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ItвЂ™s like playing with Legos, except youвЂ™re making things that will move mesh. If youвЂ™ve never done this before, I recommend taking some animation courses and giving it a try. I sorted the xml data until I could make sense of it. ItвЂ™s constantly updated, or will be until IвЂ™m happy with this project.

ods, which I work on at the RuthAndRoth GitHub repository under Reference > Ada Radius. So I jammed the xml text into a spreadsheet, opensim_armatures. Spreadsheets are one way I make sense of information. Most of us with this canвЂ™t even tell left from right.

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Full disclosure: I have directional dyslexia, very common in 3D artists. But IвЂ™m a retired CPA, opera singer, actor until I got too disabled to perform. One way to view the information is in NotePad++. The viewer looks at it, along with the collada rigged mesh upload data вЂ“ the dae files вЂ“ and other programming voudou, to calculate our avatars inworld. Some of them are out at the RuthAndRoth OSGrid sim.ДЄvatar_skeleton.xml is an interesting little file found in every viewer. I also made a bunch of simple prim models while I was figuring it out.

Blobby, another test model for collision bones.

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Side view on a default female with blank skin.вЂњShow BonesвЂќ on my avatar, lots of Bento face bones.The display setting is in the viewer DeveloperвЂ™s menu, in most viewers, under вЂњAvatarвЂќ or вЂњCharacterвЂќ. This is the way the mBones of the armature look inworld now вЂ“ the green glowy lines. 159 bones now, in this teen aged armature.

Armature bones for face, fingers, wings, tail and animal hind legs. In 2014 or so, artists began to make вЂњfittedвЂќ mesh we could rig to the collision bones, to make attached clothing or an attached mesh body move with the Appearance sliders. Each collision bone is clamped to its mBone parent, so that a vertex weighted with PELVIS, (the collision bones are in CAPS), will move with its clamped parent, mPelvis.ДЄ few years later we got a few more bones for feet and skull. The Second Life armature, about fifteen years ago, consisted of 21 movement bones вЂ“ вЂњmBonesвЂќ plus 26 collision bones, which at that time, besides keeping avatars from walking through each other, were used in the inworld Appearance sliders, to make the default avatar fatter or thinner, more muscular, and the ever-popular big boobs and butt. I think this information should have been made more public years ago. Along the way I floundered like a beached jellyfish and ran around the mulberry bush like a hound chasing imaginary rabbits.

#Avastar bento animation how to

It took a while for me to figure out how to find the information I needed. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Copyright В©2003-2020 Linden Research, Inc. What we have to work with are three Second Life sources: avatar_skeleton.xml, male_2016_08_05.dae,, and. Then IвЂ™ll use what I learn to do the Default Bento Female for the next Ruth release. What I want is a replica of the Default Bento Male in Blender 2.8x, so I can use it to rig the next release of Roth, and get it exported from Blender 2.8x and into an opensimulator grid without tears.

Now that I rather painfully figured out how collision bones export from Blender so that they almost work inworld, itвЂ™s time to tackle the mBones.