ROMSEY Homewood

Can any of the Dev's already setting up in Sansar give any info' about how it is going? Upload costs and land prices? Any bugs?

Many questions about Alpha layers getting 'stuck on' your avatar, no resolution unless you relog. This workaround seems to work for me: Win10 / LL Viewer Simply remove the whole outfit / r click in appearance and 'take off - remove from current outfit'. You are left with the basic minimum requirements, Shape, Eyes, Skin etc... R click the outfit in appearance again and 'Wear - Add to current outfit' - Use this method if you want to just remove your clothing individually, this seems to work ok...tired of relogging to "fix" it... Hope this helps, there does not seem to be any answers in the forums or a technological reason given why this happens...too many posts to read :matte-motes-dont-cry: (Maybe OpenGL problems?) Have fun! Romsey :catwink:

Hi Guys & Gals as the subject says "MESH: Why does a mesh model increase its Li when i reduce it's size in world?" And how is it when i make a similar model, same size, LESS faces, it uploads as 3Li? I am a bit confused!!! :matte-motes-dont-cry: Thanks in advance for your wise words. ROMSEY Homewood

Hi Dardi You could use the avatar.blend file but i found when making my new Marvin the paranoid android the SL avatar gives you greater flexibilty when making the shape that your prims will sit on. Atm the joints of the avatar.blend file cannot be moved or positioned for a better roboty shape. Marvin from the film HHGTTG is a kinda stumpy looking so i cannot use the avatar.blend as i would like....soon maybe! come on LL! pull your fingers out!!!

Hi Dardissounet In reply to Q.3 you can make intricate sculpted prims quite easily. Just remember that your UV map size should equal 1024, (Domino Marama's scripts) anything above this the LL viewer ignores so your lovely curvy shape will not be displayed but more of a blockier version...So as you may know you can create a cylinder in Blender (8 x 8 plus subdivision level 2+use subsurf+clean LODs) and it will rez pretty much as you see it, But you can also create very intricate scuplted prims by 8 x 128 (Subdiv 0 no subsurf) and even 4 x 256 (Subdiv 0 no subsurf) which then you can break into bits by zeroing 2 adjacent vertices. You can actually have a 32 piece sculpted prim which rezzes perfectly (remember 1024 pixels!). If u use the latter 4 x 256 (cylinder) dont forget to go into top view and rotate it 45 degrees and then (in object mode) press ctrl + A and select "scale and rotation to object" this will stop your sculpty map being "askew" by 45 degrees when rezzed which makes scaling a nightmare. Edit: Sizes that work best : 16 x 32, 8 x 128, 4 x 256 pixels per UV map. (no subdiv And no subsurf). Hope everyone finds this helpful. :cathappy:

Ty! you answered all my queries and MESH still has a long way to go but it's fun getting there, isnt it?.....wouldn't be fun if it was easy! :matte-motes-big-grin-wink: Dang! i so want to fiddle with the skeleton. Amplify your awesome

A quick Q. for you today, is it possible to upload just the rigging of an avatar? I don't want any mesh parts as it for a robot with solid prims, I just want to up load the "shape" of it. If so what is the format, simply .dae? Thank you in advance. :smileytongue:

Hi Markus Np, I have made my own foot alphas for my shoes so the same principle can (?) be applied to arms... Post a sketch or pic and I will make one for you. :catvery-happy: edit: OOPS! cannot do 1 arm! as the aplha textures are based on the clothing textures used by the viewer i.e. if i hide it on the texture it will hide both arms ...sorry :catsad: The only other way i can think of is to meshify your avatar, edit it without one arm and re-upload!!!....tricky.

:catsad: File will not upload to PasteAll.org...after 15 minutes. There does not seem to be many totally free, without sign-up, file sharing websites...i guess i will have to try and fix it myself. Thank you for your precious time.

posted the .blend file "SPONGEBOB_PATRICK" at PasteAll.org

Sorry, please try now i have made it public :catembarrassed:

.blend file plus the .dae export file:- https://drive.google.com/?tab=mo&authuser=0#folders/0B3EMKxx5ARWEQzY0VlRXSFp6QVU Forgot to add that the mesh has been parented to the skeleton and "made real". Scroll out for the pre subsurf and pre joined mesh model in the top left.

:womanfrustrated: So many things to remember....then instantly forget! I'll post the Blender file as soon as possible so u can have a go at the export.

I will publish as soon as i get home tonight in about 7 hours and thank you all for your help :smileylol:

:smileylol: Yes its all getting a bit techy...i have scaled my mesh with the skeleton...but. i have adjusted the joint positions on the skeleton slightly to fit my mesh (centre is still 0,0,0,) is it possible to move these joints without causing these glitches? examples below: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3EMKxx5ARWEZWFtcThiMDRQaHc/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3EMKxx5ARWEVm1rOGh5SGZRM00/edit