#Second life bento skeleton animation update#
#Second life bento skeleton animation simulator#

The former have already been deployed to the grid, being the вЂњsecretвЂќ update made in week #48, alongside the need validation enforcements for attachment point IDs and to prevent the upload of animations and meshes weighted to invalid attachment points however, they are not yet active.

#Second life bento skeleton animation simulator#

The changes involve both simulator updates and changes to the viewer.

13 new attachment points associated with the new bones.

2 other new bones in the head for animating ears or antennae.

30 bones in the hands (all 10 fingers!).

11 extra limb bones for wings, additional arms, or extra legs.In particular, Bento sees the introduction of the following Skeleton extensions: It has also involved SL content creators including (but not limited to) the folk from Avastar, Cathy Foil, Toady Nakamura, Siddean Munro, Tyr Rozenblum, and Flea Bussy Project Bento has involved staff from Linden Lab, notably Troy Linden, Oz Linden and Vir Linden, together with assistance from Alexa Linden, Simon Linden, Rider Linden, Aura Linden and others. We are introducing extensions to the standard Second Life Avatar Skeleton that give you dozens of new bones to support both rigging and animation, and accompanying new attachment points! This extended skeleton, which is fully backward compatible with existing avatars, rigging and animation, gives creators the power to build more sophisticated avatars than ever before. Get ready for the biggest thing thatвЂ™s happened to avatars in years вЂ¦Д®ver wish you could incorporate a tail, wings, or second set of arms into your avatar? How about having animations for facial expressions and finger movements? Yes, we know that there are some incredibly creative workarounds that give you some of these, but they canвЂ™t leverage skeletal animation, so they have been very complex, often fragile, and very expensive in performance and resources both in your Viewer and the Simulator. While we want to make improvements, we also want to maximize backward compatibility. We know how much work, value, personalization and emotional investment goes into a Second Life avatar, so we have always been careful when considering avatar changes.

The blog post announcing Project Bento explains the reason and focus of the work thus: IвЂ™ve been fortunate enough to be very peripherally involved in the project myself, with the aim of documenting some of the process involved вЂ“ and IвЂ™ll be providing more on that in an upcoming article. The project has been in progress for the last several months, with the Lab working in collaboration with a number of noted Second Life content creators who specialise in avatar shapes, bodies, and animations. On Wednesday, December 16th Linden Lab officially announced Project Bento which brings a range of avatar skeleton enhancements to Second Life.