JASS-2 (Just Another Sculptie Studio)

Get Jass-2
FREE for XP/Vista/7 OSX-10.4-intel
Version Number: Jass-pub-2.3.8

Please note:

Jass Pro and jass Magic have been replaced by Primstar-2

What is JASS-2 ?

JASS-2 is an all inclusive one-stop software bundle ready customized for a sucessfull start of your career as a sculpted prims creator for OpenSim and compatible virtual worlds. Jass-2 comes with an Installer (for Windows) and with an easy setup video tutorial for Mac-OS users. Below you find the complete list of what you will get with the free version Jass-pub-2.3.*:

  • blender-2.49b
  • python-2.6.5
  • primstar-1.1.0 (separately available in the Jass-Shop)
  • Additional documentation in the blender Help Menu (Links to the machinimatrix videos)
  • For the difference between FREE and PRO edition, see below

Intended Audience

Everybody who hesitates to go through the tedious installation process of blender, python and primstar.

What about PRO and Magic ?

The commercial prodcut versions Jass-Pro and jass-magic are no longer supported. They have been fully replaced by Primstar-2 for Blender 2.62 and newer.

 

Documentation:

Jass-2 contains software from blender, Domino Designs and python. The official documentation of these tools is also valid for Jass-2. More detailed informations about how to use Jass for sculptie creations can be found in our video tutorial section (also available from the Help -> Tutorials Menu inside Jass). Further information about sculpties can be found in the SL-wiki

Copyright note

  • Copyright 2010/2011 The Machinimatrix/Gaia.Clary
  • This product also contains blender from the blender foundation(*).
  • This product also contains python from the python comunity.
  • This product also contains primstar-1.1.0 from Domino Designs(**).
    Copyright 2009 Domino Designs Limited

(*) We have added some modifications for your convenience. All patches for primstar have been reported to Domino Designs. All patches for blender are available as a separate patch file.

(**) Primstar-1.1.0 is only available from the Jass-Shop. The Jass-Pro and Jass-Magic editions contain modified scripts from Domino Design and some additional functions from The Machinimatrix.

Your rights, your duties

Rights and Duties

In general 3D content that was created with our Tools or made by following our tutorials fully belong to you. And so you can do whatever you like with your content. And you can redistribute your content with any license terms you like. However, some of our products use items from third parties. And these items come along with their own usage terms.

It is your duty to check how the third party TOS policies apply to your work

 

TOS for third party items

We use data from

Any work based on the above mentioned data has its own license terms. MakeHuman has switched to a commons CC0 license which basically allows you to do what ever you like with your creations. For details please see Explanation of new license terms

For the SL default Avatar please check with Linden Lab. As far as we are concerned the data can be redistributed under a creative Common shareable license. We do not know which license terms apply to any work which is directly based on the SL Default Avatar data.

Re-Distribution of your blendfiles

You can officially redistribute your blend files together with the Avastar Rig. You only need to take care of:

  • The Avastar Rig contains the SL avatar using the CC-BY-3.0 license.
  • The Starlight skin textures from Eloh Eliot use the MIT License.
  • The Avastar-Rig components made by us use the CC-BY-3.0 license.

As far as we know those elements can be redistributed as long as you follow the license policies.

For us it is sufficient when you mention that your blendfile contains the Avastar-Rig using the CC-BY-3.0 license.
For LindenLabs and Eloh Eliot please contact them if you are in doubt.

Re-Distribution of our software

Please refrain from passing on our software products (Avastar, Sparkles, Primstar, …), as we finance the entire product development and maintenance only through sales.

Our Product License Terms

Avastar

Avastar is distributed under the Blender compatible GPL licence.

Your own creations made with the Help of Avastar can be redistributed in any way you like. This includes commercial usage of the creations and redistribution of .blend files which contain your creations. All parts of the products which are not explicitly marked as GPL are not distributed according to GPL license terms and may not be redistributed.

Sparkles

Sparkles is distributed under the Blender compatible GPL licence.

Your own creations made with the Help of Sparkles can be redistributed in any way you like. This includes commercial usage of the creations and redistribution of .blend files which contain your creations. All parts of the products which are not explicitly marked as GPL are not distributed according to GPL license terms and may not be redistributed.

Primstar-2

Primstar-2 is distributed under the Blender compatible GPL licence.

Your own creations made with the Help of Primstar-2 can be redistributed in any way you like. This includes commercial usage of the creations and redistribution of .blend files which contain your creations. All parts of the products which are not explicitly marked as GPL are not distributed according to GPL license terms and may not be redistributed.

Primstar-1, Jass-1, Jass-2

The Python scripts in these products are published under GPL license terms. However this does not extend to the Windows installers, data files and other items we provide for your convenience. If you plan to redistribute modified versions of our products, then please take care to strip down the packages to the GPL parts only. The general rule applies:

Your own creations made with Primstar-2 can be redistributed in any way you like. This includes commercial usage of the creations and redistribution of .blend files which contain your creations. All parts of the products which are not explicitly marked as GPL are not distributed according to GPL license terms and may not be redistributed.

In particular you are not allowed to redistribute:

  • The Jass-installers executables themself
  • the blenderloader.exe
  • data files such as the library sculpt maps (*.png) and Blend files (*.blend) (except avatar.blend)

For more detailed information please examine the installed software in detail and check the readme files.

Have fun…
The Machinimatrix