Show Us Your Sculpties!

Those are cool. I especially like the wireframe one. Does Maya not have a feature similar to Max's projection modifier? It makes the UV mapping a non-issue.

i was thinking what could be used in an actual furniture, here is a little test.


8 prims,

That looks great Kyrah!

Primitar 2.0!

We've already got them; see Govindira Galatea's Pammies. Sculpties will make for even better ones, but they won't solve the real problems of integration with the avatar. Two big gotchas; prim attachments are affected different by lighting than skin is, and you can't wear normal clothing over prims.

With everyone working on their tools for sculpties I thought I might as well do a sculptie tool too

A simple hat for my furry. I didn't create, instead I converted an existing object.

Wow.

All of these are simply amazing!

Chip, those legs and torso's are stunning.

I love the imagination and creativity of the people in SL....that's what makes this place worthwhile.

~Ari

I have been experimenting with some terrain types these are all one prim sculpts.
Rock wall






These two are from a Bryce mesh I imported into blender then applied to a 50 meter huge
sphere prim.


And a simple pagoda thing I made as a first test of the new wings exporter.

The empty eye sockets and the way the neck was cut were a givaway but it's amazing how detailed the mesh looks.

hehe, yeah. As a first test I was quite amazed it came out looking as good as it did. Without the texture map it doesn't look anywhere near as good though.

Love seeing what everyone is doing. That hammer is great. Keep them coming!

Just a simple single-prim top hat.

Wynx, that is soooo adorable!


I asked this in another thread that everyone ignored:
/8/33/182826/1.html

The latest version of Maya has a tool called Transfer Polygon Attributes that sounds like this, but I don't actually have the latest version yet and can't check this myself.

9 days after buying Zbrush. And a big thankyou to Cindy Crabgrass for her converter utility. Maybe now I can give my sculpty obsession a rest and do some work.

If I knew the answer I'd tell ya, but my experience with Maya is limited to fiddling around a bit with the PLE a few years ago.

Another terrain experiment bryce mesh 2. This one actually came out right, the first bryce mesh has that huge point to it. Which although kind of cool looking it was unintentional.
I beleive that happens when there is a black area present on the rgb map sucks the values
to zero almost like a black hole, haha.

Chip,

That is incredible - I couldn't help but laugh to think that I'm not surprised that the originator of scarily realistic skins has now moved onto trafficking in body parts That is creepy and cool at the same time. I can't wait to see statues without the bumpy prim parts. Great job on the limbs

I have only played around a little. Continuing on the fruit theme, here is a strawberry:



This is a vase thing I did by drawing a cross section of it and then lathing it around to form the shape. I also scaled it to be huge - for reference, the strawberry in the previous picture is shown in the bottom right of this picture to show the difference in scale:



I can't take credit for this one, but it is my favorite thing I have seen from the preview grid - Logan Bauer created it:

5-10 minutes of tweaking NURBS sphere in Maya, added Prim Spheres & eye template.

Continuing with my terrain sculpt experiments, this time I went for some softer curves look.



This time I did not import a Bryce mesh but instead used a height map technique which is in
the Noobs to Pro blender tutorials.
What you see in the pics is 3 huge prims which is covering a space approx 4098m.
For scale my AV is standing on a 20x meter disc jutting out of the side of the hill.

So these were done completely in blender, also used the 'sculpt' tool which is sort of similar
to the Z brush effect, saved the mesh and brought it back in to use the Levitsky method to
bake the textures.

http://amandalevitsky.googlepages.com/sculptedprims
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Making_Landscapes_with_heightmaps

When used for "terrain", how well do sculpted prims, mega or not, handle being walked on? Are the "boundaries" of the sculpted prims recognized?

They won't handle it at all, sculpted prims currently appear as spheres the size of the bounding box to the physics engine.

I think collision for sculpties is calculated based on a bounding box and not the actual sculpt surface so the usefulness of sculpties for terrain will probably just be decorative. Infiniview, what has your experience been with it so far?

hehe, that was just a nice complex model that I had on hand. I'm not sure that I'll be moving into the sculpted body parts market. This will definitely lead to some great statuary though! That rose is beautiful. I'm actually excited about working with prims again.

For sculpted terrain, you could use invisible normal prims for collisions. So like, approximate the shape of the terrain with flats overlapping it, and give those collision prims a transparent texture.

This wouldn't be saving prims obviously, but rather allow you to make terrain bits that look however you want. As it is, I'm really excited about this trick for redoing the rocks and cliffs on my land. Although we've managed some neat stuff by torturing regular prims, sculpties are perfect for rock walls and boulders.

oo, and water! Sculpted prims could make some awesome rivers and waterfalls!