RE: [www-vrml] RE: [x3d-public] Clay Shirky Weighs In On SL and VRML History

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

Too bad.  The ease of the thing is a winner because team building is a
rarity.  I explored the directories to work out how to move some things
around, looked at the jpg for mapping, etc.  You are right that this isn't
something one does without tools and that one is at the sweet spot of ease
and functionality.  I can get around most of the limits except making those
jpgs in the right proportions.

len


From: Paul Aslin [mailto:fabricatorgeneral@yahoo.com] 

Avatar Studio is a dead end commercial application, nothing
else creates avatars in the same format. Sure Seamless3D
can edit Avatar Studio made avs, and Flux Studio can make
Blaxxun compatable Avatars. Neither app is as easy to use,
read not idiot proof, which is what the SL era users
expect.

The Naya software was almost as easy to use as Avatar
Studio, I only ever got the demo version, with a limited
number of avatar models, the models wern't as detailed but
weren't the same either. It exports to H-Anim and thusly
works in multiple plugins and also can be edited with other
apps.

To be honest there really isn't another vrml app like
Avatar Studio, at a basic level its two 3d characters
(male,female) plus a huge pile of displacers to alter
height, weight, arm length, and numerous other controls.
Then add the conforming clothing, custom textures, hats and
the like. You almost need a team of 3d artists just to make
all the content. 

--- Len Bullard <cbullard@hiwaay.net> wrote:

> I didn't know about the Naya app.  Is it better?  I know
> I've asked before,
> but is the variation from H-anim huge in the Avatar
> Studio apps?
> 
> It is a neat app in that it is very easy to use.  OTOH,
> it isn't extensible
> and what it provides in the way of clothes and
> accessories, etc., don't meet
> my needs (no Hindu clothes or styles).  I suspect I'm on
> my own for that and
> I haven't gotten far enough to work out how hard it will
> be to adapt these
> avs to that style.  Given they are single mesh, possibly
> very hard.
> 
> len
> 
> 
> From: Paul Aslin [mailto:fabricatorgeneral@yahoo.com] 
> 
> By the Numedia avs, I assume you mean Avatar Studio
> created
> avatars.
> 
> There was also a H-Anim app that made Avatars called
> "Naya
> Avatar Creator". Ask the web3d.org people about the sdk
> which included the installer.
> 
> The Welder name would be from Avatar Studio, The french
> world for weld also means "to bind together".
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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