Rigged mesh exported from Blender produces... disturbing results

[Allen Marx]

Well, the only way I know of how to explain this is through an image. I rigged a mesh in Blender to the SL skeleton. In Blender, the rig works perfectly - I can rotate every single joint and it looks just fine. I go to upload this rig into Second Life and... well...

I've checked - repeatedly - for any errors in Blender but I really can't see what I did wrong. Could anyone help?

[Gaia Clary]

Which Blender do you use ? (Blender 2.5 created rigged meshes do still not work. Exporting with Blender 2.49b should work.)

Have you looked into the "Modifier" section and enable the upload of joints ? Did you get a warning about missing weights ? Then this may help:

http://blog.machinimatrix.org/spikes-after-mesh-upload-to-sl/

 

[Allen Marx]

Ah, I am using 2.5. I wasn't aware that 2.5 didn't work with rigged meshes. I'll try with 2.49b, thanks!

[Chodai Yoshikawa]

Hi Allen,

Blender 2.58.1 versions greater than r38079 will correctly export rigged armatures. However until the bug with the mesh importer described in this Jira report  https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/CTS-660 is fixed it will not work correctly.

[Ashasekayi Ra]

I've gotten rigged mesh to work fine with version 2.58.1. Make sure you get a current build from graphicall.org. Then, make sure that you rename the armature avatar exactly.

[Floren Seiling]

I also struggled with this for many hours. After I found this post I tried Blender 2.49b, but it just crashed on export (using defaults and the scripts linked above). Sometimes it would export and then the viewer would crash on import or import would never finish. I downloaded Blender-2.58a-Trunk for Mac from graphicall.org and it exports correctly.

[Gaia Clary]

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Floren Seiling wrote:

I also struggled with this for many hours. After I found this post I tried Blender 2.49b, but it just crashed on export (using defaults and the scripts linked above).

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I am curious about the Blender-2.49 crash. Did you open the -blend file with 2.49b or did you link to the object using File -> Link ? While the first method probably will fail, the secnd method always worked for me in 2.49b

@Chodai Yoshikawa, Ashasekayi Ra: Thank you for your hints :matte-motes-smile:. Does this mean the bug CTS-660 was fixed meanwhile ?

[Floren Seiling]

I simply opened it. Blender gave me a warning that animations etc. might be lost. I checked over the model and it seemed OK, but then it would crash on export. I tried for an hour to use it then gave up and looked for the build I mentioned.

Now I have another problem, which is that SL it ignoring changes to my mesh altogether. It seems to have some kind of cache. I can make a drastic change, save it (even to a new Collada file), and SL still shows the old one. It then crashes. I think I sent a crash report every 10 minutes to LL yesterday. I am not finding much of this to be usable quality, even though it's so exciting and I have many ideas.

[Drongle McMahon]

"and SL still shows the old one"

Did you try setting Advanced->Show Debug Settings->meshImportUseSLM to FALSE ?

 

[summse Sands]

yeah im building my meshes in Blender 2.58 and rigg it at 2.49, its very simple to use.

greetings