Show Us Your Sculpties!

You don't need a sphere to make a spherical object You can still use a cylinder. (or rather, a sphere with the poles deleted and the uvs stretched to cover the full uvspace) I've in fact made a cylindrical sphere that works perfectly fine to make balls.

My question to those who use spheres exclusively - how do you manage to make a torus out of a sphere Guess you can't make doughnuts Also with the spheres in Modo, though I never use spheres (they uvmap a bit crappily at the poles in the best of circumstances) - did you check linear uvs by chance when subdividing ... that fixes most distortion trouble.

hehe. okay, you got me there

Here is a work in progress.. some sports shoes based on my favorite shoe of all time, the Air Jordan IV.

Sculpted and textured in Blender.


-whyroc

mmmmm.....sculpty donut.....


not spheres, though. Torus sculpty made in Zbrush.

grin. look ma, no spheres

I prefer to stick to primitives that have a perfectly square uvmap, and mesh spheres don't have a square uvmap. I switched away from spheres a while back, as soon as I developed my Carrara baking process actually, and the fate was really sealed once they came out with alternate topology. (Carrara is still my general method to bake sculpt maps, though I use Modo sometimes too now, but Carrara still does some wee hacks that the Modo process doesn't so well ... so it depends.)

Spheres have zigzags along two edges of their uvmaps, that have to be filled in for a mesh sculpt bake, and I find the solidify filter method in PS isnt as exact as just sizing those edge rows at the poles to a point, and since I am *always* using subdivision surfaces - I find that perfect square uvmaps do far better with more precision. So I am always either using a torus, plane, open cylinder, or a sphere mesh that's had its poles lopped off.

Wow, some brilliant sculpts in here, hours and hours of excellent work. Well done to all.

Here's some of the sculpts I've made :

for the nature-lovers, some fish that swim pretty well and jump too (1prim sculpt + 1 prim anim fins) ...
http://forums.secondlife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45988&stc=1
fish_main.jpg

A sculpted Leatherback Turtle I'm still working on the swim scripts for (5 sculpted prims for swimming animation) ...
http://forums.secondlife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45989&stc=1
Leatherback.JPG
(with a sunken sculpted rowing boat behind).


Then for the sailors, heres a 1 prim RIB on the back of my cat ...
http://forums.secondlife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45990&stc=1
RIB.JPG

and last, I decided to try build a car (I'm on prim 26 atm so hopefully can keep it under 30), so for the technically inclined ...

http://forums.secondlife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45991&stc=1
CarreraGT_11Feb_004.JPG

http://forums.secondlife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=45992&stc=1
CarreraGT_11Feb_014.JPG


... the sculpt rendering issues get to me though, specially on the car because of the maxed detail - on these pics its not quite properly rendered. Guess its my sim thats part of the problem - low prim sim and maxed out. I often work at sandboxes to see it better.

Sharpen those scalpels, and enjoy the sculpting

Calla lilies.

I just spent a week on sculpted chains x.x They have up to 4 links per prim for the high detailed version, and up to 8 for the low detail version.

Have some work in progress:






This one I might actually finish.
See that's the thing about sculpties. There's lots of ways to approach a project, and before you're even halfway through you realize that you could've done much better with what you learned since then XD

Wow! I love it Blake! Awsome

Nice work on those chains. Very clever to get 4 or 8 links per prim.

Just finished a pair of wearable sculpted feet.

http://charlotdickins.wordpress.com/

Hey Charlot -- they look just like mine LOL. Nice work

One sculptie, two spheres and a true Blender head

The head of my new Avatar, which takes up entirely too much of my time. Sculpties and texture baking in Maya with Turtle.

Oh, and I checked: Although the hair and mane are indeed sculpties, the avatar doesn't seem to impact the framerate, even on low spec machines. Since they're small sculpties, the LOD obviously takes care for them efficiently.

Cheers,
Drake / Leben

Wonderful, Drake, simply wonderful. The snuzzle looks almost exactly like my RL doggie's honker. (to use the technical terms).

/me watches the bar being raised a bit

And while there's been an awful lot of discussion on sculpts impacting the frame rate, if you are using that hair in place of several twisted torii, I suspect you come out ahead.

Looking amazing Leben - its such beautiful work in person - I cant wait to see the finished project!

The fur is divine btw, so lifelike.

Thanks, guys

Here's a full-body shot:

http://forum.furbase.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=23058

From a sculpty viewpoint, the hind paws may also be interesting.

Wow, that is simply amazing, very great work!

Well, tough act to follow as they say, but here is a rough draught Shire Horse (couldn't resist the pun):



15 prims, so far and still needs some touch up work before I start trying to animate it. The tack and eyes will probably become individual prims--I don't quite care for the painted on look, but it might make a nice low prim model for my porch. Nothing quite says "I have a Shire Horse on my porch" like having a Shire Horse on one's porch.

Um. I'm sorry, that made more sense before I said it....

Today i've made this light blue sculpty shoe.
Its all together 6 prims. 5 prims for bootlace & flap and 1 for the sculpty.
Will be fun to make some nice textures for! ))

Finished some trees recently. Being used in some new Caledon sims and a Middle Earth sim cluster. Two prims each, 8 branches and 24 alpha planes per tree.



They have seasonal textures that change on touch. Fall leaves, bare branches, snow etc.

Here's a quick proof of concept I made. Basically copy/dragging a bunch of trees so fill a sim without really adjusting position.







And yes, you can fill a sim densely with these without killing framerates

New building

Blog;
http://yabusaka.blogspot.com/

Btw, Aminom, your trees are being discussed here:

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