#SECOND LIFE BLENDER RIGGING TUTORIAL HOW TO#
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This is also not necessary, but it leaves us with a cleaner desk at the end.

We will move the selected elements to another layer (layer 2) by pressing the вЂњmвЂќ key and selecting layer 2 Press OK.

and SHIFT right click the LowerBody of the avatar:.

then press the вЂњhвЂќ key to hide the parts:.

Hide all unneeded parts of the default avatar, i.e.

This file contains all we need to get our personal avatar perfectly rigged in a few minutes only.

Make a copy of avatar.blend and open the copy with blender.

#SECOND LIFE BLENDER RIGGING TUTORIAL DOWNLOAD#

If you wish you also can download all other parts of your avatar (skirt, hair and eyes) but for our purpose this is not necessary.

Proceed with the lowerBoddyMesh and the upperBodyMesh in the same way.

вЂњheadMesh -> headMesh -> CurrentMesh вЂ“ Save OBJвЂќДЄnd save the file to your favorite location on your computer.

Navigate to вЂњAdvanced -> Character -> Meshes And MorphsвЂќ.

If you do not see the Menu button in your top menu, then you can unhide it with CTRL-ALT-D. If you donвЂ™t want that, you need to remove your AO (animation overrider) first. They might be morphed into the relaxed pose, pointing pose, or fist pose. As far as i have seen the currently effective morphs are taken into account. Otherwise your avatar is created with an ugly looking heel.

Prepare your avatar: Take off the shoe base.

So one hair technic that would work great for let's say 'the sims' hair-props would totally not work well for SL mesh hair.ДЄnd in SL you generally might consider making hair out of bigger shapes and tapered cylenders, rather then what other game engines use (like the above described flat polygon layering). since every engine has it's own needs and requirements and quirks when it comes to these things.

#SECOND LIFE BLENDER RIGGING TUTORIAL HOW TO#

In addition: Unfortunately not every tutorial on how to create polygon hair is helpful for SL. Just try to make as little seams as needed, because every seam doubles the vertices insides of the game engine. But generally don't worry too much about this, you can create your UV layout for your hair as you wish, and as it fits best with the topology and geometry of the hairmesh. The example with the UV map is mostly for flat layered Polygon hair (used in engines with workarounds for the alphasorting issue, or with internal layering and sorting handlers) where those flat hair-platforms can basically generate all from the same line of vertices. Thus watching regular weighting tutorials is not wrong, because they will give you an understanding of how to actually weight 'whatever' item onto the skeleton. Or even the upper arm bones if strings of the hair would reach over these. If it is longer then of course also by the chest and the collarbones. a military cut, you have of course to weight it also to all bones it will physically be influenced by (hang over so to say).ДЄ Haircut where the hair hangs down to the end of the neck would also be needed to be weighted to / and influenced by the neck bone. Think about it like this: when you divide a body into it's armature and bones, and have a look at the SL skeleton you will see, there is also a neckbone a chest, shoulders etc. Regarding the weighting towards more then just the scalp: yes. I figured that when trying to find some for other users having similar questions. Unfortunately there are not much hair rigging tutorials for SL. Im certain Im not the only one who would like to know more specifically related to polygon hair mesh.

If anyone has some urls that might help me with UV maps and rigging related to hair, please share. If anyone wants a list of the tutorials I found let me know. But Ive also read that with some hair, especially long hair, you have to rig it to more than the avatar scalp. Since hair has many more parts than say a shirt or pants I'm concerned that watching videos for clothing isnt going to cover any possible glitches that one might encounter with regard to hair. He also said the UV map would have to be updated as he went along but never showed that. One showed it was important to make the UV map with the very first strand and indicated that UV map would be used for all strands because all strands would start from the initial strand. and only one showed a most important step, UV mapping. Now with some great tutorials watched Im ready to start practicing, however, I noted a reference to rigging hair, yet none of the tuts Ive watched show how to rig hair.

I finally stumbled on the correct term for the kind of mesh hair tutorial I was looking for.

Second life blender rigging tutorial