Import/Export

This is Blender’s menu for importing and exporting various types of data including meshes, armatures and animations. Avastar adds an Exporter for Collada and a couple of importers for SL Shapes, SL BVH Animations and SL Rigs.

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Export Collada (Avastar)

The Collada exporter exports your Mesh character or mesh attachment to a file with the file ending .dae and possibly it also exports a set of images (image textures). You find the Mesh Exporter in the Blender Export menu.

Animation Exporter

The Avastar Animation exporter exports skeletal animations of the Avastar Armature. We support 2 export Modes (anim and BVH).

Import Shape

Secondlife supports the export of custom Avatar Shapes as Data files in XML(\) Format. The Shape Importer converts those data files into Avastar Appearance Slider configurations.

Import SL-Animation

A simple file importer for SL Animation files using the BVH format. The importer only works reliably if following conditions apply: