re:more Croquet movies of the new improved avatars/motion

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re:more Croquet movies of the new improved avatars/motion

David Faught
Mark P. McCahill wrote:
>We can now import better avatars and animations into Croquet
>because there is now support for BVH pose/motion files for
>avatars.
...
>How to update your Croquet image:
>http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu/croquet/croquetMovies/updateToMotion.mov

First of all, congratulations and thanks to you and your team for putting this added capability together!

This does prompt a few questions though:
1.  Is the method you describe in this movie for updating an image the proper and preferred method, or is it one of a few available that happened to work for these updates?
2.  Does this mean that the update stream won't be used?
3.  Should I save this updated image replacing my normal image, or as a new version?
4.  Are there some updated Monticello packages that should not be part of my normal image?
5.  Is there going to be a place to share content such as legally shareable meshes, textures, and animation files with the Croquet community?
6.  After updating my image as you describe, I noticed that there are now some Robot entries in the menus.  Are these functional?  I had a little trouble when I tried them.

Maybe I am being a little too literal minded with some of this, but I am a curious sort.