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and rig the the second life avatar, as well as how to make it a true, functional, viable alternative to the painfully outdated system avatar.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
Eh.
I am extremely new to mesh, and overall this wasn't bad. But personally I don't like the overly anime style of the face/ character. I prefer something more realistic, whether it is mesh or not. But for anyone looking for an anime school girl looking avatar, this is for you.
There's a reason there's no demo
Aweful. Doesn't work with even your shape and skin, only alpha layer erases entire body so you are forced to go buy mesh head, mesh hands, mesh feet. I guess there's one born every minute. I'm sticking to normal non-mesh non-rip offs.
ZOMG
I have thousands upon thousands of L$ invested in Eve, Belleza, Slink Physique, etc. I've only discovered Avatar 2.0 a week ago or so. I thought it inexpensive enough to just give it a go.
I. LOVE. THIS.
Sure: it's nowhere near as flexible as the outrageously-pricy other stuff; the alphas need to be reworked to hide smaller sections (even in the advanced mode) and *most* body sliders do not affect anything at all So with this shape it's almost all or nothing. But dammit, I love this one.
Here's the thing: If you want to try out a mesh body (with or without the head) this one is priced right. And in addition almost all the add-ons are very inexpensive; how can you not?
Because a review should be helpful here are some other things: The built-in skins are pretty good. Not remarkable and you'll have to settle for the shades that are there, but the quality of the skin is pretty good.
Clothing: Obviously the stuff designed for Avatar 2.0 work well, so what about all that mesh stuff available for everything else? I have found that 7 out of 10 of my existing mesh outfits I got for my other mesh bodies are workable. Most come with multiple versions for Slink, Maitreya and so on along with multiple "standard sizes". I have found that many of the Maitreya, "Small" or "XS" versions work pretty well; though you may still have to hide parts with alpha HUD depending on your AO.
As for shopping: always try the demo (no demo: don't buy it). I find at least half (5/10) work well, Just stay away from anything that uses appliers (which is actually a goal for me anyway). Use body sliders to adjust breast/butt size to fit a mesh outfit well (they adjust to those sliders.)
So it is all very inexpensive to get your wardrobe going well, and still have enough flexibility to shop the marketplace proper.
Caveats: you cannot adjust the breast (it comes with choice of sizes, though), butt, belly, body fat sizes and stuff; you can adjust the height, thickness and stuff.
I think it is fantastic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Unlike some of the comments right below me I really like it and strongly recommend this to anyone
the updates are much further than the description the clothes is fully modifiable and so are all the parts of the body head & everything this is a big plus & big point --> you can do as you are pleased just make a few copies of everything
We are talking here full mesh avatar with very detailed alpha that can be used to wear any standard mesh outfit the 4 sizes of breast can satisfy any preference with head and all = 500 L LOL
the support is also great and no IM unanswered
in the scale of 1 to 5 I'll give you 10 starts & allot of kisses ♡＼(￣▽￣)／♡
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ thank you ＼(＾∀＾)メ(＾∀＾)ノ
Acceptable
Nicely looking avatar, the main drawback is in the HUD with very limited set of options for alpha areas, you can pretty much hide only feet, arms, shoulder, legs or stomach, which makes it impossible for some mesh clothes to wear.
But generally nicely looking avi and really cheap.
Limited
I give it two stars while the body itself is nice its feet are hardly an improvement over the basic LL and would much more prefer the detail in slink over them. The other bad part about this body is that the customization of it is so abysmal. I would say 75% of shape sliders actually don't matter in the slightest. If this is going to replace the original LL body then it needs the same if not more functionality than the current model. Clothes for this avatar is a nightmare. Every piece I've bought has required tweaking from a few minutes to hours. The alpha joints sometimes are nice but all too often do they go beyond what is required and you end up having excess alpha gaps. Loading shapes with this body is pointless since it mainly just adjusts the height while tweaking a few minor things. The face on this Avatar can't actually be adjusted. It's a what you see is what you get sort of product right now. I don't see it replacing the original LL bodies with a M3 head attached just yet until more options are added.