convert a maya rig to avastar bento rig in blender

Convert a maya rig to avastar bento rig in blender how to#

Side view on a default female with blank skin.

“Show Bones” on my avatar, lots of Bento face bones.

The display setting is in the viewer Developer’s menu, in most viewers, under “Avatar” or “Character”. This is the way the mBones of the armature look inworld now – the green glowy lines. 159 bones now, in this teen aged armature. Armature bones for face, fingers, wings, tail and animal hind legs. In 2014 or so, artists began to make “fitted” mesh we could rig to the collision bones, to make attached clothing or an attached mesh body move with the Appearance sliders. Each collision bone is clamped to its mBone parent, so that a vertex weighted with PELVIS, (the collision bones are in CAPS), will move with its clamped parent, mPelvis.Ī few years later we got a few more bones for feet and skull. The Second Life armature, about fifteen years ago, consisted of 21 movement bones – “mBones” plus 26 collision bones, which at that time, besides keeping avatars from walking through each other, were used in the inworld Appearance sliders, to make the default avatar fatter or thinner, more muscular, and the ever-popular big boobs and butt.

I think this information should have been made more public years ago. Along the way I floundered like a beached jellyfish and ran around the mulberry bush like a hound chasing imaginary rabbits.

Convert a maya rig to avastar bento rig in blender how to#

It took a while for me to figure out how to find the information I needed.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. Copyright ©2003-2020 Linden Research, Inc. What we have to work with are three Second Life sources: avatar_skeleton.xml, male_2016_08_05.dae,, and. Then I’ll use what I learn to do the Default Bento Female for the next Ruth release. What I want is a replica of the Default Bento Male in Blender 2.8x, so I can use it to rig the next release of Roth, and get it exported from Blender 2.8x and into an opensimulator grid without tears. Now that I rather painfully figured out how collision bones export from Blender so that they almost work inworld, it’s time to tackle the mBones.