Kennylex Luckless
I seen something few think about in the #metaverseif we now want to call it that, but #LindenLab (LL) is far ahead when it come to avatars.
In #VRChat #MetaWorlds #Resonite you are restricted to one avatar that scan select premade clothes, or you have one avatar that have some few clothes built in.
But in #Secondlife and #Sansar that was made by LL you can dress your avatar so it is easy to make it very personal.
Nov 20, 2023 at 6:03pmWeb
Show threadDyneNov 23, 2023

@kennylex It's been years and years since I looked at SL, but as I recall back in the day they were able to do that because standard avatars used the same basic model; you could distribute textures as "clothes" and they would always be compatible because they all followed the standard model's UV layout. The rest was by attaching prims; similar can be done today.

Modern apps allow for arbitrary avatar models, which means UV maps and thus textures are unlikely to be compatible between avatars.

Show threadDyneNov 23, 2023

@kennylex

I'm unsure what you mean by "restricted to one avatar" in Resonite. Much like VRChat, it's very possible -- even common -- to accumulate dozens of them. In my first 17 hours or so, I've already gotten around 20 from the community, and uploaded three of my own.

Unlike VRChat, it's also fairly easy to personalize them, because you can do most of it in-world without needing Unity. As I was saying earlier today, that reminds me of SL.

Show threadKennylex LucklessNov 23, 2023

@Dyne In Second Life you can find an avatar you like, it will look the same for all users, but it is easy in SL to modify this avatar by dressing it, change proportion, length and so on, also have a wardrobe so dress how I want.
But in VRChat when I find an avatar I like, there is no easy way for me to make it wear a hat or a helmet.

In Resonite it is easy to upload your own things but still rather tricky to wear things. It is still possible but not as easy and flexible as in SL.

Show threadDyneNov 23, 2023

@kennylex Agree on VRChat; it's possible but hard.

Last night in Resonite I walked into a world, picked up a hat and a bow tie, and just put them in place on my avatar. I even arranged the hat at a jaunty angle. Both stayed where I put them. No UI needed, not even a menu.

I was in VR, though, where that sort of thing is as intuitive as in IRL. I imagine it'd be somewhat trickier to do on desktop.

I can save the modified avatar to my inv, then load it with those accessories already in place.

Show threadKennylex LucklessNov 23, 2023
@Dyne I found them also and could stick them to my avatar, but if I want a t-shirt or dungarees it is not so easy, some avatars come with built in clothes but that is not the same thing.
We also need to remember that #Secondlife been around for 20 years while Resonite is still in beta, much can happen when Resonite gettin up in age.