This week there was no Bento UG meeting. The Lindens are sequestered in their monthly meeting. No one showed up for an informal meeting. At least by 1:15… when I left.
You can see my videos of previous meetings here: Nalates YouTube Channel.
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Project Bento Update 2016 w39
I’ve had problems with the previous two meetings. Changing computers, recording software, and a couple of air-head mistakes resulted in some messes I wasn’t willing to upload or spend the time to fix. This week I got things together and have a recording.
I have sped up parts of the video. So, you won’t have to manually skip through as many pauses in the discussion. But, only by 50%. I slow down to normal speed when people talk.
Following is a summary with time marks. Summaries are always my take on what I heard. Put some salt with what I write.
Project Bento Update 2016 w37
No video this week. I recorded one. But, it is too much of a mess to try and clean up.
There is a new Bento Viewer out: Second Life Bento Viewer version 5.0.0.319688. This is the one that came out earlier this week. It is in RC stage now. If you login with your ‘old’ Project Viewer, it should automatically update. If you log into the ADITI grid and update you may get a second update when you log into the main grid, AGNI. It will be the same viewer version you already got but, the viewer is confused so it updates again. Some people have seen their viewers update twice.
Project Bento Advances to RC Status
We have been expecting it. Today at 12:30 PM SLT/PT the Lindens posted: Project Bento now in a Release Channel!
This is your opportunity to test out the new Bento avatars. Akeruka and Catwa have test Bento Heads out. Damien Fate has a Bento Wings Kit out.
Second Life: Bento Wings Kit
Everyone is excited by the new Bento heads. They are pretty neat. I am also excited about Bento Wings. I have a collection of prim/sculpty wings in my inventory. Some are way gorgeous. But, they are mostly just there, when worn. Project Bento is going to change that. We will be able to animate the Bento Wings in ways not before possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpGUKowqim8
Damien Fate has a Bento Wings Kit out. See: FATEplay – Animated Wings Template. This is one of those Full Perm with an agreement type things where all the mesh and animation stuff is done. You only need to supply textures.
These show some of what can be done with Bento Wings. I expect some really impressive wings to start appearing.
Second Life: Another Bento Head
Strawberry Singh recently revealed a test Bento Head made by Akeruka. Now the site Honey Junkie has an article showing a Catwa made Bento Head. See: Catwa Bento!
These heads are using the viewer’s shape panel to adjust the head’s shape. Daeberethwen Arbenlow has the thought that we will likely need multiple heads. I pretty much agree in the sense that we can’t deviate too much from the base look without getting distortions.
As you watch these reviews you’ll notice that some shape sliders don’t work. That is probably a metter of how the designers has weighted the head. I’ll point out the under bite slider not doing much is an on going source of problems. If you watch the Project Bento user group meetings you know teeth and lower lip overlaps have been an animation problem.