ArcaneBlackwood

It was a humanoid shape, default from the Avatar workbench - female angel. I deleted bones hierarchically that I wasnt using, eg hind legs, half the wings. Im not entirely sure where to set these values. Im assuming it would be on each individual bone?

Ive followed what you have stated here and have had much better success, the model is much less deformed, but there is still something wrong with the bones. Viewing through Developer > Render Metadata > Joints. Sicne Im using the Avatar workbench model, I already have the properties set. The mesh is deformed, but it only seems to be vertical deformation. From what I can tell via the Developer rendering options, the bones dont look linked properly, and seem to mostly be horizontal except a couple at the back. Here is a screenshot of the model, left and center is SL, right is Blender(Goal) Im stupmed, it seems so close, but still not working. Any ideas?

Im having problems with importing my rigged and weighted. Everything seems fine up until I enable 'weights' preview in the upload dialog: I thought maybe it was just the default animation that was causing it, since i have modified bones and thier positions to fit my model. I imported and played a custom animation that works within blender for my exact rig. But still fails, looking like the picture above, malformed and disfigured beyond use. Everything in the blender file is not scaled, all transforms are applied, and all bones and their corresponding vertex groups are labeled correctly. Even if i use Bento Female-2017-01-09 .blend from the Avatar Workbench without modification, it fails in the same way, having an incorrect deformation in the same way. I thought maybe it was a bug in the Firestorm Viewer, so switched to the legacy Viewer, but still, no change. From what i have heard, its common to have issues importing from blender, but nothing I have found has been successful or even useful. I do not have, and do not intent do purchase the Avastar plugin. Is there any way to import this model with bones and weight information successfully? Heres my blender file: http://files.arcanes-spoteh.nz/uploads/11-PonySecondLife.blend