Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I like Slink and I’m playing with making clothes for my Slink Body, attached mesh and applier type clothes. So, I’ve been hoping this update would provide a bit better help for the applier clothes. Nope.
This kit is for those making mesh clothes.
I received an email letting me know:
For some of the stuff I make, I need to do a lower poly final version for use in Second Life. Rico Cilliers has a demo of doing retopology on YouTube. See Manual Retopology in Blender- Tips and Tricks.
I saw several tricks that are new to me.
For Second Life, I do a high poly first design. Not as dense as his dragon head. But, I don’t do a load of sculpting. But, for my starting work, I am concentrating on appearance and fit. Then I do a retopo for my SL high poly where I concentrate on reducing poly count. I use this for the first two and sometimes three SL LoD models. Then do another retopo for the 3rd or 4th SL LoD model. So, these tricks will be way handy for me.
The last time I published anything on Blender Retopo was 2012-13.
I think being able to do a good retopo is key to making great looking low ACI clothing.
Check this video…
This video is about how to use AvaStar and the Slink Developer Kit. If you notice the file name in the top menu of Blender you’ll notice is says: …\BentoVersionMarch2017\… My kit is labeled March 2016. So, to me this means an updated kit, which would be great as the current one is a bit of a PITA.
The video was posted to YouTube May 19, 2017, last Friday. In it Siddean Munro uses AvaStar2.0.30 and Blender 2.78. AFAIK, the latest versions are 2.0.45 and 2.78c… with 2.79 getting close to release.
Mesh Body Addicts is running their first survey of 2017. Please stop by and answer the questions. There are only 13… Luckily it isn’t Halloween. No fear.
See: Mesh Body & Head Survey 2017
I’ll have more to say about this video in a following article.
Daria lists 26 bodies in the survey when asking which you wear most often. 26! Plus, “other”… Amazing. In only a few months we have a load of competing brands and models.
Another photo contest! 1st prize L$1,000.00. Not bad.
The theme for the contest is: H2O with at least 1 item from the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop worn.
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1st Prize : 1000 L$ (lindens, to spend anywhere in SL)
2nd Prize: 500 L$ worth refund on your next purchase in the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop
3rd Prize : 20% refund on your next purchase in the Moustique Heartsdale Marketplace Shop
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[su_spoiler title=”When”] The contest run from Saturday 13th May until Sunday 04th June. [/su_spoiler]
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The judges will each pick their 3 favorites. In case of ex-aequo the number of faves will determine who wins. [/su_spoiler]
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The group’s pictures are here. Not necessarily safe for work… NSFW.
The idea of baking mesh avatars has been a subject coming up in the Content Creators UG over the last couple of weeks. The idea is to change how mesh avatars work. If you don’t understand how a Classic body layers work now, this may be confusing. I’ll try to sort it.
Starting back a couple of years, the Lindens added Server Side Appearance baking (SSA). The Classic avatar is made of three separate parts; head, upper body, and lower body. The parts allow layering of textures placed on the Classic body. Sort of like sticking decals one a top another.