Wow! ^_^ Amazing work, Cobalt! :3 One must ask, what program did you use to make this?

3ds max

I'm personally just waiting till it's fully implemented before I'll mess with it, but from everything they've said, if you setup the skeleton with the same bone names and around the same shape, you can use all the default animations from SL. Whether that actually works isn't something I've read info on. I've tried making some poser animations for SL and they just came out as disasters so I gave up in frustration, I'm hoping it's not a necessity.

Also I'll be interested to see if you can model clothes and get it to work on the body like the painted on texture layers they currently use.

I intend to see if that's possible as well. the clothes on my cobalt model are separate objects. But, I went ahead and UV mapped him so I could paint clothes on if needed, just to be on the safe side.

Nice shiny!

Man... haven't been on Second Life in forever...

O: thats epic, I wanted to try it, but 2.0 never rezzes my avatar xP

Wow, that's turned out well, makes my 'all primitives' AV look downright clunky.

On 2.0 my fav feature is shadows so far, it adds sooo much to the realism.

you mean the actual avatar body mesh can be put in any shape :D

Well, yes and no. The original SL avatar is still there. you'd just use the new alpha masks to make it invisible, then you'd wear a rigged body as an attachment, overtop it. the bones in the rigged attachment would auto-align with the bones in the SL avatar, so it would move with the avatar. At least that's the idea.

Wow. Very nice hun. Man. The more and more I see SL doing the more my vintage 2004 avatar seems so dated!

If only our real selves were so easily upgraded...

Nice work! Hope I'll get to see it / you skating at Xanadu one day, maybe.

Second Life has added mesh support? Not just sculpti-prims but full-mesh support?

Lookin' good anyway!

Mesh import is only on the beta grid, and only in a set of mesh-enabled sims. It's in beta-testing, with rumors saying it won't hit the main grid until December.

Ahh. Well, will it be visible to all players? I remember they released a viewer that would let you put invisible textures on the body, instead of using invisiprims, but that it wouldn't work on the old viewer, so people using the classic viewer would be stuck seeing two bodies. o.o

Dunno. That depends on if the TPV manufacturers add the code to their viewers.

TPV?

Third-Party Viewers

Oh! But, I thought that the classic first party viewer was also not going to be updated? It was only going to be Viewer2 or whatever they called it, that had that functionality.

Dunno.

GOD, that is a sexy bear!

Is there a waiting period once you log onto the grid? I get as far as uploading then when I click upload, nothing happens.

you have to be in the right sim. check your map and look for a group of sims with the word "mesh" in their names. Mesh city, mesh sandbox, etc...

Yea, that didn't do too good, I used the map and searched it but nothing came up. I just went to SL's site and from there, I end up at Sandbox #33 from their list of mesh enabled sims.
After running around that sim trying to find a rez spot, I went through all the instructions (after troubleshooting why my models wouldn't show up in the preview screen at first) I prep it properly then hit upload. Then some text showing progress in the bottom right corner of the screen pops up, once it goes away so does the uploader screen but no new folder titled mesh or anything. This is quickly becoming tedious >.>

Is there some waiting limit I have to go through first before being able to upload mesh objects? I recall reading somehting about after changing your passcode that after 24hrs I could use it... rather does not make any sense as to why I have to change a passcode inorder to import my account to mesh grid..

when a mesh uploads, you should end up with an object in your object folder.

Ah, see this is what makes me think something isn't right here, SL is saying it is supposed to make a new folder (if it is the first 'successful' upload) labeled 'Mesh' that all mesh uploads go to.

Did you have to change your passcode just to import your av into the aidit grid?

nope. updating your passcode is just a quickie way to get your inventory updated. the beta grid tends to use an inventory backup that's several months, to a year out of date. Changing your passcode should get you a fresh copy of your current inventory.

Which mesh sim are you in?

According to the sim itself, 'Julio Danick, Tender Love - Moderate'
I was zapped here after clicking Sandbox 33 on SL's mesh compatible sims list page

ah ok. you're not in a mesh sim, then. there's something going on with a couple of the mesh sims at the moment. I think 33 may be down. try teleporting to Mesh Sandbox 22. I know that one's up. I'm in it.

I'll give it a shot, thanks :D