I couldn’t be at last Thursday’s Project Bento meeting in Second Life’s ADITI region… work.
However, Inara has a great write up about about the last meeting and where the Project is. See: Project Bento User Group update 8 with audio.
I couldn’t be at last Thursday’s Project Bento meeting in Second Life’s ADITI region… work.
However, Inara has a great write up about about the last meeting and where the Project is. See: Project Bento User Group update 8 with audio.
I could make this week’s meeting. But, Inara has an audio recording of the meeting. See: Project Bento User Group update 7 with audio.
The set of bones has changed to meet feedback from SL users. It isn’t all they want, but it is what can be done now.
There was a neck-bone thing that users were on about. The problem is that adding bones within the chain of existing bones breaks legacy compatibility. An alternate option was figured out and added. Continue readingThis is my recording of the most recent Bento User Group meeting, 2/18.
I don’t plan to provide a transcript…
Cathy Foil sent me a note explaining the Project Bento updates to MayaStar. I copied, modified, and paraphrased what she sent.
The MayaStar 4.5, I’ll call it BETA version, addition runs on PC and Mac. It works with Maya 8.0 through 2016. While most of MayaStar works with Maya LT, but Maya LT is lacking some abilities and that limits what can be done with MayaStar. Cathy asks you contact her for more information if you are working with Maya LT. Continue reading
Gaia Clary has been putting more of the Machinimatrix/AvaStar videos on Vimeo™. There are good reasons for doing that. Vimeo offers better monetization and distribution control. Unfortunately Vimeo has to compete with YouTube.
As best I can tell, not that many of the Second Life™ community use Vimeo. If I search on ‘secondlife’ at Vimeo, I find 6,373 videos. Doing the same at YouTube I get 572,000 hits or about 90 times more videos.* Continue reading
This got released Friday (2/5) and I didn’t catch it until today. The post is here: Drax World Makers Episode 36: Project Bento.
There was a preview released Wednesday (2/3). I think after watching the two the plan changed at some point.
Both are neat videos in their own right…
January 19 at noon (SLT) is the Project Bento filming event casting call. It will be on Bento Island, ADITI (Preview Grid).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62hWZ4-dHeE
Contact Draxtor Dupress as filming will start on the 20th. Provide him as much information about your creation for Project Bento as possible.
Inara has an update from the last meeting that looks complete and has audio from the meeting. See: Project Bento User Group update 2 with audio. She has broken the audio clips up by topic, which is handy.
For those short on time, the meat from the meeting: Continue reading