Blender 2.79 and limited Bindpose support

[Gaia Clary]

Today we (at blender.org) have added a new feature to Blender’s Collada Module, that is a very limited support for bind poses. This feature has been added to support foreign developer kits which have been created using poses different from the SL T Pose.

Of course our Avastar Blender Add-on does make use of this new feature. But also all Blender users who do not use Avastar for whichever reason can benefit from this feature. A more detailed information can be found here:

http://blog.machinimatrix.org/2017/03/23/limited-bind-pose-support-for-blender-279/

The feature can be found in the daily blender builds starting from tomorrow (24-march-2017):

https://builder.blender.org/download/

The feature is briefly documented in the blender documentation:

https://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=Doc:2.6/Manual/Data_System/Files/Import/COLLADA

We are aware this feature will be important only for a few people, especially those who have created or actually do custom work with A posed human developer kits.If the term bindpose does not say much to you, you better ignore this topic until we have created better documentation for it

Any feedback is welcome as always.

[Vaygah Varriale]

I'm newer to the blender game, but would this be important for those of us creating for say the belleza bodies? When setting up their kit in blender it instructs to leave it in rested pose with arms at an A angle. 

Note: I'll be rigging to this body for the first time soon.