04-23-2025, 07:28 AM
Hi showbis, and all
Yeah so part of what I do is piece out large jobs to various contractors. The guy passed legit as far as a coder goes, it was just the the excuse of rl coming up and working two jobs magically appeared out of nowhere. I have a lot of respect for peeps that spend years developing hardcore skills in any field, but sometime you gotta say "Hey you know you just got out-performed by a casual gamer who has *name of someody not related to CBC* coding experience yeah?". And to be totally honest, chatGPT has been instrumental in learning LSL. As a matter of fact, I've developed the whole project using chatGPT. The conversation has carried on for weeks now to the point where I call it CG for short and it calls me bossman (freaky I know).
You live and you learn...what can I say.
For the animations phase (for anyone else in the same doesn't-know-s**t condition I'm in) , I bought some baseline animations from various vendors, and got some others via email from another player. These anim files I ran through Anim2BVHbento (free downloadable tool), did minor tweaks, run it through BVHacker, and then run it through QAvimator. It works great with basic skeletons, so you have to delete all of the fingers and extra joints that bento has (again didnt even know what bento was at this point).
I'd be totally cool flat-out buy Avastar (reminds me of an class I took in 2001 for 3D Studio Max), but from what I understand its a plug-in for Blender. The issue being I'm stuck with Blender 2.83 and I have no idea if Avastar will work with it (my pc doesnt like msi installation files so I cant use the newer versions of Blender).
For anyone else reading this, I've realized SL is basically a black hole of creativity. Its like "here is some base code, pay me to play it, and all you players finish the development...and pay me to upload your work too, but you cant get it back"
With enough work, I will release this thing by the end of May
Yeah so part of what I do is piece out large jobs to various contractors. The guy passed legit as far as a coder goes, it was just the the excuse of rl coming up and working two jobs magically appeared out of nowhere. I have a lot of respect for peeps that spend years developing hardcore skills in any field, but sometime you gotta say "Hey you know you just got out-performed by a casual gamer who has *name of someody not related to CBC* coding experience yeah?". And to be totally honest, chatGPT has been instrumental in learning LSL. As a matter of fact, I've developed the whole project using chatGPT. The conversation has carried on for weeks now to the point where I call it CG for short and it calls me bossman (freaky I know).
You live and you learn...what can I say.
For the animations phase (for anyone else in the same doesn't-know-s**t condition I'm in) , I bought some baseline animations from various vendors, and got some others via email from another player. These anim files I ran through Anim2BVHbento (free downloadable tool), did minor tweaks, run it through BVHacker, and then run it through QAvimator. It works great with basic skeletons, so you have to delete all of the fingers and extra joints that bento has (again didnt even know what bento was at this point).
I'd be totally cool flat-out buy Avastar (reminds me of an class I took in 2001 for 3D Studio Max), but from what I understand its a plug-in for Blender. The issue being I'm stuck with Blender 2.83 and I have no idea if Avastar will work with it (my pc doesnt like msi installation files so I cant use the newer versions of Blender).
For anyone else reading this, I've realized SL is basically a black hole of creativity. Its like "here is some base code, pay me to play it, and all you players finish the development...and pay me to upload your work too, but you cant get it back"
With enough work, I will release this thing by the end of May
