OBJ->SL Sculpted prim importer

Work in progress...

Hey nice work this looks pretty sleek. I am not completely clear what it is, is it like a
universal obj. based exporter?

Instead of going through the process to create sculpt map exports from any number of 3D studios and modelers, you can just export the OBJ file from the modeler. OBJ file is very common and many modelers support it. That lets you use your favorite 3D modeler and not have to worry about making the sculpt map image inbetween.

Just Click on File->Upload Image... select OBJ file... done

We definitely need more of these. I've written one myself, but it's far too flakey to release into the wild. I'd be flooded with questions for the rest of my life!

Mine maps the vertices directly. I know some people have chosen a more generalized and sophisticated route for mapping. But I really need as much control as possible.

How is yours gonna work, Dzonatas?.

...and let me know if you get stuck with anything. I'm a totally crap programmer. But through persistence and patience alone, I managed to get over the hurdles. Although I did cheat on some of the hurdles by just walking around them.

Oooh! You mean you've actually added it to the SL client?

Quite indeed!

Awesome!

I did wonder if LL would end up doing this. It does seem the smartest way. I seriously doubt that an in-world sculpty editor would be able to give us all the features we need, like symmetry and masking etc.

I just hope LL thinks the same and adds your importer to the official client!.

Sheesh. Why didn't Linden Labs just do it this way in the first place. Duh!

Hey, I would love to have a copy and I promise I won't bother about it either. Because some of my old designs need a program that can map verticies directly. So email to thunderclap@ gmail.com
and thanks.

As irritated as NURBs make me, I'd rather work with OBJ. Let us know when it's available, and good work!

Woot!

Every bit helps. Thank you. I'll see if I can knudge knudge... =)

I'd be quite interested in seeing how this works. Right now I use Cindy Crabgrass' obj2sculpt program which works, but I still need to select the regions of the sculpt map that aren't noise and solidify them in Photoshop. It works, but its an extra step I could do without. I look forward to hearing more.

The only reason I can think LL has not done this. Is to cut done on Bug reports. hehe. I mean people will be selecting any only OBJ file hitting up load. then is looks like garbage then bug reporting that is it broken. One less system for them to keep working.

Wait, so no need to install anything? Or do we have to use First look? Sorry, I'm just confused on how you added it to the client. :/

The regions that arent noise?
i admit i having a problem getting the obj2sculpt to work and this may be it.

My process is:

Model
export model as obj
drop obj onto obj2sculpt

preview. . .and WHAM it never works right.

So there is either an issue at the modeling stage or at the Photoshop resizing stage as i have never heard/read to solidify regions of noise. . .

can someone point me the right direction?

Mace, what you need to do is open the sculpt texture in Photoshop and then you will notice that its speckled with noise that looks like inverted Ls. Use the select tool to select all that noise (RGB select), then invert it so the coloured parts are selected. Copy that selection, then paste it as a new layer. You then want to use the free plugin Solidify by Flaming Pear. Once you have a nice texture with no holes your last step before saving is to flip it horizontally. If you do not flip the image your sculpty will be inside out. You may now import your texture.

Here is were you can vote for the feature to import OBJ models directly into Second life

OBJ importer: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1110


Also check out:

3DM importer: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-858

and:

3DS importer: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1111

Voted

Only seven votes right now, it needs more. =)

I posted the source:

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1110

If I get some more votes on it, I'll put up a link where you can download an executable.

Woot! This gained like 6 votes since yesterday! Everybody tell your friends because I'm going to go ahead and set aside some of my other projects to personally work on this!

Tell your friends to vote!!!

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1110

Since I got votes for the in-world OBJ importer, here is a binary to try it out:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/oslcc/slviewer-1.17.0.12.VWR-1110.zip?use_mirror=osdn

It currently works with 64x63 mesh spheres created by any modeler exported as an OBJ file. Here are the instructions for Windows:

1) Copy C:\Program Files\SecondLife to you Desktop
2) Put the SecondLife-1.17.0.12.VWR-1110.exe into the SecondLife folder you just put on the desktop.
3) Put the file "Beta Test SecondLife-1.17.0.12.VWR-1110.exe" into the same SecondLife folder.
4) Click on the shortcut (you just moved) in the same SecondLife folder
5) Log In
6) Click on File->Upload Image
7) Find an OBJ file made by your modeler
Select it
9) If it converted fine, you will see the sculpt map.
10) Select "Sculpted Prim" to preview

Just wanted to chime in with my congratulations. I fell off the map some months ago when I moved to Tampa for my new job. Unfortunately, my bandwidth situation there is such that I cannot log into SL for more than a few minutes before losing connection, which has left my tools to stagnate.

I'm very glad to hear this has been made in my absence, as I was approached by quite a few people about adding this to my Blender tool. Keep up the good work.

Thank you!

I'm about ready to release the next little patch that'll let everyone upload to the beta grid. That way it can be tested more in depth as features are added.

While on the beta grid, it can also still be used as a tool to convert OBJ files to sculpt maps. That would be to import the OBJ file, upload the image, and then download the image. That'll also give a chance to further preview the sculpties in-(beta)world before you bring them into the main grid. =)

Remember to vote!

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1110

Looks like 1.18 has a reproducible error in LLTemplateMessageBuilder::buildMessage(), which is not related to the sculptie import code.

LLTemplateMessageBuilder::buildMessage() is one of the pieces of code changed by Lindens between 1.17 and 1.18.

That error won't let everyone log in, so I'll hold off on the next update to OBJ import until this other one is fixed.

This tool gets my official stamp of approval! Good job! ^_-