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Second Life: Animation Tool – Free

2016/08/31 by Nalates Urriah

Tapple Gao is providing a free tool for those doing movement animations, e.g., walking. You’ll find a copy in the marketplace here: Walking and Turning Test Treadmill. It is free.

The idea for the tool was to provide a way to eliminate skate from animations you create. With some walking and running animations my avatar appears to skate across the floor/ground.

With this tool you can play the animation, as opposed to wearing and having to ‘move’ to play it, stand in place, start the treadmill, and see if your feet and the treadmill are in sync. If not you’ll need to adjust the time scale of your animation.

Handy.

I’m into math. So, I think it would be nice to have a control that would let me speed up or slow down the treadmill by a known percentage. While there aren’t any buttons for that. Apparently I could do that via the chat interface.

By knowing how much to speed up or slow down my animation I would be able to eliminate a lot of trial and error testing.

Project Bento Update w22

2016/06/01 by Nalates Urriah

They surprised me! Project Bento, server side, arrived at the main grid Tuesday. Torley Linden has posted about the Lab enabling the project on the main grid. See: Project Bento Testing Is Now Live on the Main Grid!

This is a testing release. You will need the Project Bento Viewer to upload animations and meshes, and to view them without distortion. Bento mesh weighted to the new bones looks horribly distorted in non-Bento viewers. Expect to see lots of questions in the forum about how to fix the problem.

Just send them to the Linden announcement… or here.

Project Bento Video

2016/02/08 by Nalates Urriah

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…

Bento Casting Call Reminder

2016/01/19 by Nalates Urriah

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 20^th. Provide him as much information about your creation for Project Bento as possible.

Second Life: Project Bento Update Week 2

2016/01/15 by Nalates Urriah

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:

Bento Meeting W#1

2016/01/08 by Nalates Urriah

The first meeting of Second Life’s™ Project Bento User Group was held today. There was a good turnout, about 33 residents and 3 or 4 Lindens. We got new information about the Bento Avatar and lots of questions were answered.

First Bento UG Meeting 1/7/16

The meeting is Lindens in voice and residents mixing text and voice. The plan is to have the meeting each Thursday at 1 PM SLT. But, scheduling conflicts will push that around so all are encouraged to see the Bento UG page to confirm the meeting time.