Special Sculptie (2 prims crossed) how can i figure it out ..

Hello everyone , i am a german guy , so plz be peacefull with me, about my really bad englsh but i need Help !

i had yesterday an idea, to make a sculptie for me. ill work with sculptypaint and Blender ...im no perfect but im learning still everyday , and now ill try too make a sculptie , but i cant figure out how i can it realize ..

ill need 2 Prims Crossed in One Prim like this --> + (in fires or plants you can see it daily)
but i cant figure out how i can do that , the ways ill have it tried, the prim looks good, but the Texture ill put n it looks like shit ... ill think i musst beginn with a Cylinder ? anyone can help me out, to find a way thank you that would be really nice !

http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kreuzun4.jpg

greetings
Micha

creating a 2 in one prim is tricky because you need to do what is known as vertex mashing.

pinching is one of these tricks.

however
the shape you wish looks like it can be easily done with a cube that is steched in one direction with some verts uselected fro mthe middle of the top and bottom.
this will leave a small border you can pinch down into a cube form again and properly scale to shape.

also

you will need to make a uvmap of the sculpty you wish to use so the texture is properly displayed on the texture

The problem is with keeping the edges on each plate. That will give texture jumps as the LOD changes. To avoid this you should use a 8 X , 8 Y and 0 Multires Cylinder to create the sculptie. Select every other column of vertice and scale them on x and y to 0 (s SHIFT z 0 ). Add a 2 level subsurf modifier with simple subdivision and bake the sculptie. You should then be able to use a normal texture with 4 X repeats. The only problem will be at the lowest LOD, where only 6 vertices are used as that can't represent the cross shape.

thank you all for the hints, i will try it in the Evening ...
i am very hopefull )

the only thing ill have no understand good (sry my english isnt that best ( ):



kann you talk me this better plz thank you


greetings
Micha

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Subsurf_Modifier

On the dialog picture there, those are the settings you need except for "Catmull Clark" which should read "Simple Subdiv"

Very much thanks, now i have my 1 Prim fires, in 2 variants with and without subsurf

Great, Great, Great Help for me !!!!!!!!
THANK YOU !

Greetings
Micha