#Second life bento skeleton how to#
#Second life bento skeleton full#

The animated position takes all pivots and places them somewhere, regardless of the fact that they don't have the same coordinates and, as result, you'll get your shaped bones repositioned in their scaled form using the scale pivot location, causing an awkward stretch - compression of the mesh. BUT there is such a thing like scale, rotate and translate specific pivots, and that's where the issue explained above kicks in. That doesn't take the shape sliders into account, which work by scaling joints on one axis, and that gives the illusion of joints location change. Although it may seem that simple, animations use absolute position values for joints relative to the avatar root. When this is played it is broadcast to everyone else in the view. With a human shape the most simple undeformer is a T-pose that moves every bone (that is not already) to the standard T-Pose position. When it stops playing the bones are where they should be for a standard human avatar and the next animation played (in our AO for example) plays as it should and our avatar behaves in everyone's view as it shouldįor a non-standard avatar then we need an undeformer animation that will put the bones into the non-standard positions which work with our particular non-standard skeleton A anthro avatar with goat legs has a different animation to the others. A tinie avatar for example has a different undeformer animation than a standard human. The undeformer animation that we use in a script is the animation that will restore the skeleton to the defaults that work for our particular avatar. if I animate+translate an anim for breasts size 50 and a user with size 90 breasts uses the animation, her breasts will be shrunken down to size 50 sizes. It rarely is. Even changing the avatars shape can offset the location of joints. Playing an undeform script isn't always the solution.

#Second life bento skeleton how to#

Though there are limits and I can explain the pitfalls and work required and very shortly, those interested, will see the limitations in order to make an educated choice of how to proceed.There are infinite joint positions and rigs out there. I'm willing to help others through the process bringing their creations into Second Life and explain how it may be done without the use of additional purchased tools. However, I, too, have a product that automatically converts foreign animations, including from the brand that's mentioned here, to be fully compatible with Second Life, on the Marketplace

In order to make animations for Second Life using Blender you can pick my brain for the details necessary to get the job done.

You'll need to contact me in-world for a link. This includes Bento head and hands and it's freely available for anyone to use as they please. New hand bones - For finer control over hand animations. Tail bones - Include your tail in avatar animations. A summary of the new bones and attachment points: New limb bones - For wings, additional arms, or extra legs.

#Second life bento skeleton full#

I have a fully articulated, and accurate, skeletal representation of the armature used in Second Life, along with a fully skinned Bento character, using the classic mesh provided by LL. A full listing of the new bones and attachment points can be found in the Project Bento Skeleton Guide on the Second Life wiki.