Dear customers, Avastar lovers (and haters), not yet purchasers, longtime fans, sparrows..
It may be too early to ask you about your experience with the new Avastar-2 release, but Avastar in general has been around for 5 years and I believe it’s time to collect some user voices.
We ask you today:
- What do you like (or dislike) most about Avastar?
- Has it helped you, or let you down?
- Do you use the tool a lot or not so much?
- …
We’re looking to get some base opinions about what we do here.
Whatever comes to mind about our product, just let us know here on this page.
Thank you for any contribution, especially when you point us to areas where we still need to improve!
Sincerely,
Gaia
from the Avastar team
I like Avastar, sure. I use Avastar just for rigging and I don’t mind to rig without it.
As cloth designer I would appreciate a “presets” for rigging in a easy way for most common bodymeshes “Signature, SLink, Belleza, Maitreya and Tmp… male and female.
The Development Kits the bodymesh creator supply (most cases they don’t supply it) are not up to date with Avastar and it’s a mess.
For this reason didn’t move to Avastar 2.0.. there is no way to bind the armatures supplied by bodymeshe creators to Avastar 2.0 without becoming crazy.
perhaps a good tutorial could also help us.
Regards
I only use it to make animations, since I bought it I could not do a full mesh avatar…. i really like it, but some tutorials need to be updated, they have years here but Avastar keeps updating. (Thanks for that)
I have been using avastar since 2012 for poses,animations and rigging for SL, it is constantly developed and improved ever since, best software i ever bought and well worth supporting.
The community is always helpful and there are lots of tutorials on youtube.
Keep up the good work avastar team!
Avastar is the go to tool for working with Blender and animations, clothing, avatars for SL. I’m very happy with it. So often see people in other inworld groups trying to achieve things that Avastar will “just do” but yet they refuse to purchase because it has a cost but a very cheap one at that. Unfortunately because Blender is free, they’re in the mentality that everything to go with it should be free.
I have no complaints, the software just works, when it has quirks there’s excellent inworld support.
I use Avastar regularly for rigged mesh and animations. If blender is your preferred modelling tool, Avastar is worth the price. And if you use something else but are having problems with weighing or bento animations for SL, I suggest watching some videos of people doing those things with Avastar. You might decide it’s time to try a new tool!
You’ve been open minded and welcomed a crazy number of feature requests while working toward v2. Broken things have been fixed quickly when we tell you about them.
I appreciate that tutorials and instructions tend to include text or CC. I wish there were more, and they were more up to date, but you’ve been busy getting to 2.1 and Medhue takes requests (grin!) The Blender Avastar group also helps fill in the gaps.