Sculpty exporter for Wings 3D

Romer,

I'd suggest finding a formal class for Wings 3D. A thread in a forum is not likely going to present you with a focused curriculum. Its very existence is ad hoc.

When i try and extract the beam file, i get an error message saying the file is corrupt. Can anyone help me out here?

delete the zip you downloaded and and redownload

Hey folks! Quick question with regards to Wings 3d and Rokuro Pro.

For a long time I've been using the standard free version of Rokuro to make basic shapes, then import than into wings 3d for editing. I recently upgraded to Rokuro Pro. The new version exports as a TGA or Obj file. The Obj file, imports perfectly into Wings, but won't export. I get the age old unsupported mesh size error. Nope, I didn't use any tools, I didn't even edit the sculpt. The TGA, when converted to BMP won't even import into Wings.

I've contacted the seller of Rokuro, but he/she has yet to comment and from my previous contact with him/her I don't think deliberations will be successful.

Has anyone managed to use Rokuro Pro and Wings? Could anyone with some technical savvy come up with a way of making it work? I'd be in your debt!

Thanks in advance.


*EDIT*

I have found that if I open the TGA with photoshop, then copy paste it into standard ms paint, then save it as a BMP it will import into Wings just fine, but still won't export. Unsupported mesh size.

*EDIT EDIT*

More messing. I found that you have to export the TGA in 64x64 and then convert to BMP using MS Paint. Then you can export and import using Wings. It seems that Wings does not properly support importing sculpt maps greater than 64x64. The fact it took me ages to figure that out was a pain lol!

Any chance of a fix/update? I'd love to be able to import higher resolution sculpty maps.

Thanks!

I have had this happen as well.

I suggest a easier method.

Upload the texture you made in Rokuro pro into SculptySpace.

as long as the texture adheres to the 64x64 or 128x128 or whatever the other sizes are it will upload it.

then resave the texture or export the obj.

with it.

I tried sculptyspace and it's rather nice! The camera controls for me are entirely counter intuitive. I'd prefer to see them a little closer to those of SL, since most users will be coming from there I'd of thought. Still, I liked it, has real promise!

Sculpty space is good. but i would love to see a sculpty previewer that allowd you to choose the background color and have quick refresh buttons for both sculpt texture and regular texture.

anyone know of a previewer with these options?

Hi to you all!
I'm a real newby in sculpting, but I tried Wings 3D and it seems to work quite well in doing the job... The problems arises in exporting the shapes in .bmp file. I installed the plug-in and it turns out that it works only if I start the project from the templates provided with it - is it right?
Well, now I need to start from a prism shape (even a cube could work well) but it seems there are no such templates available (only spheres, a torus, a flat square and a cylinder)... What can I do?

Dennis,

Another option, besides starting with one of the templates, is to import an existing scultpy. If you look around in-world, the SL Wiki or in SLStreet, I would guess you could find a starting shape you liked for free or cheap.

But the better time investment would be to learn how to make it yourself using Wings. For example, if you start with the sphere, choose vertex mode, select a pole and press + a few times, you'll end up with a select of a concentric circle of vertices. Change to face mode and right click to bring up the menu of face operations. Select flatten/normal and you will have created the first of your six faces. The only other thing you need to learn are the various techniques for making selections, and you'll want to master those regardless of what you want to do with Wings.

Have fun!

Heyla!

The first time I attempted to download the zip files, I got a message that the zip files were corrupted. So, I deleted them and redownloaded them, again. I was able to open the zip files, but for some reason, every time I try to extract them, I get an "unspecified error" message, and the files simply fail to extract. I've deleted and downloaded these files several times, with the same results. Is there another place where I may get these files?

Thanks for the help!
Keeper S. Karu (KeeperS Karu)

Edit: I found an alternate site to download from a few pages back. It's remarkable what one could discover when one takes the time to read!

Zip files appear corrupted--will not unzip most files--particularly the beam file in zip 1

Hehe--should have gone to the end of the thread--saw the post and went a few pages back--downloaded from pounceworks fine.

Those file downloads are stupid and broken! pls fix I cannot use wings 3d stuff for sl now

You can download the plug-in directly from PK Pounceworks via the link below.

http://pkpounceworks.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=28&func=fileinfo&id=119

what a kind request for the first post...
sorry for spamming the forum but sometimes I can't hold back!

you could also choose to look for it on google first... i just downloaded it, it works great!

I really want to start using Wings 3D for SL, but I can't....do much yet

I got zip part one (last link on this thread) to extract with winzip with no errors and it opens in Wings. However the rest of the zips at the beginning of this thread ALL have errors when I try to extract them (no matter how many times I redownload them)..
That leaves me with only the sphere templates to use in wings 3D.

Could someone PLEASE post links to good zips without corruptions when you try to extract the zips.




...Ok I after doing a little more searching I found a link for working files. I'll post the first part here again. They contain the beam file to make Wings 3D work for SL and the sphere templates.
http://pkpounceworks.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=28&func=fileinfo&id=119

Here is the URL for the plane, cylinder and torus templates
http://pkpounceworks.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=28&func=startdown&id=120

And here is the URL for the SL Wiki on Wings 3D for SL. The links for the above are also on this page.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Wings_3D_Exporter


Is there a cube template with multiple vertices? That would be nice for making things starting from a cube quickly.

See posts 651 and 652, above. Read some of the other recent posts, too. You might find something of interest.

hi ppl , how do i upload a sculpty with wings ? cuz i cant upload .wings files

Yes, SL doesn't know anything about .wings files, which are Wings' native format. You need to export your model as a sculpty bitmap. I suggest you start with the SL Wiki: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Wings_3D. There are all sorts of tutorials and other resources listed there.

Have fun.

Hi,
I am having problems with the appearance of my sculpties in SL. Im using Wings 3D and your exporter. I have tried all the supplied templates and exported in all formats of the bmp mapping with no real success. Everything appears fine in wings 3D. the export works fine with no errors, but when I upload to SL and create the sculptured object it appears the mesh is very distorted. Perhaps there is some setting I have overlooked for Wings 3D or is there an exporter setting i need to set ? here are a few screenies.. ANY help would be greatly appreciated..

two views of object in Wings 3D.





and the final results in SL

Your results look pretty typical for the sculpty process which does not give perfect precision.

I suggest that you import your sculpt map back into wings to see how well the exporter is handling your model.

I like to take the map exported from wings into Sculptypaint (which is also freeware) and do one or more iterations of smoothing. You will lose some sharpness but perhaps get a sculptie that is more pleasing to look at.

I do more organic shapes and less sharp edges with my sculpties so loss of precision is less of an issue for me.

Those who do more geometric shapes like yours may have ideas of how to tweak your model in wings to get a cleaner sculptie.

As Sylvia said, there is a certain amount of imprecision inherent in scultpies. But to me, it looks like the SL version suffers from JPEG compression artifacts, which will occur if you don't take care when bringing the bitmap into SL. When you imported into SL, did you check the single layer lossless option? You should.

Whenever you want to distinguish between loss of precision due to conversion into the sculpty fotmat (which happens when you export from Wings) and loss of precision due to upload problems (which can occur when you import into SL), do as Sylvia suggests and inport the bmp file you exported back into Wings. You'll find that vertices will have been moved a bit, because they can only have one of 256 possible values in each dimension. But the overall model won''t be distorted as much as you're seeing in the SL screenshot.

Hi,

Thanks for your replies,, I did not have the option " use lossless compression " checked when uploading to SL. When I checked it the sculpture appeared perfect with no distortion.. Thanks again your your quick reply.. and thanks much for your work on the plugin..I know how much work goes into these projects, as I have a few freeware visual C++ utilitys out there too.

When I try to extract the wpc_sculpty.beam file from the first zip file I get a compression error message. Has this file, perhaps, gotten corrupt over time? Is anyone else having difficuties unzipping files from this first zip file?

Thanks!
Bartiloux Desmoulins