Animation

Project Bento Update Week 12

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I made it to the Bento meeting. This was pretty much just a status update meeting. We did get word that a new version of the Project Bento Viewer will likely be out next week (13).

I still have trouble logging into ADITI. It takes 5+ minutes for me to get logged in. Others at the meeting tell me they too have the problem when they log into Last Location. So, I’ll be trying to log directly into the region by name. I’m told that works better.

The result is I missed the first 10 minutes or so of the meeting. Then the first 5 minutes or so of audio is missing. Because the viewer didn’t connect correctly. 🙁

Second Life: Custom Mesh Head Animation

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Project Bento is moving ahead. The AvaStar people are working on building tools to help people animate the new avatar. You can see a video of where they are now. YOU HAVE TO CLICK…

This isn’t something we will have access to this week or next. We may not see the final release of Project Bento for some weeks and possibly months.

We may have the AvaStar tools soon. Building the animation tool is a simpler task than building a player that works with the new skeleton and the legacy version animations.

Project Bento Update Week 9

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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.

Lifted [We are more than light]
Lifted [We are more than light]
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. 

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MayaStar Update Week 06

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Cathy Foil sent me a note explaining the Project Bento updates to MayaStar. I copied, modified, and paraphrased what she sent.

Brunella
Brunella

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. 

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