Warning: This section contains more complicated topics which need a fairly amount of basic knowledge. Please make sure that you have a good understanding of Blender, Avastar and Secondlife before you continue from here.
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Fitted Mesh
Fitted Mesh The goal The working Model We will use a very simple skirt for this tutorial. (The video above uses a different mesh) This skirt is already weighted to the classic mBones and it contains a simple walk animation for scrubbing the timeline. Starting from Classic Mesh We use the very simple...
Importing Rigs
Importing Rigs Once in a while you want to import a rig from a Collada file. While this is not a big thing in general there are still a few pitfalls that could get you into trouble. Avastar has got the Rig Transfer Tool for this purpose. Although this tool is not perfect, it may […]...
The Hand Rig
Posing and Animating the Hands You have 2 possible options to pose and animate the Hands. You can use the FK Constrained Rig(default) or you can use the FK Simple Rig. Both Rigs have very different advantages: With the FK Constrained rig you can setup realistic hand poses in a very short time with j...
Fixing Asymmetry
Fixing Asymmetry TODO: Finish the Text documentation...
Avastar with Quads
Avastar with Quads The Quaded Avastar is an Addition for the creation of the Second Life Characters. The Quaded Avastar is made mostly out of Quads (polygons with 4 edges). The Mesh is fully compatible with the triangulated SL character. Motivation When working with animated characters then it is in...
Bind a Creature
Bind a Creature Note: You find the Rigging a Horse Video on Youtube. The Video was made with Avastar-1 but is still mostly valid. Step 1: Preparations This document is about binding a quadruped. We have chosen to use a spooky horse mesh (well, actually a skeleton) from neurocase at blendswap You can...
Fitted Physics
Fitted physics In this document we give a short introduction into how you can easily add physics to your Avatar using the Fitting Sliders. This is an extreme demo of what you can make with the physics. The demo was made by SeraphLinden a couple of years ago Intro Avatar physic is directly attached t...
The Eye Rig
The Eye Rig Rigging and animating eyes is well supported by the Avastar rig. this documents provides information about how to work with the Eye Rig. If you are an animator, then please move to the second part of this document Animate the Eyes further down on the page. Set up the Eye Rig for [&hellip...
Non Human Rigging
Rig a Creature Note: You find the Rigging a Horse video on youtube The Video was made with Avastar-1 but is still mostly valid. Step 1: Preparations The Model In this document we use a model of a horse made by OptimoMaximo Resident as guideline for setting up the Rig. This model will shortly become ...
Tinies and Giants
Tines&Giants This is a method to convert any character into a Giant or Tinie. Actually this is achieved by scaling the armature in object mode and then know the little secrets to succeed. Secret 1: Scale it in the right way The by far easiest method to get your Character right is by scaling the ...
