From 4dae01a69c7bafbb10639212640340941adc7e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Howard Stearns <howard@highfidelity.io>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:54:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Provide a consistent avatar default for the empty string.

---
 interface/src/avatar/MyAvatar.cpp | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/interface/src/avatar/MyAvatar.cpp b/interface/src/avatar/MyAvatar.cpp
index 05bfac1523..ddc0b0b9d1 100644
--- a/interface/src/avatar/MyAvatar.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/avatar/MyAvatar.cpp
@@ -999,9 +999,10 @@ void MyAvatar::useFullAvatarURL(const QUrl& fullAvatarURL, const QString& modelN
         setFaceModelURL(QString());
     }
 
-    if (fullAvatarURL != getSkeletonModelURL()) {
+    const QString& urlString = fullAvatarURL.toString();
+    if (urlString.isEmpty() || (fullAvatarURL != getSkeletonModelURL())) {
         setSkeletonModelURL(fullAvatarURL);
-        UserActivityLogger::getInstance().changedModel("skeleton", fullAvatarURL.toString());
+        UserActivityLogger::getInstance().changedModel("skeleton", urlString);
     }
     sendIdentityPacket();
 }