The latest Second Life Development Viewer has avatar physics enabled!! Hamlet blogged about it on NWN, and there’s even a video tutorial if you guys want to check it out.
I had so much fun playing with the new avatar physics, I even made a lil’ video and threw it on YouTube. I haven’t done that in almost two years, so my video didn’t turn out quite as nice as I had hoped, but I hope you guys can see clearly how natural and amazing and FUN this will be for SL residents. Even if you don’t want extreme bounce, this new physics layer have sliders for you to control as much or as little bounce as you want.
If you want a copy of my physics layer, it is available for FREE on Marketplace or at my shop in SL.
You can follow the tutorial on NWN to create your own physics layer, or grab a copy of mine and just wear. Be sure to use the latest SL Dev Viewer, or a compatible Third Party Viewer (TPV).
Second Life’s Knowledge Base also has a step-by-step tutorial on Enhanced Avatar Physics that includes pictures!
UPDATE April 14th, 2011: If you purchased my Juicy Physics package before 9PMSLT today, there is an error in the Breasts Bounce: Max Effect setting. It should *not* be set to 0! For a lil bounce, set it to 25 and for max bounce, set it to 65 or higher.
I just replaced it with an updated package on Marketplace.
Also, Second Life has added Avatar Physics to the latest Second Life Beta Viewer (Second Life 2.6.3 (225685)) too! It is no longer limited to just the Development viewer.
note: For some reason, SL has been resetting the Breast Bounce > Max Effect setting! For a lil bounce, set it to 25 and for max bounce, set it to 65 or higher.
This is pretty amazing, closest I’ve seen yet.
This is so gorgeous. I’m just wondering though how you got your lips so small? I have the Alex V3 with the Kiyomi applier, but my lips are still very wide and even with the applier it looks nothing close to your pictures. I’m a bit confused, I guess!
What I do is use the lips with parted mouth, to get that smaller look. The lips on Alex are wider than I would prefer too, but hopefully a future update will include some new expressions with smaller lips. Mix and match your eyes/lips to achieve different expressions!
Ah! I figured it out. I didn’t realize that you could control the lips and the eyes separately. Much better!
Hopefully an update in the future will allow us to adjust the heads much like we can adjust the mesh bodies. That would be a dream come true.
Thanks for the tips!
Hmm I have bought the Alex Head and the PF applier, but the PF applier won’t apply anything on my head. I have tried several times to restart Firestorm, clear cache. Changed locations.. I know the HUD says it can be a bit slow but I don’t think it’s supposed to take like 30 minutes right?xD
Are you wearing the OMEGA version? It’s usually “instant” — so 30 minutes does not sound right!
Did you get the Omega system Logo applier off the MP and are you wearing the Omega version of the head? You need both and you have to click the omega hud before you can click the optons on the PF hud.
May I ask what eyes you use? 😀
MayFly eyes