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and rig the the second life avatar, as well as how to make it a true, functional, viable alternative to the painfully outdated system avatar.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 nice bento uptates
I loved the new update but it would be very, very wonderful if you had to lower your waist, your breasts have their perfect sizes, I think this does not have to be changed, as the head is now partially bent, I found it somewhat uncomfortable the fact of which to change some things to let deformed, in general I loved, thank you very much and I await more updates for waist!
Indefinite Beta
Forever without an official release and adjustable arm sizes and the like. Alas.
ehhh
rather disappointed, iv been in sl for over 7 years so im at this point every purchase i don't have a use for is harder and harder to swallow.
this is beta so maybe things will change but by then i'll likely have found what im looking for els ware .. it says fitted mesh but i can't make my arms any thicker, and when i make my shoulders even a little wider there is this weird gap from the side of my chest to where my arms start the mesh body is a little chubby from the side view when i rather be flat belly , the bento hands haven't been playing nice with any of my bento ao's.. the uvs are all mirrored , the toes looks super low poly , the whole body looks low poly and has hard edges . or at least harder edges then im used to, if this wasn't a beta id rate the stars lower.. but since this is advertised as a work in progress im giving it a 3.. if you didn't know 3 is "ok".. i really wanna give it a 2 but the maker gives lots of extras that while i had no use for are a nice touch for many people im sure and i respect that effort , i really dont like the slider placement in general on this body.. and the flat chest option is just bad, i demoed the fitted kemo and was able to move the nipples a bit to make the flat chest less saggy , but with this half fitted avatar 2.0 none of the breast sliders to anything .. really the description should list the sliders that do work, as its not meny and won't take too much typing out.. i get that most people seem to be fine with all these issued iv mentioned and that's great im happy for them.. but my lin matters too, a demo would have saved me some lin but i guess this sellers high sales means the few of us left disappointed just don't matter .. the creator is paid.. so who cares about me right? (i know i'm assuming things in this last bit, but why no demo? don't have a few hours to spare?, tho its shouldn't' take hours to make a demo form your source
gr8
i see friend with nice human av an ask where get it say it this1 so i by it i no by much unles i like
Not good.
First there seems to be a bug with eyes. As soon as I wear the avi both Av2.0 eyes or LL eyes sink. Skin texture limitations are severe due to poor UV mapping. LL avatar allows 3 times the quality to make it worst most of the texture space is used on the head wich is not customizable so not like many people is going to use it. Yet if eyes are fixed and with a decent skin mod it may work decently.
Wonderful Versatile Needs Better Alphas
I love this mesh so much, but i really wish it had better alphas. They are so basic that they're practically useless. I really want to use mine more, but every outfit i get for it only looks good if i'm standing perfectly upright. Please get better alphas for this body so I can wear what i want. Every other mesh body has this covered perfectly, so I know it's not an unreasonable request. Just fix it.