When i created my first Mesh Avatar the Avastar plugin for Blender was for me a bit unstable. I’ve rigged characters for animating in blender many times but when it comes to second life the whole weighting for fitted mesh and other technical garbage that needs to be done gives cause for anxiety. So now we are in 2017 i have started looking at Bento or more specifically Avastar 2.0. Perhaps the Drax Files should have waited a year before showcasing Bento as the case always seems to be that Linden Lab introduce a feature, the community goes wild, then Linden Lab take a year or two to finally release said feature to a community thats long forgotten about it. I myself decided middle of last year not to jump on the Bento Bandwagon until the project was complete, and chose instead to push all thoughts of Bento to 2017. Would you like to see more info included? Let me know.Īlways feel free to use the comment section.The Beginning of last year the big news about second life was the new BENTO avatar feature allowing creators the ability to rig mesh avatars with facial expressions and hand gestures. CATWA Mic Talk anim3 ĭo you have a CATWA head? Tell me what you think.Īre there questions you have that I didn’t answer? Ask away!.Extra animations tend to be addons instead of included like some other heads have.While BOM compatible, it does not include any BOM skins.

Other pros and cons to consider that haven’t been mentioned above. – NoĪdditional Neck Sizing Options – Yes HUD Click to view HUD at actual size Pros and Cons Universal Neck Standard ? When used with the same skin tone, heads and bodies both using the Universal Neck Standard result in a seamless neck. Materials Enabled – Yes (skin and lips controlled independently) Included Gestures – Yes (3 for voice chat, 40 additional boxed) Appliers, BOM, and Compatibility

Typing/Voice Animations – Yes (8 options)įacial Animations –Yes (24 expression and 17 full face AOs) Piercings –Tongue piercing Expressions & Animations Lashes – Yes (8 options each for upper and lower lashes) Teeth –Yes (Plain, Braces, Gems, plus 13 different mouth/teeth options in main HUD) Makeup (Applier) – Yes (5 eyes, 5 blush, 21 lips) Skin – Yes (14 Clef de Peau, 6 Gianni, 6 Niramyth) For more mesh heads and bodies head on over to The Mesh Directory. Other heads may have slightly different content. Almost all the information also applies to the other CATWA bento mesh heads, however the photos are only of Daniel, and the list is what comes with Daniel. This is an overview of the CATWA Daniel mesh head for Second Life avatars.

Second life bento mesh face