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Fitted Mesh Concepts

2013/12/232013/12/23 by Nalates Urriah

For most of the people in Second Life™ the new Fitted Mesh simply means we will soon have mesh clothes that fit our shape. I think that is pretty much correct. There is also a group of us that are curious about how the new collision bones work and what that means for those of us making clothes. But, the changeover to Fitted Mesh Clothes is going to have a much larger impact. It is going to affect everyone.

Avatar Bones – Image 1

Designer Complication

Being able to use the collision bones to make clothes that adapt to each avatar’s shape is a big plus. But, building those clothes is going to be more complex. That means several things. One of course is new designers have more to learn. Another is customers are going to have to deal with finding out who knows how to make well made Fitted Mesh Clothes.

Second Life News Week 51

2013/12/16 by Nalates Urriah

Second Life is now in a no change window. So, there will be no server rollouts this week. Nor will the main SL Viewer update. We might still see an RC Viewer update or two. The current no change window ends January 1. That only leaves two days in the week for changes to rollout. … Read more

Second Life Avatar 2.0

2013/12/12 by Nalates Urriah

Today I found some additional information about what Linden Lab is doing with the avatar.

In the JIRA there is an item: STORM-1800 – The vertex weights of the default character mesh could be better. Recently Alexi Reggiane added a comment (09/Dec/13 8:41 PM):

LL is currently working on making on the avatar in their fitted mesh project. Are these [meaning STORM-1800] improvements being submitted along with changes in the collision bones in this project? Now would seem to be the optimum time to implement these changes. They have said once the fitted mesh project is complete it will be years before they would be willing to make changes to the avatar again.

Second Life News 2013-49 #3

2013/12/05 by Nalates Urriah

Next week (50) we will likely have a rollout to the main grid and another to the RC channels. Then we enter a no change window. We won’t see any new rollouts until probably January 7th. The packages in the tube right now are minor packages with only a small number of problem fixes. Viewers … Read more

Fitted Mesh Update 2013-49

2013/12/032013/12/03 by Nalates Urriah

Machinimatrix has released a new test version of AVASTAR: avastar-1-1-910_blender-2-64. You can get it from your personal Avastar download link.

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(Forum discussion of video – 2012)

This update adds 7 Collision Bones:

RIGHT_HANDLE
LEFT_HANDLE
BUTT
LOWER_BACK
UPPER_BACK
LEFT_PECK
RIGHT_PEC

Along with the bones a tool for copying weights from ‘deformation’ bones to ‘collision’ bones has been added. Instructions for using the tool can be found here: Avastar new testversion for “Fitted Mesh”. Gaia says this tool does not so much copy the information as rename the weight groups. This is something you can do with just Blender and something I was experimenting with.

Free Avastar Avatar File

2013/11/26 by Nalates Urriah

It took me a while to find this file. I just stumbled across it. Like previous versions of Avastar had a free ‘workbench’ file for non-Avastar users there is a similar file now for Fitted Mesh. See: Machinimatrix Fitted Mesh Survival Kit. This file looks complex if you haven’t seen an Avastar file before. Gaia … Read more