But it has an interesting use in detailing parts of mesh clothes. This too is for cloth more than for clothes. Simply Micromesh – Individual License: US$27 So I am concerned the developer is not going to provide future updates. Modeling Cloth – Individual License: FREE – DONATIONįree software. With the misnaming, I also ran into problems with AvaStar, which may or may not have been folder name-related. Not a difficult fix but it does not sort into the list of Blender folders the way I expected. The portable version does not unzip/install the same as other versions. I emailed the author and asked about the demo.Ībout 36 hours later I got an answer. Using 2.93.1 the install was not reporting errors but I couldn’t get it working and the warning ‘written for 3.00’ popped up. Installing the addon in Blender 3.1.2 resulted in a series of errors with the demo. There is a free demo and the manual is online. Simply Cloth – Individual License: US$33 to $80 Most 2.9x Blender stuff works in the 3.x versions. Everything is updating so with any luck this one will update soon. Gumroad’s Garment Tool Addon – Individual License: US$40 The cost will eat up all my profits as I don’t make or sell that much in SL. I am passing on this as the only use I have for MD is for making SL clothes. Meaning the only way to know which version of Blender or addon to use is determined by experiment. From what I can tell whether you can use various things with the latest Blender or have to use the specified version depends on what you are doing. Marvelous Designer – Individual License: US$39/mo. My other considerations for this update are (234 articles as of 5/2022)īlender and AvaStar are the basic tools for SL developers, at least for me. Or you can go through my old posts in the category: Clothes Skins Etc. But, that work has been done and the result is in AvaStar, which includes the SL Classic avatar model. Way back when I went through ‘how to find the SL avatar model’ and which was the best source. (See .)ĪvaStar solves the initial problem of where to find the Classic avatar body made by SL. While not required, AvaStar simplifies the process and handles gotchas that are a pain to learn about and remember to deal with. To adapt Blender specifically to SL modeling the standard addon is AvaStar. The ubiquitous tool for 3D modeling by Second Life people is Blender (free – donation appreciated – All previous Blender versions are here). Slink people in Discord talk about some clean-up work needed for things made with MD. For me, the big drawback is the cost of MD. Design is done in MD and then transferred to Blender where the design is tweaked and rigged to the various brands of bodies. The Cadillac of clothing design tools is Marvelous Designer (MD). Not all of it is specifically for clothes or Second Life, but some of those tools have possible uses for those of us playing in and modeling for SL.
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