#Avastar bento body how to#
#Avastar bento body skin#

You do not need Avastar for this to work and, frankly, you may wish to disable it before starting this tutorial, and start with a fresh mesh kit without Avastar enabled.Īfter this conversion process you can use the kit in Blender, without avastar, or I guess you can try converting it to Avastar if you want more pain.

We'll start in Blender and export the the entire scene as a collada file, using Blender's dae exporter. Many of you don't even know what I mean by 'bone scale' and it's a 'secret' kept from you, hidden from your eyes, and is the reason you have vertex vomit when you upload a skinned mesh to SL and when you try to use an exported dae file in another application from Avastar.

#Avastar bento body how to#

I'll show you how to use that to convert the kit with a proper rotation for Second Life(r) and bone scale. All of the weight data is saved perfectly, inside the resulting UVW map channels and vertex colors of that new object.

#Avastar bento body skin#

The tool for saving weight data in 3ds Max, from, a mesh, is under the SkinUtilities 'Extract skin data to mesh'. And finally, it was long overdue but i have rigged the lower body for fitted mesh, i was reluctant to touch fitted mesh for the longest time due to what a pain in the ass it was to make fitted mesh things, with no good way of previewing your changes without uploading the model every time and the Avastar tool being a confusing mess at the time. This page is a part of a transcript of the Lab Chat presentation held on Friday, May 6th, and featuring Ebbe Linden (Ebbe Altberg, CEO at Linden Lab), Oz Linden, the Director of Second Life Engineering, and Troy Linden, a Senior Producer of Second Life. In this video I'm using 3ds max but I'm sure there's a way to do the same thing in Maya and many others. But here's an option for you, in case you do have a kit that comes as Avastar only, and you want to use it in some other 3d application. For kits that are specifically made with Avastar originally then there's probably no problem but some are haphazardly converted.

Avastar is a tool and if you use it wrong it'll break you. I don't have a fix for that except to say 'don't do it'. I'm guessing that most of the problems are because they are attempting to convert that kit to Avastar. I see some people having problems with mesh body kits in Blender with Avastar. In a nutshell, the Second Life Avatar now has: Hands with 3 bones for each finger. This is the result from project Bento which started somewhere around may-2015 very silently and completely unnoticed from the public. In this video I'll convert a mesh body kit made specifically for Avastar so that it works in other applications. Project Bento: Since 17-december-2015 we got new bones for the Second Life Avatar.