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Tag Archives: Avatar
Blender Avatar Rigging – Simple Guide
These notes are a reminder of the process to use Blender to take the Ruth2 v4 mesh avatar, add an “armature” for rigging and go through the process of exporting Collada (.dae) and importing to Second Life/OpenSim. It follows a … Continue reading
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Ruth2 Mesh Clothing in OpenSim
Now that Ruth2 v4 is release (see this blog post), it may be time to explore some of the clothing options available for her. Ruth2 is a low-poly open source mesh avatar for OpenSimulator and Second Life. Remember Ruth2 v4 … Continue reading
Ruth2 v4
Ruth2 v4 Revision 2020-09-02 Based on Blender Mesh from https://github.com/RuthAndRoth/Ruth2 (was Ada Radius Draft 11). Use a viewer which supports Bakes on Mesh, e.g. Firestorm. Ruth2 is a low-poly mesh body specifically designed for OpenSimulator and which can also be … Continue reading
Roth2 v2
Roth2 v2 Revision 2020-05-24 Based on Blender Mesh from https://github.com/RuthAndRoth/Roth2 (was DRAFT8_4) Use a viewer which supports Bakes on Mesh, e.g. Firestorm. Roth2 is a low-poly mesh body specifically designed for OpenSimulator and which can also be used in Second … Continue reading
Ruth 2.0 LuvMyBod – Resources
Hyacinth Jewell, a content creator in OpenSimulator, has provided a revised higher definition version of the open source Ruth 2.0 avatar mesh. This post provides some resources and links for this. hop://grid.hgluv.com:8302/Luv Plaza/78/138/28
Ruth2 and Roth2 Statistics
Ruth2 and Roth2 are low-poly mesh avatar bodies, specifically designed for Opensimulator and second Life. They are built to use standard Second Life UV maps using scratch-built open source mesh bodies by Shin Ingen with other open source contributions from … Continue reading
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Ai Austin Mk 2
A bit of a refresh of the Ai Austin avatar which I have been using in Second Life and OpenSim since 2006… Ai Austin Mk. 1 Ai’s original skin was a gift back in 2006 from a fellow educator who … Continue reading
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Ruth2 and Roth2
Ruth2 and Roth2 are low-poly mesh avatar bodies, specifically designed for Opensimulator and Second Life. They are built to use standard Second Life UV maps using scratch-built open source mesh bodies by Shin Ingen with other open source contributions from … Continue reading
FrancoGrid Fest’Avi 2016
I recently took a tour of the OpenSimulator-based FrancoGrid on its Fest’Avi 2016 region – as it prepares its 2017 festival. This involves the creation of open source avatars in a show case area. A very nice visual feast. FrancoGrid … Continue reading
Sansar Name Label
Avatar name labels are not yet included in Sansar. They are useful as a means to recognise others and initiate social communication with them. Some users have taken to creating an avatar attachment with their avatar name as a label. … Continue reading
Second Life – Bento Avatars
Trying the new richer Bento skeleton avatars… which were released as starter avatars by Linden Lab on 5th July 2017 (see this announcement). Thomas with my old Ai Austin skin and shape works great as “Strider”… and I even get … Continue reading
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Second Life Starter Avatars
Second Life provides a wide selection of avatars to select from when you first join, and these are all available in the Avatar Picker tool or the Inventory “Library” to pick later. Its also possible to mix and match to … Continue reading
Ai Austin @ 10
Ai Austin is 10 years old in Second Life today (joined on 6th August 2006)… Here are Ai’s outfits built up over the period in Second Life… Ai’s skin was a gift back in 2006 from a fellow educator who … Continue reading
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Second Life Visual Outfits Browser
A version of the Second Life Viewer which support a visual gallery of avatar outfits is being tested. The Outfits tool is extended to include a “Visual Outfits Browser” (VOB). Thumbnails (typically 256×256 or 128×128 images) can be created in … Continue reading
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Avatar JellyDolls
From Second Life Viewer 4.0.5 (18-May-2016) a capability to increase performance by rendering some highly complex avatars as “JellyDolls” was introduced. When set appropriately, the viewer will render avatars with a complexity score that are over some preset limit as … Continue reading
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Unity, Photon MMO and IMVU Avatars
There are Unity3D packages available to add Photon multi-user networking support and IMVU avatar connections. Photon Realtime multiplayer networking support is available using their Photo Cloud free for up to 20 concurrent users, or you can host a Photon MMO … Continue reading
Second Life Avatars
Second Life has a new set of “mesh attachment” avatars called “Classic” available through the initial account creation page at http://join.secondlife.com and through the “Me -> Choose an Avatar” in the viewer. It is interesting that Linden Lab chose to … Continue reading
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Halloween in Second Life 2015
Ghost avatars in Second Life at Halloween 2015 2015 Second Life Creepy Crawl 2015 Run by Xiola Linden on 30th October 2015, this event visited a number of spooky locations with “appropriate” music for the occasion… see https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Featured-News/Get-Your-Costumes-Ready-for-Friday-s-Inworld-Creepy-Crawl/ba-p/2975298
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Valkyrie Avatar
The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics is to get a NASA Valkyrie Robot in March 2016 as part of its Robotarium. The Valkyrie robotic platform was originally designed and built in 2013 to carry out search and rescue missions in line … Continue reading
Getting Started in OpenSim
This blog post is to assist new users to get started quickly with the creation of a new “avatar” in OpenSimulator (also known as “OpenSim”), an open source virtual world server similar to the commercial Second Life service and accessed … Continue reading
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RGU Diver Avatar on AiLand
Colin Hetherington, who produced the Robert Gordon’s University (RGU) oil rig training facility, has also created mesh attachments and a diver wet suit for OpenSim and Second Life. 3D mesh parts are imported to the virtual world platform via the … Continue reading
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Tagged Avatar, Diver, Oil Rig, OpenSim, RGU, Second Life, Virtual World
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Mesh Avatars
Second Life avatars early on were based on an underlying custom mesh (Poser like) with the basic body shape, skin texture, eyes and basic hair. Then a range of “layers” to add clothing and the textures could be applied to … Continue reading
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Okay Venus – Right Lets Go
Experiment with OpenSim Venus avatar and persistent NPC from Gerry Anderson’s Fireball XL5 on Space City region of OSGrid. Visit Venus in Space City on OSGrid at hop://login.osgrid.org:80/Space%20City/222/242/22/ There are some nice colourisations of still frames from the Fireball XL5 … Continue reading
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Robert the Robot Avatar on OpenSim
Message understood… on our way ‘ome… Robert the Robot, co-pilot of Fireball XL5, a transparent robot invented by Professor Matic and Earth’s most advanced mechanical man (voiced by an uncredited Gerry Anderson using an artificial larynx and the only main … Continue reading
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Phaze Demesnes Resources in OpenSim
Ferd Frederix via his Phaze Demesnes web site has provided many fine open source resources, scripts, objects and avatars in Second Life, and has recently been providing the content also in OpenSim. His Ruhengeri savannah style area on the region … Continue reading
Cloud Party – Virtual World in a Browser with WebGL
Cloud Party has been available for the last year or so and I tried it out when it first appeared. Since, initially, Facebook linked login was required, and I long ago ditched Facebook due to its constant creep on privacy … Continue reading
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AI – Avatar Identity – Digital Artifact
Ai & Be – Avatar Internet Chat Design rationale, background, video, extended artifact and live artifact visiting details: http://atate.org/ai/ai/
Avatar to Avatar Chatbots
My two OpenSim avatars using “MyCyberTwin” chatting away together. Part of the creation of a digital artifact for the 2011/12 University of Edinburgh MSc in e-Learning course on Digital Cultures: http://atate.org/ai/ai/res/2011-10-09-chat-log-ai-and-be.txt At least they don’t bicker like some recent chatbot … Continue reading
Who is Me, My Avatar and His Clone
Experiments with avatar cloning facilities as a basis for non-player characters (NPCs) in the latest development versions of OpenSim… for a possible visual artifact as part of the MSc in e-Learning Digital Cultures Course.