Workflows

This section contains a collection of workflow documents.

A Workflow is just a description of a common step by step approach for a specific task. Please feel free to suggest more workflows if you are missing one. We also appreciate your own workflows. You can add them as a comment

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Clones

Sometimes you may want to modify the Avastar meshes

Attach

Attach a Mesh Model to Avastar.

Fitted Mesh

The Workflow is briefly described in the advanced section:

Fit to Shape

Creating a fitted Mesh has become a bit easier with our new Fitting tool. This document contains a brief usage workflow. For the full documentation please read the Fitting Panel Help page.

Add Avastar

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Load Shapes

Suppose you start a fresh Project with an empty scene. You already have downloaded your personal Shape from Second Life as a local Shape file (in XML Format). All that you want is to create a new Avastar character with exactly…

Upload to SL

The Video explains:

Bind Pose

In previous Avastar releases we always needed to eventually use the T-posed Character when we were creating models and attachments with human shapes. We did so to keep compatible to the SL T-Pose rig (experts may remember the…

Basic workflows

You should work through the Basic Workflows section at least once to get comfortable with how to use Avastar.

Convert to T-Pose

This workflow applies to Rigs which have a restpose different from the SL restpose. Note: It is not strictly necessary to convert your rig into a T-Pose. Avastar supports binding to arbitrary poses since a while. Basically this…