AvaStar Update 2014-10

 Gaia has an article out explaining the basic differences between AvaStar 1.0 and the coming 1.1 version. We can get test and RC versions of AvaStar from our personal download pages at Machinimatrix. So, knowing the differences is helpful. See: Which Avastar to use ? The article tells us there is a bug in the … Read more

AvaStar 1-1-RC2-983 Released

Gaia Clary has released an updated candidate. You can download it from your AvaStar download page. Try this out and test it for problems. If all is well this could be the next release. In a few days Gaia will make a revised tutorial using the new release and probably Blender 2.7.

Blender AvaStar 2014-8 #2

Gaia posted a comment yesterday letting me know that AvaStar 979 was repaired. I got a new copy this morning. Gaia did not change the file name as the problem was just a compilation problem. This file installs as expected. I won’t get to test anything else until later today or this weekend.

Blender Fitted Mesh #SecondLife Alert

I see that Gaia has posted in the SL Forum that a new nightly build of Blender is out. This is important as the 2/19 builds still lacked the Collada fix needed for Fitted Mesh export. I covered that problem yesterday. Get the new builds from these two locations: Daily Builds: http://builder.blender.org/download/ Blender 2.70 testbuilds: http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.70/ I’ve … Read more

Avastar Updates & News

Another test version of Avastar is out: avastar-1-1-978_blender-2-65. There was a problem with the hands not animating. That has been fixed in this version and probably other things. [2014/02/18 12:25]  Gaia Clary: hands work again in: avastar-1-1-978_blender-2-65. Gaia Clary was talking in Blender Avastar group about not having enough time to answer questions and get … Read more