Fingers

Does anyone know of a free program to make a pose in which you can manipulate the fingers?

There are currently no joints in the fingers for animation uploads to influence, so you are stuck with the default hand position settings offered in the upload dialog.

It would be awesome if LL opened up animations to include fingers and morphs, but I haven't heard anything regarding any of that opening up to developer access.

Well fudge. I've seen someone making the peace sign and such, how do you think they did that? With some uber expensive program?

no, there are a few built in hand poses. you can choose which one is put with the animation at the time you upload. but due to some persistent SL issues, it's not guaranteed the hand pose will even work.

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1793

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The peace sign is one of the default hand positions you can choose when uploading an animation into SL. You can choose from a selection of simple defaults, like, fist, point, type, spread, relaxed - but there is an outstanding issue with them - as Darien has posted.

There are more joints in the fingers than there are in the rest of the body, so I don't think they'll ever give us fine control over them. It would increase the size of the animation files significantly.

Is it also possible that SL's avatar animation standards are as outdated as the mesh?

No, that's impossible!

They are working on a 200 bone skeleton for the avatar with scripted control of joints. Just wait til that comes...

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Puppeteering

http://www.avatarpuppeteering.com/

negativland's 'four fingers'...

"I am a man, a man with four fingers,
A man with four fingers on my hand;
I am a man, a man with four fingers,
But that doesn't count my thumb.

I am a man, a man with three fingers,
A man with three fingers on my hand;
I am a man, a man with three fingers,
But that doesn't count my index finger...
or my thumb.

I am a man, a man with two fingers,
A man with two fingers on my hand;
I am a man, a man with two fingers,
But that doesn't count my middle finger,
my index finger...
or my thumb.

I am a man, a man with one finger,
A man with one finger on my hand;
I am a man, a man with one finger,
But that doesn't count my ring finger,
my middle finger,
my index finger...
or my thumb.

(whistling solo)

I am a man, a man with no fingers,
A man with no fingers on my hand;
I am a man, a man with no fingers,
But that doesn't count my pinky
or my ring finger,
my middle finger,
my index finger...
or my thumb."

That sounds interesting. Hopefully they fix the asset servers, databases and constant crashes first though, huh?

We can only dream

Bottom of the page:

"Project in hibernation so that developers have time to devote to projects that increase Second Life's stability and performance

Retrieved from "http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Puppeteering"

It's hibernated through a few winters. most of that Wiki future release stuff is from a puppeteer demo done in 2006.

You guys just want to be able to flip off the Lindens.

P2