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and rig the the second life avatar, as well as how to make it a true, functional, viable alternative to the painfully outdated system avatar.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
absolute awesome!
Thanks! i totaly love that meshbody! its great and so many other meshbodyparts of my other avatars just fit perfect! also the alpha hud is totaly cool if you like furry avatars.
Superb new look for 300L !
As a total technophobe this is fab for me. These things are scary. For others like me maybe read on! This is the way it is- not why it is.
The whole body is an attachment with a full body alpha underneath so all the old non mesh clothes wont show.
The body (skin) and all the clothes provided all expand and contract to fit when you change yr shape! - no idea why. So I retained my shape. -unlike the normal mesh clothes where one's shape has to fit the clothes.
You can keep your own eyes.
To make other (not from UTILIZATOR) mesh clothes work you use the HUD provided that makes the new "alpha" - invisible skin mask.
The Hud:
.I saved the original and stretched a copy HUD nice and big to see it better. It's got about 20 pairs of left and right sections of body you can hide like the feet,ankles,...thigh tops...neck etc. Maybe it's been thought out to work for lots of mesh clothes cos the while there is a bra type section, the "bikini bottoms" section is not a panties shape. The HUD also does 12 skin tones from porcelain to very dark tan
The face then doesn't change with edit shape but the head/face size can be changed along with the basic shape and the mesh body attachment (yr skin) stretches to fit -per above. ...So you are stuck with a moody teenager look
Eyes - they are looking through the body attachment eye holes hence per the product page set their eye spacing and depth values and then adjust yr eye size to the best look for yr pupils etc The head size doesn't seem to change the eye position.
The bits and pieces look good enough when naked or no knickers! It's not all a censored blur.
This outfit - you can wear one stocking only if you like (2 attachments L+R). But only both gloves.
Firestorm and Singularity viewers used. to rez the clothes properly needs a minimum graphics setting of prefs/graphics/basic shaders/hardware skimming - boxes ticked.
For 300L is a great new look - I feel very...meshy !
I intend to buy more ULITIZATOR clothes
This avatar is perfect!
I love it and have no intention of changing :')
I realize of course it's still in beta, but I would love to be able to change the face and such in future updates. I hope you will consider the possibility, if it is even a possibility to begin with!
Please continue to make amazing avatars, Mode!!
I LOVE this avatar :)
I just purchased this tonight! I absolutely love it already. I cant wait to see the new things planned for it. The movements are so much smoother with this Avatar. The dances look fantastic so far. I cant wait until she smiles :) I highly recommend this. Excellent work!!! An Absolute steal at the price. I have not tried other clothes yet, but somehow I think some will work. The outfit supplied is super cute. Keep up the good work!
Aún experimentando
Aún estoy experimentando y conociendo el AVI
Lo conseguí para verlo, comprobarlo y experimentar, pensando en poder modificarlo hasta lograr tener una apariencia de hombre
No entro muy seguido a SL, y cuando lo hago entro para divertirme con mis amigos, así que aún no he tenido el tiempo libre suficiente para hacerle lo que necesito, pronto lo haré y daré mis opiniones