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Avastar-1-dev-744

Hello. I have completely reworked the Weight Paint toolshelf. All essential weighting functions are now at one single place. I also added a couple of weight copy improvements which are mainly targeted to ease of usage. The Weighting Tools documentation page is work in progress.

Changeset:

  • Imp: Changed parenting to avoid vertex group clutter. Missing vgroups are handled during export
  • Imp: changed location constraints to local space (support unlock SL skeleton rotation)
  • Imp: Collected all basic weight functions into the tool shelf (when in Weight Paint mode) for quick editing
  • New: Added copy from bone, mirror copy, remove, and copy from rigged for vertex groups
  • Imp: Added a check for empty meshes to avoid an exception during weight copy
  • Fix: Avoid to copy image to itself on export (now a warning)
  • Fix: resolved an issue with python not recognizing a try/catch block in blender-2.61
  • Fix: mesh gets destroyed when attachment was named similar to an Avastar-mesh
  • Fix: a blender bug which otherwise results in an unclean remove of weight groups
  • New: Added ability to remove weights when freezing a mesh
  • Imp: Make access to Help pages more clear.
  • Fix: A wrong pointer to wrong help page

Highlights:

  • New Copy weight tools
  • Improvements regarding creation of rigged meshes

Known bugs:

  • The Spine attachment bone has a wrong orientation. Thus attachment animations of the aSpine bone will turn the bone upside down. Only the aSpine bone is affected. For all other bones animations work just fine. No workaround known.
  • The .bvh export is broken. Workaround: Use the much more versatile .anim export instead.

Todo’s:

  • Completing the Documentation
  • Review (and partially redo) the existing videos

More Questions ?

Ask Gaia Clary in Second Life, or send email to mailto:gaia.clary@machinimatrix.org

Have Fun

Gaia & Magus & Domino

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Important notes:

  • We believe that we have fixed most issues with Avastar by now. However please continue reporting any issues. Every test case can help us to isolate new problems. Special thanks to Darien Caldwell, Optimo Maximus and Eleanora Newell for invaluable remarks and finds.

  • We have tested the new Avastar update on the development version of Blender. Avastar should now run on all Blender 2.6 versions up to Blender 2.65a.