Medhue and Gaia’s position is the problems are small enough that advantages seriously out weight them. So, the short version of the problem is if both your shape slider and an animation move a bone, called translation – it’s a math thing about position, there can be a conflict and possible problem. He compares animations and shapes both with and without translation. Medhue’s video shows a good set of examples of what can and cannot be done with animations depending on what the final Bento model is. Gaia give a good explanation of the problem along with the instructions. Instructions for testing are in the release announcement, link above. (URL to Linden Lab’s Amazon repository.) Notice the current Bento Project Viewer is version 5.34 (as of 12:30 PM 7/7/16).Īlso, use this latest AvaStar Alpha-4 release to build an animation with rotation and translation. To play with the proposed alternative one must use Vir Linden’s Test Bento Viewer version 5.05 – download.
Gaia feels the shape slider problem is not that bad. The concern is that Shape Sliders will break animations. If you are animating in SL, read the thing to understand what is coming. See the release announcement for a longer story or below the fold for the shorter version. But, there are concerns about the Bento plan to allow rotation and translation. Gaia says this alpha version of AvaStar complies with the current proposed Bento model that includes rotation and translation. The video by Medhue shows and explains what is being talked about. In the announcement Gaia explains the current problem people are debating. This is the Alpha version with Bento support.
Gaia Clary announced another update of AvaStar 2 is out.