![[RUF] Sparkle Pony Avatar BETA](https://slm-assets.secondlife.com/assets/26733965/lightbox/RainbowPon.jpg?1593311943)
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This is a full bento cartoon pony avatar that is a collaboration between RUF and GlitterGarbage. It is fitted, though some SL bones don't handle correctly on quads. There are 4 included shapes to show the capabilities of the fitmesh handling in this avatar.
The mesh included is: a body with marking layer, mare and stallion heads with marking layers, 2 unrigged manes, 2 rigged tails, an unrigged horn, and both rigged and non rigged (closed) wings.
You will also receive an AO with expression handling, a color change/alpha HUD with simple/advanced controls and booty mark applier, and complete modder's resources for this avatar (UVs, textures, mesh dummy, appliers)
Do you have non rigged pony items you want to use on this avatar? Well, give it a little turn and a slight resizing and it will fit. Use the advanced alpha features to make sure the item fits perfectly!
And now, for a limited time, you can get this avatar at a low price while it is in BETA. Some things remain incomplete (mostly HUD beautifying and more animations) and will be fixed for a full release. You may also send me information on bugs, as well as suggestions for this avatar. Everyone who purchases this BETA will get the full avatar at no extra cost to you! So what are you waiting for?
-=BUG FIXES AND CHANGES IN 2.1=-
It was brought to my attention that the appliers were broken. There are new applier scripts and relays in 2.1. These appliers will NOT work on previous versions.
-=CHANGES IN BETA 2.0=-
-BENTO EYELIDS!!!! OMG
-Mod resources including mesh dummy and textures
-Updated color HUD to have advanced color/alpha sections and a booty mark texture applier.
-New AO with updated eye and mouth expressions and blinking on/off
-Weights have been updated. You can now be a fat and/or wonky pony.
-Seams in the cell layer are fixed
-Mouth animations have been fixed
-Wings have been separated into their own objects and the tattoo layer combined
-Your choice of open, closed, or auto wings
-Jittering in the AO have been fixed
-Added pink eye texture that somehow got lost, oops
-Fixed 'halo' effect on the markings textures
-A lot of other minor things that I have totally forgotten
A shoutout to Tapple Gao for her wonderful help on coding the HUDS.
- Bento fitmesh avatar
- Easy to mod
- Can fit unrigged pony items with a little modding
- 'Marking' layer that can be textured separately
- Modding resources
Oh god make it stop
So the color hud, is like watching paint dry. You got to wait for the color to be set. Can't use you're own custom colour via hex value or r,g,b value. The cutiemark upload needs you to be reloged to be able to see the change. The hud needs to be reset after changing colour once.
Took a hour to re-colour the pony first time because of how bad the hud is. Please add a hex value
>_>
please make tail animated and bring more features ideas that you haven't thought of yet
Very good excited for updates.
This avatar is rather well made and has a lot of potential. The price, though affordable feels a tad high for beta, but I decided to take the risk. I'm not disappointed at all.
It allows for custom textures, includes a mod kit, and though there aren't any clothing options for it yet, the hud allows you to alpha segments to avoid clipping. It's fairly customizable in it's current state. The body and head react with shape sliders being bento, though there are some that don't respond. Sliders I'm glad do change avatar appearance are height, weight, hand, and foot size. Taller, shorter, heavier, thinner, ponies can easily be done with this to some degree, alongside making hooves smaller or larger.
Lastly, things that I'm sure will get updated in time include the animations. They function well but could use some smoothing. The eyelids. They're currently done the old fashioned way, which isn't bad, bento blinking, and eye shape would be nice. There are limited facial expressions for the pony, but I'm sure this will change in time.
There is a bug I've noticed. I'm unsure what causes this, but the hind legs will randomly shorten over time, though this can be fixed by reattaching the deformer/ao.
All in all, I feel this avatar will do well once it's completed. I'm ecstatic to see updates!
I'd say a true replacement for the old ep pony
It's a great avatar even if it's beta is say if your a fan of the old ep pony this mite be the next pony you want.
Has a lot of potential.
As the title states, this avatar has a lot of potential.
It's bento, it comes with a long and short mane and tail, it has a built in tattoo layer, really nice animations so far, wings and a horn.
The only thing as of right now is the lack of expressions, but im sure this will be updated later.
looking forward to these updates, keep up the great work.
Fitted mesh bento hors
First of all I wanted to say thanks for putting out the demo! As last reviewer mentioned, the price is a bit higher than the other pony avs in this style, and I'd probably not have gotten this at the 1,500l full price since I'm not active in the mlp community much anymore. But at the current discounted price, the fact the maker put out a demo almost immediately when I asked for one on tumblr, and how nice the creator is about suggestions and bug reports, I don't regret the purchase.
Yes, there's a list of stuff that needs fixing, and a lot of suggestions to be had, but I sent them all in a notecard and have trust at least a good chunk will get worked on over time. A full, especially feral avatar is a lot of work, and I'm sure once things are fixed and more features are added, it'll be well worthy of the price. A beta is a work in progress that the community can give input on and help grow, not a 99% finished product.
I mean, heck, just putting it on with some funny animations and a Physics layer will entertain me for a good while, and that's a gift on it's own. Very much looking forward to updates and to make things for this avatar.