When shall i buy which product ?

Avastar or Avatar Workbench ?

When your only intention is to create texture based mesh clothes, then the Avatar Workbench is all you need. Actually you also can create mesh attachments and characters with some additional effort (if you are familiar with Blender and know about the pitfalls of SL).
When you plan to build mesh based characters or mesh based attachments and Animations for your creations, then Avastar can be a huge time saver for you.

Primstar-2 or Jass ?

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

The “Sculptify Objects” function works best in Jass. (has flaws in Primstar-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.

Note: Jass will reach end of lifetime in summer 2013. Development of Jass has been stopped already. And product support will be stopped in summer 2013. However you will always get some help from our support groups.

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

Primstar-1.1 is the base product (Scripts distribution created By Domino Marama)
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

We highly recommend to use Primstar-2 when you are making Sculpted prims. But please see below for a more detailed decision guide.

All Jass-Products and Primstar-1 are made for Blender-2.49b only! They are based on each other and there is a logical order in how they are related.

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Hint: Blender 2.49 is no longer maintained since 2 years.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.

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