Virtual Worlds Development

One of the most amazing aspects of Virtual Worlds is the variety of communities and interests you find there. MetaCrafters exists to create these communities, to flesh out the details of the dreams of our clients and to make them a sustainable reality.

Planned Communities

MetaCrafters staff are imaginative and focused when it comes to planning your community. From your welcome area to your guided tour, to community areas for visitors to gather and chat, to exciting exhibits and pristine product showplaces, MetaCrafters works with you to develop scenery that is balanced between functional and visually stunning.

Terrain & Landscaping Development

A realistic landscape sets the stage for your entire virtual environment. MetaCrafters designs .RAW files for Second Life simulator terrains to create plains and mountain ranges to make your simulation realistic. Our terrain texture library is an invaluable asset when terraforming, and we have a substantial library of plants, trees, and wildlife to populate the landscape of your simulator.

Architecture Design

MetaCrafters has conducted extensive field research on the wide variety of architectural styles and structures present in the real world, and extends this knowledge with an understanding that in the virtual world, there are no limits. We build to your tastes to create themed office spaces, showrooms, and residences using the techniques architects use in both ancient and modern architecture.

Interior Design

Simply putting together buildings does not make for a complete environment. MetaCrafters has an extensive background and understanding in the creation and placement of furnishings and accessories that make your simulation authentic and intricately detailed. Our texture artists create patterns such as leather and oak with subtleties to admire and brilliant colors to take in with awe.

Event Planning

A continued success in a virtual environment means regular hosting of themed events that attract a crowd and create a regular base of visitors and inspire those visitors to promote your location as a part of their social life. MetaCrafters works with you to develop an event schedule around your theme to ensure repeat visitors and word of mouth advertising for your location.

Audio / Video Hosting & Production

Good events require music, video, and other ambience elements to strengthen the authenticity of the environment and create a more immersive experience for the visitor. MetaCrafters has facilities to produce, host, schedule, and improvise media for your events, to bring the whole show together in an entertaining format that will keep visitors enthusiastic and returning for more.

Security Services & Technology

Unfortunately, for every person that wants to have a little fun, there is someone out there that finds value in detracting from the experience. MetaCrafters has technology tools and staff resources that can make your environment safe and enjoyable and reduce the potential for abusive personalities to have a negative impact on your environment.

Whether your product is for the real world or the virtual world, MetaCrafters can help you in every aspect of development of your product or service, from conception to market.

Rapid Prototyping

MetaCrafters specializes in rapid prototyping of products to allow quick entry into markets, which permits extended time for refinement of the product and subsequently increases potential market share.

Object Creation

MetaCrafters creates 3D models of nearly anything you can imagine for our clients. We are meticulous craftsman who take pride in a quality product.

Sculpted Prim Creation

MetaCrafters is experienced with tools necessary to create 'sculpted' primitives available in some Virtual Worlds. These objects are actually 3D meshes and can have a more specific shape, curved edges, or a more detailed appearance than standard primitive design.

Texture Design

The shape of your product is only one component of it's design. The textures, images wrapped around the object or shown on the side, have an enormous impact on it's visual appeal. MetaCrafters employs top quality texture artists who develop images specifically for your product models.

Animation & Pose Development

MetaCrafters is experienced with a variety of animation tools and can create static poses or full length character animation sequences to go along with your product.

Advertising Copy Production

MetaCrafters can provide assistance in creating compelling marketing text for advertising your product.

Vendor Solutions

Custom vending machines and product presentation on the sales floor of your in-world location can be a daunting project. MetaCrafters helps you to ease your way into a comfortable solution for your vendor needs, and can scale development to include online order tracking and database systems as your project requires.

Extended Product Support Development

Once your product reaches the market, you need to be able to contend with issues related to the product throughout it's life span. Let MetaCrafters set up a product information wiki, IRC support channel, or automated bot to answer questions related to your project and reduce your aftermarket costs significantly.

Modern Virtual Worlds represent complex technology and are formidable in the range of available featuresets. However, they are by no means complete, and many organizations find they desire the ability to be flexible in the functionality they provide. Some Virtual Worlds applications may require complete viewer modifications or special simulator alterations to fulfill core requirements of the project.

MetaCrafters is a full-service software solution provider for Virtual Worlds. Our involvement with the OpenSim community and several other similar technologies has brought us the experience and the codebase necessary to support large scale endeavors in this newly evolved technology platform.

OpenSim Solutions

A recent development in the arena of software options is a new platform known as OpenSim. OpenSim is compatible with Second Life protocols and as such, offers users a variety of alternatives to being a part of the larger social network. For instance, OpenSim hosts can have their own private virtual worlds.

MetaCrafters is an avid OpenSim supporter and offers services for OpenSim users, from website front ends for your virtual world, to OpenSim hosting and administration services, and development of custom modifications to the platform for your more imaginative and ambitious visions.

Second Life Viewer Modifications

Linden Lab has created an open-source license for the Second Life Viewer which permits modification of the application to the needs of many different organizations. MetaCrafters staff has the ability to make modifications to this viewer in order to support your specific virtual world needs.

Second Life Registration API Portal Development

Linden Lab created an api which allows customers to integrate Second Life registration into their website. This Registration API (RegAPI for short) allows community owners to present the registration on their site as a part of their own services, and to specify where new avatars who sign up through their site will arrive, creating an end to end custom user experience.

With a variety of website formats and custom tools, MetaCrafters has the facilities to create this integration for our customers.

In Virtual Worlds, your avatar is your persona. MetaCrafters is experienced in configuring avatars to a wide variety of tastes to ensure you are represented at your best.

Wardrobe Development & Fashion Consulting

Whether you are looking to dress for success or you require custom costuming for your in-world debut on stage, MetaCrafters can support you by taking you shopping or custom tailoring your clothes to fit the occasion.

Profile Enhancement

Want to appear more professional or intrigue others with your profile? MetaCrafters can create the graphics and text to show you in a positive light. Other benefits to a customized profile could increase the traffic to your business or better express the 'real' you.

Character Development

Not all avatars are run by real people in real-time. Sometimes there is the need for an automated presence... To manage a business while you're away, to perform in a machinima film, or just to goof around. At MetaCrafters, our favorite job is creating a personality for those 'characters' among us that aren't sitting in front of a computer, but are inside the machine itself.