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and rig the the second life avatar, as well as how to make it a true, functional, viable alternative to the painfully outdated system avatar.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
I like it. :/
I think it is pretty cute. Still has some work to be done of course, but that is kind of what 'beta' means. I look forward to seeing this product through.
P.S. : A hud with eye color changer and maybe face expressions would be nice. Not a sculpter so I am not sure how difficult this'd be, but just an idea. :D
Very nice
It is a very nice mesh avatar. The proportions are decent and the clothing it comes with fits very nice. After many hours with a specific issue, I do not believe I will be purchasing other mesh avatars for a while from now on. The creator was very polite and attempted to correct the issue twice, but things do come up and I do understand that people can get busy. I will wait until a few more updates of this avatar before spending any more money on clothing I am assured will fit.
Fantastic AV Mesh
This is really quite a fantastic mesh, I have to say.
If this were a Second Life standard, I think everyone would be happy. :) Sadly, there wouldn't be much backward compatibility, but that's what evolution is about-- moving forward, instead of looking back.
Love it.
I was kind of debating since this is my first mesh avatar, but I am glad I took a chance and got this. You can easily edit your skin tone, various clothing parts, and some key features of the shape. The creator even includes uv maps for the clothing top and skin which allows even more customization. Only reason I gave it 4 stars is because I wish it also included was the uv map for the bottoms. The eyes are static which is good for photos, not very lifelike though. Easy fix for this is sunglasses. Dancing animations look 100% better in this avatar since the mesh moves so much more fluid then the LL avatars. Overall its well worth the price and one of the best female meshes out there. Very happy I found it. <3
Love it!
I love this AV! Don't change a thing! Would be great to see more outfits coming soon.
One of teh Best but has issue
The Mesh is great, but has some issues, one the breast nipples are not formed, the hips are not wide enough like a real womans, the body is very teen like ro child like when looked at nude which is bad. The other issue is while having the Mesh on in Phoenix your viewer crashes randomly when in edit mode, not editing the mesh, but anything you edit on your avatar and outside on the land. Any Prim does this. I have tested this several times, and when the mesh is off I do not crash when editing, only when it is on. I found a better mesh as well than this body which looks lovely compared. This at one time I thought was the best mesh avatar untill I seen others. But this is one of the best regardless of the few issues I mentioned. Worth the 300L, and keep a look out for the other one in marketplace thats 1000L its the same as this one, just an anime head and outfit custom made for this avatar, and comes with more skin tones as well.