Avastar: -10- Create a Tiny Avatar

Hello and welcome to my video about creating tinies and giant avatars
with the avastar addon.

Please note:
This tutorial also applies to avatar.blend and the Avatar Workbench,
where You can follow the exact same procedure.

So, the key to tinies or giants is: scaling the armature in object mode.

After you have scaled your character to the desired size, you only have
to apply the scale to all mesh parts and to the rig itself.
Otherwise your scaling will show no effect after upload to Second life.

However scaling the armature and applying the scale
has effectively changed the skeleton.
Therefore we must export the armature along with the object,
so that the Second Life importer knows how to modify the skeleton
to a tiny or giant.
Go to object mode,
and select your mesh and your armature at the same time.

Finally navigate to: file, export. There you find
2 collada exporters. You want to use the avastar exporter when you
work with the avastar skeleton. Otherwise you will use Blender’s
collada exporter in second life mode.

Now lets turn to the Second Life mesh importer.
After you have loaded your mesh, you can check it in the
preview window. You can enable the preview of skin weights
and joints here.
But keep in mind that enabling weights and joints in the previewer
is only good for inspection,
but will not upload the data.

Therefore you will open the upload options tab.
Here we have to include skin weights and include joint positions.
And only now the importer will upload what we expect,
so lets calculate weights&fees.
And finally we can upload the mesh.

Before i wear the tiny mesh, let me first wear my special
invisibility outfit. This outfit will hide my default avatar mesh.

oups, i have become a bit smaller by now. Lets get a bit closer.
We see that actually my tiny is standing well above ground.
Let us fix this now.

First i measure how much above ground my tiny hovers.
I simply create a prim cube and adjust its height to fit my hover height.

I copy the resulting height of the cube into the cut buffer,
then i re-upload the tiny mesh.
In the upload options i locate the z-offset entry,
paste the hover height here, and make it negative.

I upload again,
wear the new mesh,
and now my tiny is standing on ground.
thank you for watching,