Sculpted Prims

I didn't see any posts here, sculpted prims are up on the preview grid.
Maya exporter
Blender Export Process

Nice!

Now if only I could use maya to actually do anything cool.
I'd like to see mobius strips and klein bottles! I'll pay premium for those textures.

Mobius strips are probably better done with standard prims than sculpties. I'm waiting for the non-sphere stitching options before having a go at a Klein bottle: I think the way to do that will be with two torus stitched prims.

Probably, but it'd still be a kick to have it as a sculpie.

I tried the Blender method, and all I ever get is pastel colored maps that make bizarre spiky cubes or tiny breadstick things in SL. Granted I always avoided Blender, due to its UI being very hard for me (Wings 3D forever, woo!), but I followed the instructions exactly, starting from a cylinder and everything. The only thing I didn't do was make a vase...Like I said, I don't like Blender ;P I planned on making the models in Wings, then exporting the mesh and rendering the sculpt map from Blender.

If someone has a few spare minutes, how bout writin a WYSIWYG sculpty editor?

Well...tried the sample texture maps and they seem pretty simple to use. Anyone know where to find those sample textures to apply to the maps that they are showing on the blog? Apple, banana, etc.?

The samples are in your Library inventory when you log into the beta...

And for those that would like to try something in PhotoShop
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make simple height maps

really?

I have the mobius strip done.

Couple of imbeddings of the projective plane (another non-orientable surface), here.
On the left is Steiner's Roman surface, then Boy's surface, then a couple of prototypes of it. Another view.

After a little experimentation, I've managed to make POV-Ray spit out some simple sculpt textures... but it's fairly limited in what it can do (sharply convex areas don't turn out very well, and undercuts are out of the question).

Basically I apply a texture with a color gradient along each of the axes, going from 0 in the appropriate channel at -0.5, through 255 at +0.5. Then I put a spherical camera at the center of the model, put a 100% reflective sphere around the model, and set the model to show up in reflections but be invisible to the camera itself. A really kludgy way to do it, but it still turned up some interesting results.

Awesome.
When sculpies come to the main grid I'll give you a poke.

I'm new to this whole thing and was wondering, can Lightwave can be used to create sculpted prims?

If you get bored with the standard textures you can always do what Ive been doing for laugh and dropping any old texture into the where you should have a sulptie texture.
you end up with ....um ....i think its been described as "vertex vomit" but some shapes are quite interesting. You can then use a proper sculptie texture as the colouring texture...increase the transparency to let the colours shine through then throw in a smooth animation ....the effect can be sorta pleasing.

Course.. you can always put in a photo of the real life you and see how SL interprets you in prim form as..... Hehe ...a replacement for numerology....and probably just as accurate

I reported this as [rt.lindenlab.com #844025]

Some sculptie textures exhibit an LOD bug where the sculptie reverts to a sphere at a near distance, but goes back to its correct shape at a mid to far distance.

For example, the Linden texture "Rounded_cube" in the Library.

I bumped into this last night when several of my textures from 3ds Max had this problem. I was generating the textures from a cylinder with its top and bottom cut out.

So, if you see behavior like this. It's probably a bug and not something you did wrong.

Got the Klein Bottle done myself yesterday. It's not a TRUE Klein Bottle, but the limits on the number of verts means I can't do both the "inside" and the "outside" so I just let it auto-connect (making a twist) right where it passes through itself.

To the Unknowing it looks like a perfect Kein.
UUID of Klein Bottle Texture (512x512, because I liked looking at the pretty colors)

e1a1e1e0-b622-ac04-1cb5-6a10be5a135a

they do know about the bug and acknowledge it. I can't figure why some have this problem and some don't. Last night 7 of them in a row had this problem. I tried all sorts of thing. scaling the object before export, moving it around in the projection map, rotating it at different angles all had the same behavior.

Is the Maya exporter for some specific version or require anything else to be installed first? I managed to get Maya 8.0 on Mac, but when I try to run the Sculpted prim script (I simply copy/pasted as it says and added it as a button to the shelf) and it gives me copyright info then the error:

// Error: 	if (size($parents)240!= 0) //
// Error: Syntax error //
// Error: 			(($shape240!= "") && (nodeType($shape) == "nurbsSurface"))) //
// Error: $shape240" is an undeclared variable. //
// Error: 			if ($i240!= size($tokens) - 2) //
// Error: $i240" is an undeclared variable. //

All I have in my scene is a simple NURBS sphere.

I'm still trying to get the design I want, but it's not going to much point if I can't export it anyway

What's worse is that none of the lines that are throwing up errors seem to be in the script!

[EDIT]
Nevermind, it seems the wiki's formatting of the script is seriously messed up, all the lines which have "240" in them have some kind of weird space, removing it and typing space myself then saving fixed the issue.

anyone know how to close a mesh? I have a mesh i'd like to convert to a sculpt but so far what I've got out look nothing like the mesh I started with.

I suspect that the problem is that the mesh I have (a freebie I found on the web) is actually hollow with a hole, but I don't know the various packages (I've tried Maya and Rhino) well enough to know how to turn this into a closed mesh, and the help files have not been errr helpful!

I think you're stuck. Best you can do is turn it into two meshs/prims such that each has 1/2 of the hole.
I.E. a sphere can be turned into a hollow shape easily, but you wouldn't be able to add a hole into that, but you could break it appart so that each half is hollow, but without a completel hole.

Sorry, i don't want the hole! I want to close the mesh and remove the hole!

i.e if i had half a hollow sphere turn it into a proper solid hemisphere - only the shape is much more complex, and i'm not really familiar with the packages (I was hoping I could just load the shape and run the script but no joy...)

By "closed mesh", they mean that it has to be a single polygonal hull with no leaks - in other words, it must have a continuous, unbroken outside surface.

The first thing you can do is to merge the vertices - use a radius of zero for this so that only those vertices that are precisely copositional will be merged. This will join your build into one continuous polygonal surface.

After that, you have to ensure that the object is "air tight", meaning that it must have a surface completely described by polygons - you can't have any polygons which do not share edges with other polygons. If your mesh has a hole in it, select the object - right-click and select "edge" mode - select one polygon edge of the hole you wish to fill, then from the "Edit Polygons" menu, select "Fill Hole". Works like magic.



I think your problem is more semantical than anything else, actually, from your description of it.

My apppologies for not understanding.

Sculpted Prim of solid of revolution texture Maker.

I make a program ROKURO for windows that makes tga file for Sculpted Prim of beta grid.

It makes only solid of revolution Prim without 3D tool (Maya or Blender).

You can download From
http://kanae.net/secondlife/rokuro01.zip

I post this information at texture Forum. but it might have been inapposite..
Please forgive my cross post.