Second Life and Virtual Worlds
KatsBits.com has a written tutorial on baking normal maps from mesh geometry in Blender 2.74. See: Bake Normal Maps From Meshes. It is a long tutorial and explains how to avoid some of the common mistakes. Have you seen any good tutorials lately? Are you looking for a good tutorial on something?
Gaia Clary is starting the AVA Mesh Project. The goal is stated as: We want to provide a Standard Mesh alternative for the SL Avatar that can be used as starter kit for any mesh project that creators can think of. We plan to make Avastar capable to handle this Standard Mesh as seamless as … Read more
With the new mesh bodies and body parts merchants are releasing more and more Development Kits. If you are an AvaStar user you have probably tried to use one or more of those kits with AvaStar. Some work, some don’t. Now Gaia Clary of Machinimatrix, the source of AvaStar, is building a compatibility chart/list. If … Read more
Gaia Clary has a new version of AvaStar out. How binding works has changed. Seems lots of people didn’t get that an item had to be rotated and scaled before attempting to bind the item to the armature. Release Notes So, Gaia has adapted AvaStar to provide more help. There are 5 new videos out. AvaStar … Read more
Many of us in Second Life™ use Blender as our creative tool. Few of us have taken a college course on using Blender, so Blender tutorials are popular. But, it takes a bit of time for the tutorials to catch up with Blender’s latest updates. So, I was happy to come across a … Read more
There is a new version of AvaStar coming that I think makes creating fitted mesh clothes for Second Life much easier. Check out this video: