CobaltWords.com is a place to share and find Open Cobalt compatible models and .c3d static world templates for Open Cobalt. Help expand the online repository of Open Cobalt virtual world templates by submitting and sharing your world templates at CobaltWords.com.

We are starting to put together content packages for your Cobalt worlds. Once they are downloaded & un-zipped drag them into your content/meshes directory.








The first 3 are:
* The Best of Google 3D Warehouse -> Download here (see thumbnails here)

* Dinosaurs -> Download here (see thumbnails here)

* Air and Space -> Download here (see thumbnails here)

The Cobalt Ning Network was launched a few days ago at http://cobalt.ning.com . Feel free to join, and encourage your friends to join and contribute their talents to this new community!

Now bringing the power of Google Sketchup and the Google 3D warehouse as model & resource authoring options to the Cobalt virtual world platform !

Early benchmarking is showing .kmz & .zip (Collada) import success to be in the 90% range !

A big congratulation to Fong, John and the entire Cobalt team !

This video shows the Cobalt metaverse browser being tested on a 13-foot by 5-foot multi-touch visualization wall equipped with six high-definition projectors located at the Renaissance Computing Institute engagement center at Duke University. The input drivers are being developed by Dr. Xunlei Wu so that users can directly manipulate high-resolution data using both hands and multiple fingers for a more natural and intuitive data exploration experience. In the video, Dr. Wu is using both gesture and touch to navigate through, and rearrange content between, two Cobalt virtual worlds.

The Cobalt Project is slated to become the first open source virtual world platform to support Google Sketchup and Google 3D Warehouse models.

(Via Julian Lombardi's Blog)

The importer being worked on by Phua Khai Fong and Aik-Siong Koh is working nicely now. This is a comparison between a model loaded in SketchUp with the same model loaded into Cobalt. There are still some problems with texturing as they are working on getting material properties to import correctly. Its great to see the progress. This functionality will hopefully be incorporated into the next build. Thank you for your contribution!