Avastar or Avatar Workbench ?

Primstar-2 or Jass ?

Right now there are only 2 reasons why you would want to keep running with Jass (on Blender 2.49):

1. The “Sculptify Objects” function works best in Jass. (has flaws in Primstar-2)
2. Jass-pub is the only fully working AND free of charge tool from us.

Our recommendation is clearly: Use Blender 2.6* and Primstar-2.

Note: You can run Jass AND Primstar-2 in parallel.

• Avastar-1 is a new tool made for Blender 2.6. This tool is focussed on character creation & animation.
• Primstar-2 is a complete rewrite of Primstar-1 made for Blender-2.6. The tool is made for creating Sculptred Prims and Terrain.
• Primstar-Zero is a free but very limitted Sculptie tool. In some cases this tool may help you to get started with Sculpted Prims without budget. But it can not be compared with Primstar-2

1. Primstar-1.1 is the base product (Scripts distribution created By Domino Marama)
2. Jass-Pub is mostly identical to Primstar-1.1 but it comes with an installer (for Windows and Mac) and delivers a complete software bundle including Python and Blender-2.49b

Blender 2.49 or Blender 2.6 ?

You first have to decide if you want to work with Blender-2.49b or Blender-2.6. You can decide to work with both, there is no Problem with that. All our products can be installed in parallel on the same computer without interfering.

Hint: Blender 2.49 is no longer maintained since 2 years. The user interface for Blender 2.6 is much more user friendly and Blender 2.6 conforms much more to today’s graphic industry standards.

• Blender 2.6 is your choice ?
  If you decide to go with Blender 2.6, then you can choose between Avastar-1 and Primstar-2.
  The good news is that our tools run on every platform which is supported by Blender-2.6. Installation and workflow is fully independent from your Operating system.
  the bad news is: You have to choose which tool fits best for your purpose.
  Our tools can be purchased for 6000 L$, 23,25 US$, 15.0 € this is the price for one Addon.
• You make Sculpted Prims ?
  Then Your choice will be Primstar-2 for sure.
• You make Terrain ?
  You may want to take a look at Primstar’s terrain support.
• You create Characters and mesh attachments ?
  Then Avastar-1 is for you for sure.
• You make Animations ?
  Avastar-1 is exactly what you need.
• You make static Mesh ?
  If you create items like furniture, buildings, environment assets like trees and plants etc, then you do not need any of our products. Just take Blender and be happy.

• Blender 2.49 is your choice ?
  If you decide to go with Blender 2.49b, then you can choose Jass-Pub: If you want to save money, this is your choice. Jass-Pub is free

can’t decide yet ?

If you decide to go with a more basic product now, then later decide to upgrade, then we currently count all your up to date purchases. So you are safe to start with low budget even zero budget (Jass-pub is free) and upgrade later without having to pay extra upgrade fees. Note that this may change in the future.

Some Helpful tips

• Hint: for Linux users with Blender 2.49b: Jass-Pub contains a zip-folder with the pure Scripts distributions. This is what you will have to install on your Blender-2.4.
• Hint: If you want to get the “pure download” from Dominodesigns AND if you are a technician who really knows how to install add on scripts on Blender-2.49b then the Primstar-1.1 distribution is your choice.

About your creations made with our products

In general your own creations which are made with our packages fully belong to you. However some of our packages contain data from third parties. We especially use data from

• Linden Labs (The SL avatar, morph data, weight data)
• MakeHuman (The mesh data, default texture)

Any work based on the above mentioned data may be copyrighted under special license terms.

MakeHuman license:
For MakeHuman, please check the

Essentials of the MakeHuman license.

For the SL default Avatar please check with Linden Labs. As far as we are concerned the data can be redistributed under a creative Common shareable license. We do not know which license terms apply to any work which is directly based on the SL Default Avatar data.

About redistribution of our products

Avastar

Avastar is distributed under the
Avastar End User License Agreement.
The Avastar Addon can not be redistributed in any way.

However your own creations made with Avastar can be redistributed in any way you like. This includes commercial usage of the creations and redistribution of .blend files which contain the Avastar-Rig.

Primstar-2

Primstar-2 is distributed under the
Primstar-2 End User License Agreement.
The Primstar-2 Addon can not be redistributed in any way.

However your own creations made with Primstar-2 can be redistributed in any way you like. This includes commercial usage of the creations and redistribution of .blend files which contain your creations.

Primstar-1, Jass-1, Jass-2

The Python scripts in these products are published under GPL license terms. However this does not extend to the Windows installers, data files and other items we provide for your convenience. If you plan to redistribute modified versions of our products, then please take care to strip down the packages to the GPL parts only. The general rule applies:

All parts which are not explicitly marked as GPL are not distributed according to GPL license terms and may not be redistributed.

In particular you are not allowed to redistribute:

• The Jass-installers executables themself
• the blenderloader.exe
• data files such as the library sculpt maps (*.png) and Blend files (*.blend) (except avatar.blend)

For more detailed information please examine the installed software in detail and check the readme files.