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This page is dedicated for creating a starting point for OpenSimulator avatars. The idea is to create one or more base models with blender which can be used as basis for Avatar modeling.
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Avatar is one of the most important immersion factors. To help the community to start creating high quality avatars we need your help to get the effort started. If you have any improvement ideas or corrections please fix this page.
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This page is dedicated for creating a proposal that can act as a starting point for OpenSimulator avatars. The idea is to create one or more base models with blender which can be used as basis for Avatar modeling.
  
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Use blender to create the avatar.
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Avatar is one of the most important immersion factors. To help the community to start creating high quality avatars we need your help to get the effort started. If you have any improvement ideas or corrections please fix this page. You can join the project by registering to the following discussion group and requesting for content repository commit rights: [http://groups.google.com/group/open-content-for-metaverse Open Content for Metaverse]
  
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Use the following bone structure:
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Nice tutorials about using Blender to do avatar poses and animations. The biped model used in these tutorials is available as basis for further work at the model repository:
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* [http://download.blender.org/demo/movies/dvd anim/Rattling Bones preview.mov Posing]
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* [http://download.blender.org/demo/movies/dvd anim/Workflow preview.mov Animating]
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* [http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Animation/MoCap Creating an Animation Library from BVH files]
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Oh and we want to figure out how to play these with our avies: [http://mocap.cs.cmu.edu/movies.php CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database]
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More bvh animations can be made with [http://www.qavimator.org/ Qavimator].
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Make Human is a project which can be used to create human avatar models. Combination of non linden based clients and OpenSimulator could support MakeHuman avatars directly: [http://www.makehuman.org/ MakeHuman]
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== Model Repository ==
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Model repository is available as google project:
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http://code.google.com/p/open-content-for-metaverse/source/browse/#svn/trunk/Models/Avatars/Biped/
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* I added Nathan Vegdahl's [http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=131079 public domain biped].blend as starting point for Avatar Modeling. - Tommi
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** Bone structure can be studied under overwiew/current scene/rig/armature
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** IK stands for inverse kinematics.
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** GZM stands for gizmo and refers to meshes which are helper clases for bone visualization.
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[[Image:Biped.png‎]]
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* Alice:
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[[Image:Alice.jpg]]
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== Best Practices ==
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* Use blender to create the avatar.
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge loops Edge loops] based topology.
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* [http://zoomy.net/2008/04/02/modeling-with-edge-loops/ Modeling with Edge Loops] at Zoomy.net.
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[[Image:edgeloops2.jpg]]
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* Rational polygon count.
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* Use the default bone structure or update the default bone structure.
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== Default Bone Structure ==
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If you need more bones to achieve good result feel free to insert them here. Not all bones are necessarily needed and custom bones may be added to models. Viewers are more likely to support steering default bones.
  
 
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         RightFinger4-RightFinger41-RightFinger42-RightFinger4Nub
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   L_Thigh-L_Calf-L_Foot-L_Toe0-L_Toe0Nub (Connected to Spine)
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   LeftThigh-LeftCalf-LeftFoot-LeftToe0-LeftToe0Nub (Connected to Spine)
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== TODO ==
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This task list contains tasks which need doing. Please add more tasks and claim tasks for yourself. If this list gets actively used we will probably move it to the google project issue tracking.
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* Edit the biped.blend to follow the bone structure naming convention and possibly add missing bones. It is also possible to edit the default bone structure to better reflect the biped.blend if it is more reasonable. (Task not claimed.)
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* LaeMing Ai has a rather involved wishlist page for OS avatars on her home site here: [http://home.exetel.com.au/impact/VRwishlist-avatarforms.shtml Proposal for new avatar body shapes]
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== Exporting from Blender to OpenSimulator ==
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The current proposal is that Blender files (.blend) will be exported to Collada format and stored as binary assets to OpenSimulator. Collada files can then be converted by client views or Viewers to browser specific formats.
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== See also ==
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[[Avatar]]
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RuthAndRoth Project - Ruth2 and Roth2 open source mesh avatars - https://github.com/RuthAndRoth

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This page is dedicated for creating a proposal that can act as a starting point for OpenSimulator avatars. The idea is to create one or more base models with blender which can be used as basis for Avatar modeling.

Avatar is one of the most important immersion factors. To help the community to start creating high quality avatars we need your help to get the effort started. If you have any improvement ideas or corrections please fix this page. You can join the project by registering to the following discussion group and requesting for content repository commit rights: Open Content for Metaverse

Nice tutorials about using Blender to do avatar poses and animations. The biped model used in these tutorials is available as basis for further work at the model repository:

Oh and we want to figure out how to play these with our avies: CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database

More bvh animations can be made with Qavimator.

Make Human is a project which can be used to create human avatar models. Combination of non linden based clients and OpenSimulator could support MakeHuman avatars directly: MakeHuman

[edit] Model Repository

Model repository is available as google project:

http://code.google.com/p/open-content-for-metaverse/source/browse/#svn/trunk/Models/Avatars/Biped/

  • I added Nathan Vegdahl's public domain biped.blend as starting point for Avatar Modeling. - Tommi
    • Bone structure can be studied under overwiew/current scene/rig/armature
    • IK stands for inverse kinematics.
    • GZM stands for gizmo and refers to meshes which are helper clases for bone visualization.

Biped.png

  • Alice:

Alice.jpg

[edit] Best Practices

Edgeloops2.jpg

  • Rational polygon count.
  • Use the default bone structure or update the default bone structure.

[edit] Default Bone Structure

If you need more bones to achieve good result feel free to insert them here. Not all bones are necessarily needed and custom bones may be added to models. Viewers are more likely to support steering default bones. 

Root
 Pelvis
  Spine
   Spine1
    Spine2
     Spine3
      Neck-Neck1-Neck2-Neck3-Head
       LeftClavicle-LeftUpperArm-LeftForearm-LeftHand
        LeftFinger0-LeftFinger01-LeftFinger02-LeftFinger0Nub
        LeftFinger1-LeftFinger11-LeftFinger12-LeftFinger1Nub
        LeftFinger2-LeftFinger21-LeftFinger22-LeftFinger2Nub
        LeftFinger3-LeftFinger31-LeftFinger32-LeftFinger3Nub
        LeftFinger4-LeftFinger41-LeftFinger42-LeftFinger4Nub
       RightClavicle-RightUpperArm-RightForearm-RightHand
        RightFinger0-RightFinger01-RightFinger02-RightFinger0Nub
        RightFinger1-RightFinger11-RightFinger12-RightFinger1Nub
        RightFinger2-RightFinger21-RightFinger22-RightFinger2Nub
        RightFinger3-RightFinger31-RightFinger32-RightFinger3Nub
        RightFinger4-RightFinger41-RightFinger42-RightFinger4Nub
   LeftThigh-LeftCalf-LeftFoot-LeftToe0-LeftToe0Nub (Connected to Spine)
   RightThigh-RightCalf-RightFoot-RightToe0-RightToe0Nub (Connected to Spine)

[edit] TODO

This task list contains tasks which need doing. Please add more tasks and claim tasks for yourself. If this list gets actively used we will probably move it to the google project issue tracking.

  • Edit the biped.blend to follow the bone structure naming convention and possibly add missing bones. It is also possible to edit the default bone structure to better reflect the biped.blend if it is more reasonable. (Task not claimed.)

[edit] Exporting from Blender to OpenSimulator

The current proposal is that Blender files (.blend) will be exported to Collada format and stored as binary assets to OpenSimulator. Collada files can then be converted by client views or Viewers to browser specific formats.

[edit] See also

Avatar

RuthAndRoth Project - Ruth2 and Roth2 open source mesh avatars - https://github.com/RuthAndRoth

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