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Important:Sculpted prims | Jpg-2000 that Linden use: Deforms prims Problem & Solution

Cel Edman
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06-04-2007 13:31
Important I guess, for all people atm that making sculpted prims.

I`m working on a new tool at the moment for my next version of sculptypaint.
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Yesterday, and today.. I checked my own sculpt-previewer and the sculpt preview in second life. flawless...
But when I actually imported my 64*64 image in second life, the thing really looks like a mess.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~elout/sculptpaint/clueless4june2007.jpg

Next I scaled the same 64*64 image to 256*256 (nearest neighbor, no blur in photoshop). And use this 256*256 image as a sculpted prim.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~elout/sculptpaint/solution4june2007.jpg

So finally after banging my head to the wall for some time, rewriting my code etc. For proper sculpt results. Scale the thing Up 128*128 | 256*256 etc, so your sculpted prim wont get hurt by the jpeg2000 compression!

I guess sculpted prims still get shown now at 64*64 data. But if you scale up the sculpt-image, you wont get hurt by the nasty compression artifacts.
2k Suisei
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06-04-2007 14:10
Yep. It's quite a well known problem.

But be patient. LL plan to disable compression in the year 2020.

Just be patient, folks!
Cottonteil Muromachi
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06-04-2007 15:02
From: 2k Suisei
LL plan to disable compression in the year 2020.


The above plans have been detailed in the whitepapers right here.

http://www.pmo.gov.my/website/webdb.nsf/vALLDOC/BA7051FF90767AD848256E84003129CA
Shack Dougall
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06-04-2007 16:50
From: 2k Suisei

But be patient. LL plan to disable compression in the year 2020.


Just after Havok 2 is integrated into SL and a month before Havok 18 is released.
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010000100111001001100001011011 Omlet
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06-04-2007 18:04
From: Shack Dougall
Just after Havok 2 is integrated into SL and a month before Havok 18 is released.


Priceless.
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Blakar Ogre
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06-05-2007 01:13
Vote on JIRA for VWR-866 in order to give this more attention at LL.

While the advise of making textures larger is valid it does result in lots of wasted memory. And as soon as LL turns of compression for 64x64 the 128x128 and above will probably be interpolated more aggressively to stop wasting as much memory.
Thunderclap Morgridge
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06-05-2007 07:03
Voted. Hell, I remade my shoe in 128x127 and posted the sphere in the other thread. Oh well 'c'est la deuxième vie'. (that's 2nd life):D
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06-05-2007 11:40
I export to .tga from maya at 64x64 and I don't see any problems after uploading.