Avastar-1-RC5-834

Gaia Clary — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:40:36 +0000

Avastar-1-RC5-834

After we found a few small issues i decided to go for another release candidate. The release of Avastar-1.0 by end o may is still very likely.

Changeset: New: Advanced minimum supported Blender Release to 2.63 Imp: Clean Target weight groups before perform weight [...]

Avastar1-RC4-821

Gaia Clary — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:23:51 +0000

Avastar-1-RC4-821 (fix for 812)

Important: In Avastar-812 there was a major bug and a compatibility issue with older releases. I just have fixed the known issues and replaced the download. Sorry for the inconvenience. This page still fully applies. So now hopefully this is indeed our final Release candidate [...]

Avastar-1-RC1-775

Gaia Clary — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:50:47 +0000

Avastar-1-RC1-775

So here is our first Relese candidate for Avastar-1.0 We have fixed another few bugs and added many improvements regarding usability, like helper tools for non humanoid rigging and a more robust Collada exporter. The video gives you a first impression about how non human rigging works [...]

Avastar-1 Update 744

Gaia Clary — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:41:18 +0000

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: [...]

Avastar-1 Update 734

Gaia Clary — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:50:24 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-734

Hello. While creating the Collision Volume Tutorial i found some annoying issues. This update contains the fixes.

Changeset: Imp: Added a new option for removing weights from mesh during freeze Fix: A custom mesh distorts massively when its name started [...]

Avastar-1 update 726

Gaia Clary — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:31:39 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-726

Hello. This time only a small update related to Documentation: We have added Links to our Online Documentation into the Blender main Help menu. And we have improved the Label of the Help button in the Error Popup Window. It now indicates that you [...]

Roll back after Database Corruption

Gaia Clary — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:13:31 +0000

We are sorry to tell you that we have encountered a corruption in our Blog Database. We meanwhile fixed the cause of all trouble but we had to recover to the Blog state of 1-January-2013. Hence all changes in the Blog since 1-january are lost. This affects all Forum entries and [...]

Avastar-1 update 723

Gaia Clary — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:36:37 +0000

Short usage manual:

Create your Avastar shape as usual (only use the shape sliders for deforming the Avastar. This should give best results.) Create your mesh attachments as usual (no need to use special skeleton constraints) Upon exporting your mesh attachment you only set the new option [...]

Avastar-1 Update 720

Gaia Clary — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:08:33 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-720

We have added experimental support for the Mesh Deformer:

Basically you setup your Avastar shape by using the Shape sliders as before. You create your Attachment by using exactly the anticipated shape (No need to take care of Deformer constraints) Upon exporting your mesh [...]

Phishing for Purchase ID’s

Gaia Clary — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:34:47 +0000

Hi, dear customers

We have been informed about users who claimed to be “employees of Jass” or of Machinimatrix. These persons try to get hold of your Purchase ID’s so they can download the software for free. If someone comes to you and asks you about your customer information, then please [...]

Avastar-1 update 713

Gaia Clary — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:35:47 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-713

We reworked the parenting and weighting tools. Basically these tools have been merged into one single tool. Our aim was to make the rigging process easier to understand. We also fixed a few bugs with recognition of zero weighted vertices. We still have not yet fixed [...]

Avastar-1 Update 694

Gaia Clary — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:24:51 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-694

This is primary a bugfix update. We have fixed all major known issues with Avastar. We also added some improvements to existing functions. But please read the Limitations section below. Sorry, this time we have no new Demo video for you.

Changeset: IMP: Textbased [...]

Primstar-2: update 283

Gaia Clary — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:16:45 +0000

Primstar-2-dev-283 ready for Blender 2.64:

This Primstar-2 update introduces a workaround for a Bug in Second Life concerning LSL-based Sculptie generators.:

FIX: Fixed problems with linking parts in Second Life FIX: LSL scripts with many parts can get heap/stack collision problems IMP: For multipart bakes the baker no longer rebakes already [...]

Avastar 1 update 639

Gaia Clary — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:07:00 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-639

This update fixes a compatibility issue with older Avastar releases. Now it should be possible to open old blend files again with Avastar and without getting broken uploads.

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Avastar-1 Update 636

Gaia Clary — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:15:12 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-636

This is a minor update. The changes are mostly usability improvements. The main changes are improvement of error handling and addition of a context sensitive help.

For Blender 2.64 pre release:

You can open the Help for any Avastar function button by:

Right Mouse Button [...]

Avastar: Custom Shape Sliders

Gaia Clary — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:33:20 +0000

Avastar: Custom Shape Sliders This article (video tutorial) shows how you can use the Avastar Shape sliders to affect your custom mesh. Please be aware that this feature simulates the Second Life Shape Editor. As a consequence only bone-length changing Shape sliders will affect [...]

The Avastar Forum …

Gaia Clary — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:24:58 +0000

Avastar Forums The run towards the Avastar-1.0 final release has started. And so it now is time to also open the Avastar Support Forum. You can access the forum main page from the Blog’s main menu. Note that we have removed the link to our Bugtracking system. It turned out [...]

Avastar-1-dev-625 is available

Gaia Clary — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:20:14 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-625 (for Blender 2.60++):

This update contains many small changes and a few realy big new features. Well, maybe not soo big on first view, but big enough to get very excited. The video to the right is a reworked version of the Avastar-5-: Mesh Rigging tutorial showing how to use [...]

Primstar-2: Update 281

Gaia Clary — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:32:30 +0000

Primstar-2-dev-281 on Blender 2.64 (r48351):

This Primstar-2 update fixes a compatibility issue with Blender:

FIX: Broken Operator panel for Import Sculptie from file.

NOTE: There is no fix for Blender-2.63. Earlier Blender releases are not affected.

When you find a Bug Send us your blend file Add a short description about:- [...]

Avastar 1 update 500

Gaia Clary — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:48:58 +0000

Avastar-1-dev-500 (for Blender 2.60-2.63a):

NOTE: The Update is sheduled for June-4-2012

The next Avastar update will come with some major changes (Most changes in the program itself and some improvements in the GUI). We have tested mostly with Blender 2.63a and found it to work stable. However due to [...]