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Want to bring custom animations created in Poser with you into Second Life, so your avatar can use them? It’s so simple, there’s a selection in SL’s pulldown menu for it. We asked content expert Ben Linden to walk us through the rest of the process:
1) Open Poser and make your animation. (Resident Urlika Zugzwang has a great tutorial on her website)
2) Once finished, Export the animation in Poser as a BVH Motion file. (File > Export > BVH Motion.)
3) Launch Second Life, and from the File dropdown menu, choose Upload Animation. Once you’ve selected the appropriate BVH animation file, a window will pop up that allows you to preview it.
4) In the preview window, you can change the priority of the animation. (Because an avatar can play more than one animation at a time, there are times when the system needs to know which animation to play first.)
5) You can also choose to make the animation loop, by checking the "Loop" box. You can even opt to loop just a subset of the animation by changing the In and Out percentages.
6) If you want your animation associated with a facial gesture or hand pose, you can incorporate that in the preview window, as well. Choose one of each from the "Hand Pose" and "Expression" dropdown menus.
7) Animations in SL are blended together to prevent sudden avatar “popping” movements. You can choose how much time is spent blending in and out of your animation with the Ease In and Ease Out options.
8) Once you are happy with your edited animation, hit the Upload button in the preview window to complete the upload into Second Life. It will automatically be put in your character’s inventory. Now it’s there for you to use with your avatar, and to sell/give away to others, as well!
(Feel free to forward this tutorial to the Poser users in your first life, to show them how easy it is to take their smooth moves into a new world.) |
