How to Create Bento Poses For Second Life In Blender 2.91 using Avastar (Updated 2021 Tutorial) 

Thank you so much! I'm glad it helped 😁

thank you! lol :D

Awh, you're most welcome! Good luck in your creative pursuits!! 🩷

Hiii, i showed how to create couples poses in the follow-up video to this one! sorry it took a long time to get out!

Glad I could help!

Sure thing! I'll get it out asap ❤️

Hiiii! I'm so sorry about that! Sometimes blender, based on your operating system and other factors, might look slightly different, yes. If this is the case, i'd just try and focus on the names of the bones. Important ones to mute are always the origin, and perhaps also the facial bones if you don't want a locked-in expression! And also i'n glad i was able to help a bit! ❤️❤️

Awh thank you for the kind feedback! I'm glad i was able to help 😁❤️

hiii, in my follow-up video to this video i believe i delved into how to delete specific bones so that only, for example, the arm bones get exported and subsequently animate inworld. i'd suggest checking that out as i think it'll answer your question! ♥

I'm so glad it was helpful!

Same question. All my bones are green! None red! I fear Avastar may be telling me I'm Swamp Thing. Please help me be normal.

Heya! If they aren't in the same colours as mine, then i'd say pay attention to the names. As long as the names are still correct, it should still function as intended ❤️

@@waretaSL I actually found an answer to this one! You go into your Preferences, then Animation, and down at F-Curves, turn on Channel Group Colors. If I'm not mistaken, that color-codes the bones.

@@cyandimi9069 Brilliant tip, thank you! And big thanks to Bambi too for fantastically presented tutorial!

@@nightowlcreative3615 Happy I could help!

hiii, sometimes there's a visibility bug in blender with this. exiting out of pose mode with ctrl + tab and then going back into it and re-selecting all with A can make the keyframes appear as intended. i hope this helps!

I think if you rotate the COG bone (centre of gravity) in blender, that should do the trick! Sometimes working with the pelvis/spine bones can also help though ❤️

Heyyy! Thanks so much! I'm glad you were able to follow along well ❤️❤️ in terms of using black dragon for poses: yes you can save them, but only locally for yourself to reuse, not for other people to purchase. And yes, black dragon can be quite graphics intensive haha

hiii, yes i'll try and get around to doing a tutorial on this as soon as possible! thank you for the suggestion ♥

Glad you liked it! ♥

Hiii! Breathing poses work super similarly to this! You just extend the loop time and add a few in-between highe and lows for the chest. I can definitely try and do a tutorial on that in the future though ❤️

Heyyy, i'm sorry it isn't working for you! Did you make sure to mute the origin and set all the keyframes, as well as check all the necessary buttons in the animation export panel?

@@waretaSL I went through the tutorial again just now, you are right I forgot to check and uncheck some things in the export panel !! It's working now! Seriously this video is amazing thank you so so much!

Hiii, unfortunately messing with the avastar body's shape can severely mess with the bones etc upon export, which is why i tend to urge people not to do so. unfortunately, for avatars with very different shapes from the "base model", the best way to go about creating poses is just through trial and error... i know this is a really annoying answer, but it's unfortunately just another one of SL's "quirks" due to it being a very old game... i'm really sorry i don't have a better solution for you! but i hope this helps some ♥

Hiii! This could be happening because you haven't set a keyframe for the pose yet (the location & rotation step). What i can suggest is maybe also activating auto-keying to avoid this! It's a little button at the top of the timeline panel that looks like a small diamond

Hiiii! Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it ❤️ Your issue might relate to the chest/collar bones. In order to achieve the desired rotated effect, you might have to activate those bones as well. I hope that helps a bit!

hiii, are you locking rotation AND location? or just rotation? sometimes blender does have a bug where the keyframes aren't visible for some reason... in my experience, the way to fix this is to deselect all the bones, tab out of pose mode, then tab back into pose mode and re-select all the bones. then they should all reappear in the keyframe panel. i hope this helps! ♥

Hey! I'm sorry to hear you're having troubles tweaking the pose 😭 just to clarify, what exactly do you mean with "resaving the original"? Like it saves it as a duplicate, or..?

@@waretaSL Yeah, it actually changes the Blender avatar back to the old pose and saves the first one I needed to edit. And I have to do "Undo" to go back to the edited version. I try to do Save As, but it keeps reverting it.

Hiii, i'm so glad this has helped you! Are you making sure to press A first to select all the bones? You need to hover your cursor in the 3D viewport when you do this and not hover it over the timeline, or else it won't select them.

@@waretaSL It worked! Again, thank you for being very descriptive in your videos! You are one of the very few that I have watched that thoroughly explains how to do things. 😊

​@waretaSL hi I have this same problem but I'm still not getting it to work for me ?

You are so welcome! ♥

Thanks, will do! ♥

hiii, the safest way to ensure that only these specific bones are being exported is to delete the keyframes from all other bones. the fastest way i can think of to do this would be to select the bones you DO want to export, then invert the selection with ctrl + shift + i (if i'm not wrong that should be the right shortcut) and then pressing delete whilst hovering over the keyframes panel. that way, the .anim can only export what's present, which is the keys you DO want to keep... i hope this helps! and sorry for the long wait on a response

no problem! glad you liked it :D

Hiiii! Hmm, what i could suggest is trying to use the "import" button for the pose in blender, and then exporting it again from the same panel? Maybe it'll allow for it. I'd suggest first importing the pose as an .anim or .bvh or MAYBE if it doesn't go weird, an .xml file. Hope this helps a bit ❤️

Hiiii ❤️ i wouldn't recommend not using the avastar default body when creating poses, as devkits can act a little... strange when it comes to exporting the pose and whatnot. What i would suggest instead is, for the poses where it's needed, to create an additional "curvy" version of the pose to include in the pose pack. It might take a bit of trial and error when it comes to uploading, which is also why i suggest using the beta grid. Another quick tip is first exporting as a .bvh so you don't have to pay to preview the pose inworld, before your final .anim export. Hope that helps ❤️

Hiiii! I think opensim is just a different viewer option? From my somewhat limited knowledge on the topic. The beta grid though is like... so when you log onto sl with your normal account, picture the beta grid as like a mirror version of that login. It works the same way, but it's on a sim in an "alternate dimension" kind of (as dumb as that sounds), where you are given a preset amount of lindens somewhere between 10k-16k usually. It's great for testing, but things like store locations etc won't be available, only weird default LL locations that are a bit like sandboxes. In order to gain access, you have to get in contact with LL either thru a ticket or live chat and manually request, as it isn't open to everyone by default like the "main" grid (where you login regularly) is. I hope this explains it a little bit?

Hey! So for rigging clothes for mesh bodies, you will still need that specific devkit. The avastar menu only helps with the rigging process once you have the correct rig. So for example, for maitreya you'd need the maitreya one, for legacy the legacy one, etc. It's unfortunate but yeah... i hope that helps though!

@@waretaSL Oh yeah that's right .. Thankssss

Hiii, yes i'll most likely be launching a class programme very soon! unfortunately i'm moving IRL at the moment so it'll probably have to wait for a little while. but thank you for your interest and patience! ♥

Hmm... have you tried making it last longer? If the duration is too short on loop, it might make it look that way yeah 😅

Hiii, you have to purchase the avastar addon and enable it in blender. I think i covered that part in one of my other tutorials but basically you download the zip and then in your blender preferences you go to addons > install and then select the zip (don't unzip it, blender just wants the zip file) and then you'll have access to it inside blender :) i hopw that helps!

Thank you so much 😀♥

You're so welcome! ♥

hiii, in order to access the beta grid you have to send a ticket to LL requesting access. Unfortunately they tend to take a while to respond and i *think* you need to have a pro membership, although nowadays with the changes they've made to their pro packages i'm not entirely sure... i'm sorry i can't be of much help on this! T_T but i hope this answer helps at least a little bit ♥

Hiii, yes you can definitely pose two avastar models in one blend file! To do so, just add in a second avastar rig and prepare/pose it the same way ❤️

@@waretaSL thanks!

Hiii, yes you can definitely pose two avastar models in one blend file! To do so, just add in a second avastar rig and prepare/pose it the same way ❤️

Hii! What do you mean with next line exactly?? If i want to make multiple poses in one blend file, i usually just add a second avastar rig 😊

@@waretaSL thanks that's what I wanted to know and please upload more videos is the first one which understood all the steps and I did my first pose with success. Thanks a lot

@@waretaSL Sorry, I have a question on that. If I wanted to use two models in one scene (if I'm using the phrasing right, brand newbie here), but want to save the animations each model does separately instead of in a single file, can I do that? I apologize if that's worded poorly or confusing.

Hiii, yes uploading .bvh is also possible although it doesn't come with as many priority/loop options which is why i don't personally upload that way. I do however test my poses before uploading through the bvh menu. In my follow-up video to this one, i showed some insight into this method! I hope this helps some ♥

Hmmm, did you remember to mute the origin and to loop the animation in the export settings?

Hiiii, no not at all! It works very similarly. To do so, just add in a second avastar rig and prepare/pose it the same way ❤️

Hi! No it hasn't changed ❤️ but at the moment the beta grid isn't actually working 100% anyway. I was planning on making an in-depth video on it but because of the issues with Aditi, i currently can't 😭😭

Hmmm. Did you make sure to mute the pose's origin and lock rotation & location?

@@waretaSL yeeah

A + I > Location Rotation ✓

you can get avastar for free. it doesnt work on the latest blender version, but if you use one slightly older it will work fine

@@YasmineSDJ i bit the bullet and got it.. on credit, but i'm sure the buyers remorse will fade the more I force myself to make more content with it. lets just hope i can clear the credit repayment soon!

That's straight up rude. She's giving all info a complete beginner would need to know, if you're not one then simply jump through the video and try to find the parts you don't know about without talking sh*t in the comments :)

You wrote: "and its makes more boring your voice". That's some messed up grammar. You really need to work on your English. It's quite poor. But thanks.