Make avatar 2.0 Great again!
This is the long overdue fitted mesh update as well as bento face and hand rigging. You can now adjust the shape of your legs, belly and butt to make your shape more juicy. You can also adjust some of the face sliders but not all of them work. Due to the changes to the shape of the head, both old and new avatar 2.0 users that use custom shapes, will need to readjust the size, spacing and depth of your eyes for compatibility.
- About the project -
The project began with a vision of, or more like, a necessity for a better second life avatar model, one that LL failed to provide us with, or even fix any of the major flaws of the current model for years. Now that mesh is a thing on SL, we finally have the power to make that vision a reality. The main purpose of the Avatar 2.0 project was to research and develop the best possible ways to model and rig the the second life avatar, as well as how to make it a true, functional, viable alternative to the painfully outdated system avatar. So that i could apply the things i learned to my future mesh avatars. Over the time lots of new features got added and problems fixed and we are now at version 1.14
- Whats New in 1.14 -
Huge update, avatar 2.0 now partially supports fitted mesh (the whole lower body bellow the waist) as well as bento rigging for the face (not all bento features are supported due to the way the game treats custom joint positions)
Huge improvements to render weight from 32K to just 4.8K (the render weight randomly fluctuates between higher and lower numbers because the whole render weight system is garbage) as well as script optimizations.
There are now 2 versions of the body, A and B. Version A is the normal version witch is 4.8k render weight, and the experimental version B with 2k render weight witch will not work for people running the game on ghetto graphics settings.
A bunch of new features implemented such as normal/specular map support, head customization options and other neat things.
All the existing clothing have been updated to work with this new version, rez your update cards.
- About the HUDs -
The Body HUD lets you easily show and hide different body parts for use with different mesh clothing, as well as easily customize your avatar.
- Press the "Advanced" button under the figure in the main part of the HUD to switch it to Advanced mode, from here you can select what you want to hide in more detail.
- Press the gear icon button to go to the options menu to customize your avatar.
- To load a custom texture onto the body, go to the options menu of the HUD, click ADD and enter the UUID of your texture based on the given example, submit it than click load under the texture preview window.
The Head HUD lets you change your face expressions, customize the head and eyes. It also has a few extra skin customization options that the body HUD doesnt have, such as setting specular maps.
- The L and R buttons on the main part of the HUD and in the options let you select with eye you control/customize.
- Press the gear icon button to go to the options menu to customize your head and avatar.
- The options menu lets you choose different eyebrow, eyelash, skin, lip textures or load custom textures on each of the head components as well as select or load your own specular maps onto the whole avatar.
- To load a custom texture onto the head or body, go to the options menu of the HUD, click ADD and enter the UUID of your texture based on the given example, submit it and it will load automatically.
- Bonus items -
The bonus item box will now contain the older versions of the avatar as well as the UV maps and skin textures for people interested in modding the avatar.
The script commands for hiding body parts and controlling the face expressions are included as well.
For content creators that would like to create clothing for Avatar 2.0, visit this link to get the dummy mesh. https://utilizator404.wordpress.com/downloads/
Always make backups before editing, if you forgot to make a copy and screwed up, use the update card to get a new copy.
- Known bugs -
Invisible LL avatar eyelashes will sometimes show up, messing with your eyes, wear a different alpha if that happens.
If you are having any other problems, please check with the included trouble shooter notecard before contacting me or my associates.
btw the hair in the image is called Robyn and its from a store called "truth"
- costomizable mesh body
- HUD
- mesh clothes
- 4 breast sizes and 12 skin tones
- hair not included
very good but :)
It s an exellent avatar -especially for its price. Now thare are lots of stuff otm, so the clothes are not the problem. But if you look an avatar for a tiny female as i am - you better get the Kemono.
This is great but kemono its easier way.
I rlly want the refund so i can buy kemono.
Because there is very few items that made for avatar 2.0
Its better if u use kemono but its awesome too.
Well Utelizator didnt answer me yet OwO
The most efficient, moddable, and Natural-shaped body in SL
As a creator who makes and wears both male and female human stuff, I will say that this body is the most versatile and pleasant to work with out of every body in SL. It's also very efficient with vertices, so it doesn't slow down your graphics, which is something other bodies make me face-palm at.
To make it even more efficient, you can rez the body and un-link the chest sizes you do not use.
For those who want a MALE body that is not oversized, please try this body with the "Manime Torso" by Krankhaus. That is the best way to get a male anime avatar body.
Otherwise, this body by itself works fine for thinner androgynous males and femboys if you widen the shoulders(around 60-65) and narrow the hips(around 40-45), and get a male skin mod(I recommend male skins by Artificial Hallucination, especially the K-Pop skin with abs).
The only thing that this body has less of than the Kemono is tons of clothing.
Creators need to make more clothing. Luckily, there are still creators like Krankhaus and eventually myself continually making clothes for this 2.0 body, so you really do have many things to wear if you know how to look for it... which would be easier if Uti came up with a proper name for this body that is unique and easy to search for. >.>
new body!
love this avatar, with the tank top and short shorts, and maitreya compatable hair, it is beautiful
Very Impressed
I love this avatar body, and I got a quick response from the creator when I couldn't understand why I could not change breast sizes, the old note card included said there would be a box with 3 sizes included, but the breast sizes are actually in the hud once you select the gear wheel. Not all the body sliders working the normal avatar appearance mode but enough of them adjust to make this body sexy smexy. I would like see more done with the bottom of the legs, I wasn't able to get my slink high feet to attach without clipping, so I used some older sculpted feet with high heels and it looks good.
Versatile if you know how to work SL
As Utilizator has stated on their blog, the item does have a limited amount of clothing from both themselves and a very small amount of makers for the avatar, but, due to the fact the avatar's portions are somewhat in-line with the LL body, most mesh clothes work for it, especially since you can hide parts of the 2.0 body. There's minimal skins and such on the MP (especially since I'm using a furry avatar with it) but if you can figure out how to modify/make your own, it's an extremely good avatar. I personally do prefer this over the kemono simply because the proportions are more "human-like" but that's simply personal preference.
My only issue with it is that it's not fitmesh, so the body isn't adjustable at all. Buuut Utilizator has also addressed fitmesh on their blog and why they didn't make the kemono adaptable for it, so I'd assume the same could be applied for 2.0.
The avatar does limit your clothing, skin, and head options, but overall it's a very good avatar.
Only minor complaint I have, though, is that the neck doesn't extend with the LL neck. As most furs might know, using rigged hair with a furry head causes a gap between the neck and head on most mesh avatars, (because you must make the LL head bigger, and the bottom of the LL head includes a portion of the neck, I think. Might be wrong on why the issue is there though.) and it'd be cool if there was a fix for this, but this is also probably something that many people don't experience so I understand why this wouldn't be addressed.
Four stars, not a 5 simply because as I said, the avatar requires a good bit of modding and messing around with to make work. You're basically buying a base with this, but, a versatile base.