As life often does, it interfered again. However, part of this was due to taking an excellent course last year about current modeling practices and software – things have changed since my early days of learning Maya and 3D Max! This was time well spent and it should allow me to make faster changes. That being said, I am currently waiting on Avastar’s updates, which are necessary for the new bone changes in SL’s rigs. While it’s annoying to have to go backward a bit (reskinning and weighting the avatar) you will all find it worth it because you will have much more control over personalizing the shape.
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Gary McClellan
April 28, 2014 at 9:37 am
Great to hear! Can’t wait to see the results.
Ronja Savage
December 4, 2014 at 9:44 am
Fiona..hope you come back soon waiting for the result very long.
Fiona Branagh
December 4, 2014 at 10:56 am
You are so right. This has all taken far longer than I would have possibly imagined. So many changes, including moves, job changes, household disruption, illnesses in the family, etc. have made time fly by – and not in a good way for my projects. Every time I have to stop working on this for a few months, I have to relearn where I left off – and catch up to new changes in SL. It’s my hope to cram this through this winter before I have to stop again. Thanks so much for your patience.
Ronja Savage McKagan
December 6, 2014 at 5:31 am
Hey Fiona that will be great if you manage to come back in the winter.I hav all you Horses and iam falling in Love with your new Mesh projekt (the Friesian)because his height fit much better to me as the old one..i love my Frisian but the skin and shape designer build the avas to tall 🙂 take care and greetings to you..Ronja
Ronja Savage
December 6, 2014 at 5:33 am
Hey Fiona that will be great if you manage to come back in the winter.I hav all you Horses and iam falling in Love with your new Mesh projekt (the Friesian)because his height fit much better to me as the old one..i love my Frisian but the skin and shape designer build the avas to tall 🙂 take care and greetings to you..Ronja
Fiona Branagh
December 6, 2014 at 8:48 am
I am working on it as we speak! Fingers crossed that I can whip it out fast and don’t hit any major snags. Currently I am re-skinning, experimenting with the extra bones I can use. It should lead to more fluid animations and expressions if all goes well. I will be building in a wide range of sizes. I know it’s weird how folks are so determined to build out of scale in SL – the results of building things huge is that your land ends up seeming smaller! Who ever wanted that? People always seem to work against their own best interests. Thanks for the compliment and checking in with me!
Ronja Savage
December 8, 2014 at 1:24 pm
Thanks Fiona..thats great News