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Blender Mirror question

Shaden Sura
Registered User
Join date: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 68
07-24-2009 19:29
Hello I was wondering is possible to to divide a mirror sculpt in two separated sculpts?
Gaia Clary
mesh weaver
Join date: 30 May 2007
Posts: 884
07-25-2009 01:35
Yes, you can, but what is the exact problem ?

Do you have a sculpt wich is mirrored along a plane and you want to cut it into 2 separate sculpties? As long as the mirror-plane is y-z it is easy...:

first take care that multires or subsurf are applied. Then...

- go to front view
- go to edit mode
- use face select mode
- grab the left half (or the right half) of your sculpty
- press the "p" key (separate selected)
- now you have created 2 half sculpts.

for each of them do (all in the UV editor):

- go to the UV editor. you will see that only half of the mesh points are left.
- press "a" to select all mesh points.
- move the mesh points along x into the center
- now scale along x, until the mesh covers the whole square again. use layout clipped to image size and snap to pixels.
- bake the sculptie.

Now you get the first "half sculptie". do the same with the other side of your sculpt.
and you are done.

is it that what you asked for ?

Or you want a mirror of an existing sculpt ? Or you have been using the mirror modifier and now want to get the "virtual half" as separate object ? Or ... ?
Shaden Sura
Registered User
Join date: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 68
07-25-2009 06:10
thx for the tip, what I want to do is I need to duplicate a Sculpt but the
what I need is to duplicate an sculpt and that the result is equal to the origial but inverse, I was using the mirror modifier to do this, but I don't know is there other way to do this.
Gaia Clary
mesh weaver
Join date: 30 May 2007
Posts: 884
07-25-2009 12:57
in edit mode:

m x mirrors along the z-y plane
m y mirrors along the z-x plane
m z mirrors along the x-y plane

or scale with a factor of -1:

s x -1 mirrors along the z-y plane
s y -1 mirrors along the z-x plane
s z -1 mirrors along the x-y plane

cheers,
Gaia