Avastar

 

How to get the Product?

If you already have purchased the Avastar-2 development version, then you now have instant access to the Avastar-2 Release Candidates in your downloadpage. You find more about the release candidates on our Website:

Avastar 2 Doc
(brief overview)

Avastar 2 Documentation
(work in progress)

 

Frequently asked questions

Renew

For getting a renewal
you need to
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(*) Annual Renewal Includes Avastar-2 with basic rig
and new extended bento rig
Note: Release candidate versions available, You get the release as soon as it is published (april 2017)

What you get?

  • A Download link to the software (Blender Addon)
  • Bug Reporting System
  • 1 year of product updates1

1: You can continue to use the addon after your year is complete. Renewal adds a new year of updates.

Your Benefit

  • Simplified Fitted Mesh
  • Full Animation support
  • Huge Documentation
  • Actively Developed
  • SL Support Group Blender Avastar

Check the Documentation

In a Nutshell

Avastar is a Blender Addon for:

Attachments (Clothes)
Avatars & Creatures
Animations

supported Formats: .dae .bvh .anim
For Blender 2.75 or newer

Avastar in Pictures

Reference Videos

We only provide a very limited set of Videos for the up to date Avastar release. These Videos are all embedded in the Reference Manual pages.

Avastar Installation

If you are new to blender then please follow the Installation guide precisely.

Beginners Page

You find all documents for the most recent Avastar release in the right sidebar of this page. Please report if you miss anything.

How does Avastar differ from Blender?

We are often asked what Avastar has that Blender does not already provide. The highlights in the next section tell briefly how Avastar competes to other tools. If you are interested in a detailed comparison, then please

Compare Avastar & Workbench

Highlights

Mesh

Avastar integrates seamless into the Blender framework. We support the download of SL shapes to Blender as well as the upload of mesh characters to SL. and … fitted Mesh support, exact SL shape support, SL shape sliders, Accurate attachment modelling, extended checks on meshes before export.

Animation

SL compatible BVH retargeting, Export to .bvh and to .anim format. Auto FK and IK/FK controls for the standard SL Rig. Accurate animation of pose bones, attachments and collision volumes, experimental support of attachment weighting and full support of fitted Mesh (Collision Volume weighting) and many more Features …

Some more detailed documents

Avastar for Blender  2.70 and newer

Avastar has been tested on Blender 2.70 or newer. It should also work on older Blender versions, but we do not recommend to do that. We have Release Notes for most of the published Avastar versions.

Avastar for Blender < 2.70

For those who have to use Blender 2.69 or older (for whichever reason), you still can get the previous Avastar release from the_archive folder in your download page1.

1: While you always can get an anonymous temporary link to the most current product version, you need to create an account and register your download page when you want to get access to the_archive. So you actually might want to

 Register your Download Page

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