

The avatarUrl field specifies the avatar. The avatar url must secify an avatar online in order for everyone else to be able to see it.
The avatar must be a smls file or a vrml file that only uses nodes that function inside seamless3d. Currently protos are not suported.
All of the avatars from this page are suitiable for seamless chat.

Seamless3d being 3d modelling software will of course allow you to custom design your own avatars. You can also use Blaxxun/Canal avatar studio to make avatars by importing them into seamless3d but avatar studio will not offer the same level of artistic freedom one can enjoy from Seamless3d.

Gestures

Gestures can be activated by typing g0, g1, g2 etc. or by using the keyword for the gesture in a sentence. To keep everything very simple the keyword for the gesture is defined by the Anim node's name (its DEF name).

The chat log file

The chat is logged and saved to:

My Documents\Seamless3d\Application Data For Seamless3d\chat.txt

Text to speech (TTS)

The TTS version of Seamless3d utilises Windows' built in SAPI5 TTS speech engine for chat. The OpenNetFile's voice field can be used to specify any SAPI5 voice however if the computer playing the voices does not have the voice installed a different voice will be automatically selected by that computer. When a voice is automatically selected the gender of the voice will be decided by the state of the  OpenNetFile's male field if the computer has both male and female voices.

Some of the popular voices that can be specified in the voice field are: You can install LH Michael & LH Michelle voices for free by installing Microsoft Reader and installing the Text-to-Speech Package for it.
You can download Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary voices by downloading and installing Microsoft's Speech SDK 5.1 (download SpeechSDK51.exe) Uninstalling the SDK leaves the voices installed. Microsoft Anne comes free with Windows Vista but it can also be installed onto XP by installing Microsoft Streets and Trips. Unfortunately this is a much bigger download (1173.4 MB) than the previous downloads and is not free, however it has a free trial and I am curious to know if the voices are left installed after the trial times out.

If you don't have the TTS version your voice and male fields will still be used by chatters who use the TTS version.

Worlds for smls chat

Any smls file that contains a WorldInfo node with the title field filled out can be used for Seamless3d chat. Because there is no gravity the land (or much of it) should be ay zero height.

Creating a chat link for a smls file

You can use this form for creating a chat link that can be pasted into your worldUrl field.

Sound alarm for when someone visits youu

Seamless3d can open windows media player to notify you have company. With this feature you can leave WMP on very loud so that you can be out in the garden while you wait for someone to join you in VR. A rock song with drums and bass is especially effective at long distances, To do this all you have to do is add a mp3 (or any media file WMP can play) to your alarmFile field. Currently you must add the whole path without any quotes as shown in the following example:


Running the Seamless3d server from your computer.

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