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<\/image> Rig a Creature<\/h1>\n

Note: You find the Rigging a Horse<\/a> video on youtube <\/span><\/p>\n

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About this Document...<\/h3>
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Content:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Create<\/strong> a Quadruped Rig (for a Horse)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0The Video:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Editing the Avastar Skeleton into a Quadruped Skeleton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What does Avastar provide?<\/h3>\n
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Avastar basically supports the creation of animatable Models (Avatars&attachments) and the creation of animations. Therefore the tool adds various functions and user interface elements<\/span> to Blender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The full functionality of Avastar can be a bit overwhelming on first sight. You should be prepared to spend some time and patience to get it all working nicely for your projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What does this Document provide?<\/h3>\n
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This document is a quick start into Armature Editing. In this section you will learn how to prepare Avastar<\/em><\/span> for your work on non human meshes. We use a Horse as the modelling example.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However this article only scratches the surface of Avastar’s feature set, so there is a lot more to detect and we invite you to make your own experiences as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We expect that you have basic knowledge about Blender.<\/div><\/div> <\/strong><\/h2>\n

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<\/i> Step 1: Prepare the scene<\/h2>\n

The Model<\/h3>\n
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In this document we use a model of a horse made by the SL resident OptimoMaximo Resident<\/em> as guideline for setting up the Rig. You may find similar models for example in the blendswap horse collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the end of this document we will have a Rig that we then can use for binding almost any quadruped with only small adjustments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tip: In the next document about binding a quadruped we have chosen to use a spooky horse mesh (well, actually a skeleton) from neurocase at blendswap<\/a>\u00a0 You can decide to use it right away or just follow this document by using any other quadruped you like. There shouldn’t be much variation in how to proceed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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More about the creator at www.dazpetty.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Adding an Avastar Skeleton to the scene<\/h3>\n
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So we expect you already have the mesh model in the scene and we do not need any Avatar meshes for our model. And although the Bento Skeleton already supports quadrupeds nicely, we have chosen to not use the Bento hinds for the begin:<\/p>\n

Add -> Avastar -> Skeleton (for regular Avatar), or …
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We will make a regular Horse Avatar, so we choose the Skeleton option.<\/p>\n

Note<\/span><\/strong>: If you later (in Secondlife) wear the Horse Avatar and you want to preserve the exact same shape as what you see in Blender then you also must wear the exact same shape in SL. So you must know this:<\/p>\n

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The Skeleton is created from the Secondlife female character using the Default Shape. So you also must remember later in Secondlife\u00a0 to wear the Default Shape in Secondlife. You get that when creating a new shape.<\/div><\/div>\n

Of course you can decide to use any other shape in Blender, just need to use the same Shape also in Secondlife then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To see the exact same Skeleton as in the image above, you need to make sure that the Following Bone subsets are set to visible in the Rig Display:<\/p>\n